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Amid growing controversy over a Baltimore County Council vote in November 2024 that would double pensions for five of its seven members, two of them proposed legislation to roll that decision back.

Here are some fun and informative things to do in Baltimore County for the week ending March 4.

Baltimore Police fatally shot a 37-year-old man who officials say was armed in the 2800 block of Pelham Avenue on Tuesday evening.

The Howard County Library System has quietly terminated 55 support staffers who primarily stack shelves, drawing a sharp rebuke from the system’s employees union.

Maryland State Police are searching for a suspect they say shot at a trooper during a traffic stop early Tuesday in Baltimore.

An Anne Arundel Community College student has been arrested after police say he installed a camera on a toilet in a women’s bathroom at the Arnold campus and recorded at least eight females.

Maryland’s ratepayer advocate and its Senate president want to know: How much electricity does South Baltimore really need?

Famed composer and Baltimore native Philip Glass pulled his symphony from the Kennedy Center in protest of Donald Trump. Now, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will perform “Lincoln” in 2027.

COLUMN | The teenage driver killed last month in a fiery Howard County crash was at least the 31st person in Maryland to die in a police-related accident in the past five years. Almost all were killed when a driver fled from flashing lights.

A nor’easter hit Maryland unevenly on Sunday night, leaving parts of the state with more than a foot of snow and some counties with just a few inches, according to the National Weather Service.

Marylanders across the state awoke on Monday to a blanket of snow after a nor’easter traveled through the region overnight.

Virtual school wasn’t an option then.

Berlin, Maryland, was without power after a powerful nor’easter dumped snow across the region.

Steve McIntire purchased the church building and parsonage for $1.1 million. He’ll renovate and sell the parsonage as a home and hopes for a community center at the church.

Though many major roadways appear to be clear, caution is still necessary when traveling.

A storm forecasters predict will dump 3-6 inches of snow across parts of Maryland is expected to disrupt schools, universities and other essential services.

BGE expects to spend more than half a billion dollars constructing electrical infrastructure for Baltimore Peninsula, a new document shows.

As a widow, I understand loneliness and the yearning for true, deep connection, but I just don’t believe that can exist with what is essentially a robot.

The district had initially called for a two-hour delay, but “greater-than-expected accumulation ... made it unsafe to open schools, even with a delay."

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore warned of poor travel conditions and life-threatening conditions as a winter storm sweeping the East Coast threatened to bring inches of snow and blizzard conditions to some parts of the state.