Community issues

The teen who was shot at Wootton High School on Monday was bullied, his mother said.

Police are investigating after a 48-year-old man died a week after being struck by a vehicle along Baltimore National Pike near Ingleside Avenue, authorities announced Wednesday.

Bicycle advocates deliver an unequivocal message to transportation officials at a Tuesday meeting about plans for a new Bay Bridge.

A Maryland appeals court ruled that Dr. Gregory Branch was improperly removed from his job as county health officer.

The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport.

Baltimore County Councilman Wade Kach said he regrets missing meetings, but added: “If I thought for one minute that I was shortchanging my constituents in my district, I would resign.”

The Wilde Lake Village board chair canceled another public meeting, so Columbia residents held their own.

Whether it’s an evening of medicinal self-care, Girl Scout Cookie and tiki drink indulgence, or immersing yourself in the arts, there’s an event worth attending coming up.

Jordan Adams, 29, of Windsor Mill, had been charged in Baltimore County Circuit Court with sexual abuse of a minor and second-degree assault.

A Maryland lawmaker submitted BGE’s controversial proposal in the final hours before a procedural deadline.

A defendant was arrested in the death of a Gaithersburg man whose body was found in a Germantown creek in 2023.

A group of Buddhist monks whose monthslong walk took them 2,300 miles from Texas to Washington, D.C., are extending their peaceful journey to Maryland’s capital Thursday.

Circuit Judge Althea Handy on Feb. 2 issued an arrest warrant for Gervonta “Tank” Davis, 31, now of Parkland, Florida, on allegations that he violated his probation.

Dejuan Cole, 20, of Fallstaff, was sentenced to life in prison, with all but 30 years suspended, plus five years’ probation.

Authorities investigating the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie released the first surveillance images Tuesday showing a masked person on her porch the night she went missing.

Alexander Stephenson, 53, of Ellicott City, was in custody on a charge of violating a protective order less than four hours before the killing.

A 16-year-old student has been charged as an adult in Monday’s Wootton High School shooting, including attempted second-degree murder.

Washington County commissioners declared support for the conversion of a sprawling warehouse outside Hagerstown into a proposed federal immigration detention facility on Tuesday.

A student was shot at Thomas S. Wootton High School in Rockville, Montgomery County Police said Monday.

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