Community issues

Ruth Meeron, one of Maryland’s first female contractors, died Jan. 6 at age 93.

The fines were given between Feb. 2 and Feb. 5, officials said.

A 16-year-old Baltimore County student was arrested during Friday’s student-led ICE protests, Baltimore County Police confirmed.

A relative picking up a student dropped the firearm, police said.

Police said Allen Michael McFadden, 34, assaulted a woman taking out the trash at the Heritage Overlook housing complex in Glen Burnie.

Winds could gust as high as 60 mph Saturday afternoon.

A Halethorpe woman charged with 328 counts of animal abuse a year ago is taking a role in finding homes for the dogs, cats, birds and reptiles that prosecutors say were harmed in her care.

The Super Bowl is the one of the biggest days for carryout. Here are some of the best spots for football food in Baltimore.

The National Aquarium is rehabilitating dozens of cold-stunned turtles, and it named them after Baltimore neighborhoods.

While much of the Chesapeake Bay is frozen over, watermen, cargo ships and emergency responders have places to be, and islanders on Smith and Tangier need food and supplies. That’s where Maryland’s two icebreakers — the A.V. Sandusky and the Eddie Somers — come in, clearing channels up and down the bay like giant snowplows.

Around two dozen high schools and middle schools in Baltimore County participated in Friday’s walkouts, but an hour before they began, Baltimore County Public Schools issued a 12:30 p.m. districtwide dismissal for “impending inclement weather.”

Nearly two months after an explosive report called for the resignation of senior officials at Greater Grace World Outreach, the evangelical church’s elders issued a response that offered no concrete plans for a leadership change.

Roger Myers, 61, of Towson, had been charged in Baltimore County Circuit Court with sexual abuse of a minor, third- and fourth-degree sex offense and second-degree assault.

A 59-year-old man died Friday morning from injuries he suffered in a Halethorpe house fire this week.

Nelvis Gonzalez Prudencio of Germantown was arrested at Dulles Airport for allegedly sexually abusing a child.

Boulders and other large rocks are blocking repair crews’ access to the collapsed DC Water sewer pipeline.

Montgomery County Police are searching for a vandalism suspect who damaged a Rockville day care in January.

Damreum Burroughs, 47, of Southwest Baltimore, pleaded guilty in Baltimore Circuit Court to accessory after the fact to first-degree murder.

Saks Global is closing its discount stores as it undergoes bankruptcy proceedings. Two of those stores are in Maryland.

Jackson Alexander Garcia and Malik Jefferson had their 2022 murder convictions overturned by the state’s appellate court.