Community issues

The Mimi DiPietro Skating Center in Patterson Park temporarily reopens on Saturday, after it was shut down for repairs in November, according to its website.

A sprawling betting scheme to rig NCAA and Chinese Basketball Association games ensnared 26 people, including more than a dozen college basketball players who tried to fix games as recently as last season, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

Pride Center of Maryland is one of thousands of groups nationwide that reportedly received letters late Tuesday from the Trump administration notifying them that their mental health and addiction grants had been terminated, effective immediately.

Davis, 34, stood trial four times in for a deadly shooting that he always maintained that he did not commit.

Howard County’s General Assembly delegation is finalizing its list of local bills to be introduced in the 2026 session. Of the dozen bills proposed, five touch on public education.

It’s too early to tell for sure whether the snow will stick, according to the National Weather Service, but it’s going to be plenty cold.

Brent Burkhardt, a lifelong Marylander and well-known public relations professional who enjoyed traveling and crabbing, died Dec. 29 of brain cancer. He was 63.

Catherine Barney pleaded guilty for threatening to blow up Baltimore City Hall over water shut-offs.

The Baltimore City school board voted Wednesday to close its only all-boys public school, Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys, while putting off decisions on two other proposed school closures.

Here are seven things to do in Howard County to ward off the midwinter blues from Jan. 15-21.

Maryland has done its best to minimize the impacts of lapsing federal subsidies by providing its own, and early numbers suggest that may help retain enrollees.

I never stopped wearing a mask anywhere people were going to breathe on me, or where I could breathe on them.

Exelon and Constellation are among the state’s top campaign donors — the second and third biggest, according to campaign finance records.

Lakia Stevenson pleaded guilty to failing to immediately stop at the scene of an accident involving bodily injury and related crimes in the hit-and-run that injured Baltimore Police Officer Jordan Brandner.

Baltimore magazine’s president is stepping down and its owner, comic book magnate Steve Geppi, will soon be more involved with the publication.

Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman said ICE enforcement makes “communities less safe” and that agents are detaining “people who make our communities better.”

A teenage girl was killed in a Silver Spring vehicle collision Wednesday morning, Montgomery County Police said.

Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins plans to keep working with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, even in light of the killing of an American citizen by an ICE agent.

The incident took place at a SWAT team holiday party at the Admiral’s Cup saloon in Baltimore City.

In Maryland, anyone can seek criminal charges on their own without input from police or prosecutors by going before a district court commissioner, a judicial officer who is not required to have a law degree.