Community issues

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.

Shuttle buses will step in to transport riders at Light Rail stops between Falls Road and Camden Station this weekend due to ongoing Amtrak construction on the future Frederick Douglass Tunnel.

Melton died June 25th after he was detained by Baltimore Police during a mental health crisis in West Baltimore.

Baltimore County residents rallied in Towson to support Councilman Izzy Patoka’s bills for immigrant protection ahead of a council work session Tuesday evening.

A driver died after colliding with a tree overnight Wednesday near the intersection of Bethesda Church Road and Johnson Drive in Damascus, Montgomery County police said.

This week, we’re bringing you a series of events to break your cabin fever in Baltimore County and make it through one of winter’s longest months.

The Yemeni coffee trend has come to Perry Hall.

Street parking around the rest of Annapolis remains accessible, though is likely to become scarcer with the start of the legislative session Wednesday.

The University of Maryland Medical System is steering people to urgent care instead of hospitals. At urgent care centers, this flu season has been a doozy.

A fixture in Baltimore trivia will advance to the quarterfinals of the Tournament of Champions on “Jeopardy!” after a landslide victory Tuesday night that won him $40,000.

Nonstop flights to seven new destinations are slated to take off at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport throughout 2026, landing at destinations from the West Coast to the Caribbean.

Maria Luisa Alvarez, 20, of Lanham, pleaded guilty to negligent manslaughter by motor vehicle in November. Boris Josue Bonilla of Rockville, 30, Alvarez’s front-seat passenger, died on the Inner Loop of the Beltway in 2024.

Anne Arundel County police are investigating after a man reportedly asked middle school students to get into his car as they waited for their bus Monday morning at Crofton Elementary School.