Community issues

Little more than a week into 2026, the deaths of Nikitha Godishala, Venkata Asha Appana and Krishna Kishore Kotikalapudi have stunned Howard County’s growing Indian community.

Federal officials changed their account of the Christmas Eve shooting by ICE agents in Glen Burnie.

James Corson, a two-time “Jeopardy!” winner who works as a nuclear engineer in Frederick, was knocked out of the tournament of champions after a spelling error during Friday’s episode.

Baltimore Police Officer Curlon Edwards, who had been suspended without pay, was terminated after his sentencing on Friday.

Jesica Evelin Argueta of Silver Spring turned herself in Tuesday on an arrest warrant that charged her with manslaughter by vehicle due to gross negligence and related traffic offenses.

The Macy’s at Marley Station Mall in Glen Burnie is set to close “soon,” according to the department store’s website.

Dozens of clinicians and their patients are scrambling after the abrupt closure last week of The Chesapeake Center, a nationally known Bethesda-based practice specializing in ADHD with multiple locations in the region and Florida.

Baltimore Police have arrested a man in connection with a fatal hit-and-run in Penn North earlier this week.

Luigi Mangione is due in federal court Friday for a pivotal hearing in his fight to bar the government from seeking the death penalty against him in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Catherine Torney filed a lawsuit in 2023 against Towson University in Baltimore County Circuit Court that alleged negligence.

Jonathan Hugendubler, an adjunct professor and Baltimore trivia host, won $10,000 on “Jeopardy!” Thursday night as he returned for the tournament of champions, betting all he had in the Biblical Art category.

Rescue workers performed life-saving measures, but the man was pronounced dead. His identity has not yet been released.

Katie Filling, a longtime Baltimore County public school teacher and Towson University professor, died last month after a decade-long battle with cancer. She was 48.

As anger spilled out onto streets over the fatal shooting in Minneapolis of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, a new shooting by federal officers in Oregon left two people wounded.

Texas-based Avelo Airlines has faced sustained backlash — including in Maryland — since it began operating domestic transfer and international removal flights on behalf of ICE earlier this year.

As the U.S. turns 250 years old, the Department of Natural Resources is challenging Marylanders to hike 250 miles of state park trails by the end of 2026.

Kayla DiCello will compete for the first time since the 2024 U.S. Olympic trials.

As Maryland’s budget outlook worsens, state officials are hedging on the controversial Baltimore jail project.

Neighbors reflected on what the community staple that is the Severna Park Golf Center, which appears poised for sale and development into townhomes.

In a remarkable rebuke of Republican leadership, the House passed legislation 230-196, that would extend expired health care subsidies for those who get coverage through the Affordable Care Act.