Community issues

A 55-year-old man was killed in East Baltimore Saturday, the first homicide of 2026 following another year marked by a notable decline in violence in the city.

A guide for caregivers to nurture their Baltimore kiddo's budding love for music.

For the first time in decades, researchers on the Severn River in Anne Arundel County systematically documented the reproduction of the Chesapeake Bay tributary’s osprey. Their findings were grim.

COLUMN: Anne Arundel County Police will have to figure out not only what happened and why but whether Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents lied.

A Prince George’s County corrections officer died on New Years Eve after his pickup truck went off the road and crashed into a pole in Crofton, police said.

The chance of light snow is greatest between 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 a.m. Sunday in Maryland. No accumulation is expected.

The deal between Maryland and Constellation Energy, meant to pave way for relicensing of the nearly century-old dam, faced opposition from a coalition of Republican-led counties on the Eastern Shore.

The complaint alleges that Steve Quisenberry violated Howard County ethics laws by serving on the advisory board that selected his boss, who in turn picked him for the top job in Baltimore County.

Flu cases in Maryland are high, and officials warn it’s going to get worse.

The accused kidnapper of a 13-year-old Kentucky girl met her online, drove her from her home state to Florida and then to his Silver Spring home, according to news reports. He is now in a Kentucky jail.

A Baltimore County paramedic has been under investigation for allegedly ejaculating and urinating on his colleagues' belongings.

An Annapolis woman who works as a sergeant for the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., faces assault and firearm violation charges for an alleged road rage incident last month.

The company contracted to care for the teenage girl who had been living in an East Baltimore hotel for weeks failed to lock up her medication or properly supervise her, a state report found.

Columbia Snowden 14 and ScreenX will close its doors for good on Jan. 5, leaving Howard County with just one movie theater.

Baltimore County Police officers fatally shot Howard Sye, 31, after he tried to punch another member of the force, body camera footage released on Friday shows.

Keon Wilson-Hawkins, 22, of Baltimore, was found guilty in Frederick County Circuit Court of first-degree murder and related crimes in the killing of Brice Boots, 65, of Pikesville.

Tiago Alexandre Sousa-Martins, an immigrant from Portugal accused of driving his van at ICE agents in Glen Burnie, was moved to the Caroline Detention Facility in Virginia, according to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement online detainee database.

Many who set up these small neighborhood exchanges say it has one simple goal: to spread joy among the community.

Baltimore resident Karen Thomas started a new career after losing a dream job as the historian of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Assessments rose more slowly this year after three years of big property value increases.