Community issues

The Maryland Attorney General’s Office identified an Essex man and the Baltimore County officers who fatally shot him during a domestic incident Wednesday night.

The suit argues the state has failed to remove the names of deceased voters or people who have moved and are no longer eligible to vote in Maryland.

A federal vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born.

A student at Northwood High School in Rockville was arrested and charged with gun possession. An altercation between students prompted a school lockdown.

Light snow could cause dangerous travel conditions for commuters, especially for drivers south of Interstate 66, according to the National Weather Service.

The Baltimore Police Department is asking residents to stay alert amid an uptick in robberies of North Face and other high-end coats, including Canada Goose and Moose Knuckles.

Plans to redevelop the site of the Severna Park Golf Center along Ritchie Highway into 130 townhomes are not going over well with neighbors.

A Baltimore County Fire Department paramedic is being investigated after he allegedly masturbated and urinated in shared common spaces inside the county’s fire stations.

A handful of Maryland school districts are announcing delays as light snow is expected across parts of the state Friday morning.

Hemlock woolly adelgids can slowly bleed a grove of the flat-needled evergreens dry, wiping out the mini ecosystem that relies on the tree.

As Diesha Contee prepares for her first Annapolis City Council meeting Monday, it’s a good moment to ask, what if? A campaign without a paid staff, with just $2,700 to spend on the primary, might never have known that primary results were counted in reverse.

The high school basketball season begins Friday in Montgomery County.

Mergenthaler beat Sherwood 40-20 to win the state championship Thursday.

Organizers expected around 10,000 people to descend upon the Washington Monument in Mount Vernon on Thursday evening for the annual lighting and fireworks show.

The state corrections department is planning to imminently transfer all detainees out of the Maryland Reception, Diagnostic and Classification Center.

Matthew McMahon, who advocated for his daughter and her half-siblings following the murder of their mother, Rachel Morin, was arrested at his Bel Air home Tuesday and charged with possessing child sexual abuse materials.

Jonathon Wagner, 39, of North Baltimore, pleaded guilty on Thursday to vandalizing Kitchen Design by Idan in Baltimore County with costume blood.

The Maryland Attorney General’s Office is investigating after Baltimore County Police officers shot and killed an armed man while responding to a stabbing in Essex on Wednesday evening.

While Baltimore officials argue that meeting the 2030 deadline puts too much financial burden on its ratepayers, the delay won’t make fixing the problem any cheaper, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and Blue Water Baltimore argued in comments on the city plan this week.

Snow is likely in the early hours of Friday morning, according to the National Weather Service.