Community issues

A Baltimore police officer shot and killed a dog in the Harlem Park neighborhood on Friday evening after it attacked two women and their dog, police said.

The initiative comes from Control MoCo Spending, a group founded by Reardon Sullivan, the Republican nominee for the council’s District 1 seat.

Members of the Baltimore Community Guaranteed Income Club pledge a maximum of 7% of their take-home pay to help each other cover expenses like rent, utilities and groceries.

Infections from vibrio remain relatively uncommon but their number is increasing because of climate change, scientists say. And, as the Chesapeake Bay warms, its mildly salty and nutrient-gorged waters offer prime habitat for the potentially deadly microbe.

Montgomery County Council member Kristin Mink said firefighters violated county law when they allowed ICE to join them as they prepared for a potential water rescue on the Potomac River.

Officers responded to the crash around noon Friday on Ritchie Highway at Holsum Way, according to a news release from the Anne Arundel County Police Department.

Drivers in Baltimore should prepare for heavy traffic and road closures this weekend.

A 12-inch water main break that caused a sinkhole to open and swallow a vehicle last week was repaired on Friday morning, city officials said.

Maryland will receive more than $13 million from seven opioid manufacturers as part of a new settlement announced Friday by state Attorney General Anthony Brown.

For the first time in five years, federal engineers plan to restock Ocean City’s waterfront, a $27 million project that involves dredging hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of sand to line the tourist town’s eroding coastline.

Montgomery County has agreed to pay $1.5 million to acquire the White’s Ferry landing in hopes that public ownership will help reopen the Potomac River shuttle.

A multistory senior apartment complex in East Baltimore was evacuated Friday morning after firefighters discovered an underground fire, officials said.

Baltimore prosecutors said they are investigating the leak of documents outlining a witness’s cooperation in a high-profile murder-for-hire case, as defense attorneys denied they had provided materials to anyone outside the case.

The Prince George’s County Planning Board considered a proposal that could allow data centers in agricultural and residential areas.

Roughly 60% of the district’s portable classrooms are on elementary campuses.

Democrat Lisa Maisano and Republican Julie Walsh are pitching themselves as a bipartisan slate for Carroll County school board who can steer the conversation away from national politics and back to local issues.

COLUMN | Anne Arundel County is lowering the speed limit on Forest Drive in Annapolis from 40 to 35 mph on Monday, the first big step in a $10 million plan to make this dysfunctional back door to Maryland’s state capital safer.

Human remains found in a creek bed of Back River in Baltimore County last week have been identified as those of a New Jersey woman who went missing in Maryland, police said.

The teenager was at Hammond High School when a school resource officer received a report that the suspect had a gun in his possession, police said.

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