Community issues

Eashan Stefanski, the man charged after a child brought a gun to an Anne Arundel County elementary school and accidentally shot himself, pleaded guilty.

Maryland’s attorney general on Tuesday announced his office will not seek charges against officers who fatally shot Elliott Powers at a Gaithersburg bus stop in July.

The historic Edgar Allan Poe House is in trouble. Its caretakers are asking the community for help raising $50,000 for an emergency preservation effort as debris and security issues arise from a neighboring city construction project.

The nonprofit AfriThrive distribute foods commonly eaten in African, Latin American and Asian households that are hard to find or too expensive for immigrant families.

Baltimore has chosen the tuliptree as its new official city tree, replacing the invasive callery pear after a months-long public vote and a decidedly dramatic race at Cylburn Arboretum.

Some families using childcare scholarships could go from paying $3 a week to more than $100 as early as January.

Developers plan to break ground on Viva White Oak before the end of the year, but the project’s full build-out is still years away.

A back-and-forth between Baltimore County and Baltimore City over an old bridge is about way more than just who should foot the bill — it indicates the localities could be moving toward a bigger change regarding ownership of critical infrastructure.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore announced an executive action Monday that increases the minimum wage to $18 an hour for direct state contract employees at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.

The ID checkpoints established in July for Baltimore’s Fells Point entertainment district are set to end after Labor Day weekend, Mayor Brandon Scott’s office said Monday.

Federal immigration agents violently clashed with protesters in Frederick on Friday night, using their vehicles to clear sidewalks and dragging protesters from the front porch of a home they attempted to enter, city officials said.

Police have identified the man they found dead from a gunshot inside a vehicle early Sunday in Hyattsville.

Will Jawando has been hospitalized since Saturday after having a heart attack during a pickup basketball game that morning.

Maryland State Police troopers responded to a crash between a passenger van and a tractor trailer on I-695 in Baltimore County on Sunday morning.

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The pope excommunicated the ultra traditionalist Catholic Society of St. Pius X, which has a history of clashing with the church. SSPX is appealing the excommunication. Parishioners in Upper Marlboro talk about their faith and how its impacted by the excommunication.

Olafur Nelson is a member of the Dundalk-Patapsco Neck Historical Society, which commemorates the Battle of North Point.

A mother has spent months fighting with the district over where her son can best learn.

Rosalind “Rose” Rivera, a longtime Annapolis resident and nursing educator who worked at Anne Arundel Community College, died Aug. 10. She was 94.

A person died in a car crash in Edgemere on Saturday night when a truck drove across double yellow lines and struck a car head on.