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“Honestly not that surprised I’ll be carrying out the mass execution of my peers in a couple,” Jackson Elliot Fleming wrote from his home in Chesterton, Indiana, according to federal prosecutors.

A train derailment sent 18 cars off the track Sunday night in East Baltimore, according to the Baltimore City Fire Department. No one was injured.

Adam Hyman, a family law attorney in Bel Air, submitted a brief that he was unaware contained citations that artificial intelligence made up.

Next year, for two summer nights, the Indianapolis Clowns and Loco Beach Coconuts will bring Banana Ball to Prince George’s Stadium. Here’s how to get tickets.

Montgomery County police said they have identified the victim of a fatal shooting in Silver Spring over the weekend as Monique Charles, a New York City resident. They allege her ex-boyfriend killed her.

While there was some moderate flooding in Ocean City, the impact of the storm along the Maryland coast was not as strong as initially forecast.

David Earl, a successful boys lacrosse coach in Anne Arundel County who previously founded an independent blues record label, died suddenly in his sleep while visiting Florida in early September. He was 58.

Preservation Maryland plans to restore the old Ellicott City jail while also not shying away from the jail’s racist past.

LifeWise Academy is seeking to introduce Christian education programs in three Maryland school districts, with support in Harford County and efforts underway in Anne Arundel and Montgomery counties.

Maryland’s Department of Human Services repeatedly violated a policy mandating detailed reports on child deaths tied to suspected abuse or neglect. The Baltimore Banner uncovered the problem after requesting records for all such cases over five years and finding many reports didn’t exist.

Ocean City and other coastal areas of Maryland’s Eastern Shore faced strong winds and angry seas on Sunday, as a nor’easter sweeps up the coast.

Police responded to a report of a shooting in the 1700 block of Imperial Drive, where a 47-year-old woman was found dead at the scene.

A 20-year-old U.S. Naval Academy midshipman from New Jersey has died, the military service academy in Annapolis said.

A Loyola University student filed a lawsuit against two Baltimore security guards, a security company and a Federal Hill restaurant after he was put into a chokehold in a viral video. 

After years of writing about medicine, I got the chance to do something myself when I ordered the FluMist vaccine to use on my teen at home.

A powerful nor’easter is churning up the East Coast, bringing 50 mph winds, heavy rain and coastal flooding that could rival Superstorm Sandy’s impact on parts of Maryland’s shoreline.

Lawyers for Luigi Mangione asked a New York federal judge Saturday to dismiss some criminal charges, including the only count for which he could face the death penalty.

Daniel A. C. McBride writes that proposals to ban transgender people from owning guns are based in prejudice and violate constitutional rights.

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