Community issues

On Monday, a federal judge in Maryland denied the Justice Department’s request to pause Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s immigration case due to the government shutdown.

Rite Aid has officially closed all 16 of its Maryland stores, with customers’ prescriptions transferred to other pharmacies.

Baltimore City Police discovered what are believed to be human skeletal remains in a vacant West Baltimore home on Monday morning.

The next few months will provide ample opportunities for skywatching and stargazing, featuring supermoons and meteor showers over Maryland.

Seven students were taken to a hospital with minor injuries after a crash involving a school bus Monday morning in Woodlawn, the Baltimore County Fire Department said.

The incident occurred at about 8:30 a.m. Sunday, forcing the closure of some lanes on Montrose Road near St. Elizabeth Catholic Church.

Police said the stabbing remains under investigation, but no additional people are being sought.

Currently, the program is being kept afloat by an $150 million contingency fund, but experts say it could run dry quickly.

Baltimore County Councilman Pat Young introduced legislation that would allow a Catonsville developer to temporarily store construction equipment in an area zoned for office-residential.

The Hilton Recreation Center is on to its next chapter.

In September 2020, Caty Anderson typed out a short email to her state representative, lamenting that a woman was hit by a car near her family’s Kensington home.

The suit stemmed from a disagreement over what Patrick Murray told Kelly Madigan over breakfast at a Towson coffeehouse.

The incident comes three years after leaked documents detailed a quota-like system.

Animal shelters across Maryland are struggling with record overcrowding — thanks in large part to an increasingly high cost of living.

A person was stabbed and suffered critical injuries outside Towson Town Center on Saturday morning, police said. A suspect has been arrested.

Nearly five months after floodwaters ravaged Westernport, a small, rural Allegany County town, the yearslong work of repairing and rebuilding paused, briefly, for a celebration.

Junius Wilson, an 82-year-old Woodlawn artist who has battled cancer and other health issues, got a big break Friday when his show debuted at the American Visionary Art Museum.

District Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw said in a 16-page memorandum opinion that there was a “realistic likelihood of vindictiveness” behind the United States government’s decision to prosecute Abrego Garcia.

After months of negotiating with a prominent developer who was willing to build a library in Middle River, Baltimore County Executive Kathy Klausmeier ended the discussion.

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