Community issues

Hundreds of thousands of Maryland residents who buy health insurance on the state’s exchange will see a significant increase in their rates despite state efforts to keep prices under control.

An 18-year-old was sentenced Friday to 18 months in jail for stabbing a fellow student at Meade High School in January.

Defense attorneys for a man accused of shooting six people in Annapolis in 2023 want his charges dismissed, accusing Anne Arundel County State's Attorney Anne Colt Leitess of misconduct during his February trial.

They and other gang members took part in a grisly string of violence over three months in 2020 that left two young women dead.

President Donald Trump’s administration is questioning the cost of replacing Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge and criticizing Maryland laws that require some of the work be contracted out to minority-owned businesses.

Several festivals and events mean parking restrictions and road closures will be in effect around downtown this weekend and on Monday.

Locust Point residents thought their wishes had been granted Wednesday when two massive and noisy military cargo ships left the spot where they’d been berthed since June. But then one returned.

A 16-year-old girl died and a 17-year-old boy was seriously injured after their vehicle was pushed into the path of a school bus.

Howard County police on Thursday detained a person following the fatal stabbing of a woman in Ellicott City

Howard County’s planning board voted Thursday night to reject gas pumps and a Sheetz convenience store on historic Rosa Bonheur pet cemetery in Elkridge.

Montgomery County shelter providers expected a significant increase in unhoused residents after the president ordered encampments in D.C. to be cleared.

Virginia’s first Buc-ee’s opened at the end of June on the route we take to visit South Carolina family. I’ve been twice already.

People from the Baltimore area are traveling hours just to visit the new Buc‑ee’s in Virginia. The Texas-born gas station has a cult following, and Baltimoreans can get in on the craze.

More than two years ago, Daniel Myers, who was behind bars on an assault conviction, stabbed to death 27-year-old Nicholas Delfosse after warning a prison official that he would kill anyone they put in his cell at Jessup Correctional Institution.

Montgomery County has been battling invasive running bamboo for decades, from backyards and public parks to the County Council.

The family of Rachel Morin, the Bel Air mother of five whose murder drew national attention, saw a lawsuit over fundraiser money dismissed Thursday.

Maryland joined coalition of Northeastern states and New York City to protect “broad vaccine access,” among other public health initiatives.

A Harvard Business School graduate was arrested on fraud charges alleging he swindled fellow alumni out of over $4 million in a Ponzi scheme, even assuring one investor they would soon “brag” about their “crazy gains” at the school’s reunion.

The man who fatally shot three Pennsylvania officers and injured two before he was killed by police has been identified as 24-year-old Matthew James Ruth.

The complaint comes from roughly workers for AGI, a company contracted by Spirit Airlines at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.