Community issues

The yearslong audit cited racial and pro-police bias in the work of the state’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

Officials said in a news release that the county first became aware of the attack Feb. 22 and immediately commissioned an investigation into the extent of the breach “with the assistance of industry-leading cybersecurity specialists, law enforcement partners, and relevant state agencies.”

It's been two years since the “iconic” Columbia lakefront library project was announced. There’s been little movement on the project’s progress.

The state of Maryland has banned the death penalty since 2013, but it has remained in effect on the federal level and applied sparingly.

A fire ripped through three rowhomes in Baltimore’s Hampden neighborhood Wednesday, the most recent blaze to cause destruction on the block.

The Maryland Transit Administration is phasing out CharmCard in favor of the mobile app CharmPass.

Attorneys for Dr. James Strachan Houston argued the case was tainted beyond reproach by the behavior of Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney Anne Colt Leitess and two police detectives.

“Sir, you are the wrong person for this job,” U.S. Sen. Angela Alsobrooks told Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a budget hearing on Wednesday.

Maryland State Police have said the crash is still under investigation.

Both women were sent by ICE to detention facilities in New Jersey and Colorado over the weekend.

After some record-breaking rainfall Tuesday night, the Baltimore area will likely continue to have cloudy, stormy weather over the week.

This is the time of year for Baltimore’s birds – those pint-sized songsters whose bold tangerine sets off beautifully against the green trees.

A minority owner of Harborview is suing his business partner, accusing him of a scheme to seize complete control of the South Baltimore marina.

A Johns Hopkins ophthalmologist has identified a gene mutation in horses that suggests why they became such good racehorses.

The county established the Police Accountability Board three years ago after the General Assembly passed the Police Accountability Act in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis Police in 2021.

Fire officials said a blaze in West Baltimore, which peaked at a seven-alarm incident late Monday, is contained as of Tuesday night.

Allegany County spokesperson Kati Kenney said responders used rescue boats to safely evacuate a school. About 150 students and 50 adults were evacuated during 15 boat trips.

It’s still possible a panel of judges on the Appellate Court of Maryland could order the case frozen as they consider the prosecution’s appeal.

Maryland health officials have outlined the massive potential cuts to the budget and enrollment if Congress goes through with proposals to slash the Medicaid health program.