Community issues

Police identified the women who died as Musammat Shamima Begum, 46, and Areebah Jahin, 23.

SpaceX launched the $4.3 billion Roman Space Telescope shortly after daybreak aboard a triple-the-fire-power Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center.

Find Your Finesse, an indoor futsal training program for kids, is set to reopen in a new facility on Sparrows Point Road next month.

The Maryland State Fair’s new foods include savory and sweet options, from pork belly to churro nachos, but which are worth trying and which should you skip?

Flash floods swept through the area of Nepal where the tour group was staying, destroying roads and buildings and killing hundreds.

A possible mercury spill in Lutherville sent six people to the hospital Friday.

The family of Jada Sellers is remembering the 17-year-old Milford Mill Academy student, who died 12 days after being shot in West Baltimore.

An abandoned gray shed in West Baltimore is getting a second chance thanks to two college students and a local nonprofit.

Natalie Hanrion, a costume designer and maker, spent more than 100 hours on a handmade Italian Renaissance-inspired dress that pays homage to the Maryland flag.

Dive crews with the Baltimore City Fire Department pulled a person from the Inner Harbor outside the National Aquarium late Friday afternoon.

State investigators have released body-worn camera footage from a fatal police shooting in Fort Washington Park last month.

A Virginia family with four relatives missing in the flash floods along the Nepal-China border is calling for more resources to help with rescue efforts.

On Friday, a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge sentenced 73-year-old Janey Sears to 15 years in prison for defrauding a Silver Spring man of more than $400,000.

Lawyers for several detainees accused U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of overcrowding temporary holding rooms in Baltimore and denying access to medical care, in violation of a federal court order from March 6.

Baltimore Police on Friday released body camera footage of an officer shooting and critically wounding a man after the man struck the officer with his car.

Authorities have arrested a 26-year-old man in a retaliatory shooting on Maryland’s Eastern Shore that left a 5-year-old girl dead.

A Baltimore Police officer has been charged in Harford County with raping a woman involved in a domestic violence incident whom he had driven home, officials confirmed.

Amentum, a Virginia-based government services firm, filed notices with the Maryland Department of Labor earlier this month that it would lay off 380 workers in Hanover later this year.

Stanley Synowczynski, 75, was badly burned in the explosion last Wednesday, which killed his wife, Linda Synowczynski. He died from his injuries Thursday evening, according to the Anne Arundel County Fire Department.

Rodney Givens was identified by the SEIU 500 as the Montgomery County Public Schools bus driver who had a medical emergency and died after crashing into a utility pole in Gaithersburg on Tuesday.