Community issues

Authorities have identified the 18-year-old who drowned at Assateague Island as Crescencio Lucas Chavez Velasquez of Virginia.

Baltimore County needs a reset for the inspector general's office, says N. Scott Phillips, a member of the House of Delegates, and Khadija Walker is uniquely qualified for the job.

The report also criticized the agency for mismanaging an evacuation during a flood risk and rising assaults on staff.

In response to the audit, the wills office, which has been led by former Baltimore City Councilwoman Belinda Conaway since 2014, called the allegations “unsubstantiated” without elaborating.

Here are things to do in Baltimore County for the week ending Wednesday Aug. 6, 2025.

When summertime hits Maryland, Black Marylanders don't go to Ocean City, they head to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. Some say it's a "Black Utopia."

Baltimore City and Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Carroll, Cecil, Charles, Fredrick, Howard, Montgomery, Prince George’s and St. Mary’s counties are under a heat advisory from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday. Further, officials issued a Code Orange Alert.

If Johns Hopkins Medicine and UnitedHealthcare are at odds over a new contract, and if they can't come to an agreement, Hopkins doctors will be out of UHC's network as of Aug. 25.

Direct flights between BWI and St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands will begin in February, the airline has announced.

Metalheads from across the Baltimore region gathered at Ottobar’s weekly Metal Monday — this time to pay tribute to the rock icon, who died at age 76 last week in the UK while surrounded by family.

Maryland environmental regulators to impose new restrictions on a coal export terminal in South Baltimore, blocking CSX dust from polluting neighborhoods.

It was Ledecky’s second medal in these games after taking bronze in the 400 free behind Canadian Summer McIntosh.

Two teens are facing charges after police said they kicked in the door of a Maryland home in what may be associated with a TikTok challenge.

Baltimore immigrant families now are coping with the sudden separation from loved ones and navigating both the consequences at home and the uncertainty of what happens next.

Emergency room visits in Maryland from tick bites have reached an all-time high because of climate change and urbanization.

Dozens of Howard Community College faculty members were joined by elected officials at a rally to demand progress in contract talks that they say have dragged on for a year and a half.

Holly Poultry, the meat processing and distribution plant in Southwest Baltimore where a carbon dioxide incident on Sunday affected 10 employees, returned to normal operations.

Maryland State Police are investigating the death of a man imprisoned at Jessup Correctional Institution that occurred over the weekend.

Souvlaki Greek Cuisine was evicted Monday despite a recent plea to community members to fundraise and help the beloved Hampden restaurant reopen.

A former teacher and pastor in Anne Arundel County was ordered to be held without bond on Monday after he was charged with sexually abusing students, according to court officials.