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Maryland takes Old Bay serious. So we tried these Old Bay-flavored snacks and decided these were the best.

The deadly flooding in Texas sent shockwaves through the summer camp community, prompting Maryland camp leaders and parents to reevaluate how prepared they are for severe weather.

A 9-year-old died Thursday night after being rescued while playing in the wave pool at Hersheypark, according to park officials.

A post office in Baltimore City was renamed in honor of the late Rep. Elijah E. Cummings.

Baltimore County Executive Kathy Klausmeier’s Inspector General nominee faces hurdles, as a majority of the County Council said they would not confirm her.

A longtime Baltimore media producer, Erick Oribio Quintana, was among 10 U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents freed in a recent prisoner swap with Venezuela.

A pastor and former teacher at a Christian school was arrested Friday and charged with child sex abuse after claims were made by five students, Anne Arundel County Police said.

Daniel Fuentes Espinal, who had been living in the U.S. since arriving in 2001 from his native Honduras, was apprehended by ICE agents in Maryland. He is now in a Louisiana detention center.

A combination of extreme heat and scattered strong storms will create disruptive and at times dangerous weather conditions.

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott celebrated the new workforce development initiative, launched Thursday in the Park Heights neighborhood where he grew up, as a means to train workers to fix the city's aging infrastructure.

You probably should watch out for the speed cameras on the JFX, but remember that the waters of the Jones Falls helped create Baltimore’s famed — and fast — clippers ships, says letter writer Stan Heuisler.

For the first time since being taken into custody by ICE in May, Hagerstown mother and salon owner Mong Tuyen Thi Tran appeared in court.

For 15 months, the unusual item sat in the sunporch of a Banner reader’s home near Timonium Elementary.

Jimmy Nugent, who had his hands all over Baltimore’s restaurant scene, died July 6. The cause of death has not yet been determined. He was 34.

Police are investigating a “suspicious death” after a woman was found unresponsive Thursday in a West Baltimore neighborhood that was recently the epicenter of a mass overdose.

The unionized nurses, represented by National Nurses United, held a 24-hour strike in Baltimore on Thursday, which will end Friday morning.

In a 51-page order on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Anna M. Manasco referred Matthew Reeves and William Lunsford, both partners at Butler Snow LLP, to the Alabama State Bar and other licensing authorities.

John Huffington announced Thursday he was suing the Harford County government and representatives from the sheriff’s and state’s attorney’s offices in his continued effort to prove his innocence.

For a successful living kidney transplant, donor and recipient have to match up on a lot of things — but not personality.