Community issues

At 97, Billy Hunter was the last surviving member of the St. Louis Browns and the inaugural Baltimore Orioles team. He died July 3.

O’Rourke is holding events in Philadelphia and Richmond before his Baltimore visit and then heading to Austin and Milwaukee.

The Jordan McNair Student Athlete Heat Fatality Prevention Act requires colleges and high schools to adopt emergency heat illness protocols.

President Donald Trump’s tax and spending cuts will result in thousands of Marylanders losing access to health insurance and nutrition benefits, writes Jan Kleinman of Baltimore.

Del. Nino Mangione this week hosted his third town hall on a proposed 70-mile power line project. One year after residents started to learn about the plan, many remain vehemently opposed to the project that would cut through rural Maryland.

Harbor Splash is a milestone in the vision of Mike Hankin, a Baltimore County businessman and philanthropist who has championed a swimmable harbor for more than 15 years.

Investigators identified the 10 Baltimore Police Department officers involved in the in-custody death of Dontae Melton Jr., 31.

Roger Alvarado-Mendoza, 25, of Dundalk, entered an Alford plea Thursday in Baltimore Circuit Court to first-degree murder in the shooting of Izaiah Carter on March 6, 2023. Carter was 16.

Unionized nurses at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore are preparing to hold a one-day strike next week over what organizers say is hospital management’s refusal to address understaffing and other issues.

A man who was shot over the Fourth of July weekend in Annapolis has died from his injuries, city police said.

Baltimore County Police arrested seven people ages 12-15 in connection with the fighting and shooting that left two injured outside of a Walmart in Middle River, officials said.

A federal testing program found the synthetic opioid fentanyl mixed with other new drugs may be to blame for the mass overdose in Baltimore.

The new cameras will go live on Aug. 4, according to the Baltimore City Department of Transportation, and be located near 41st Street.

Protests and events against President Donald Trump’s controversial policies that include mass deportations and cuts to Medicaid are planned Thursday at more than a dozen locations around Maryland.

Officials cut the ribbon on the new downtown Annapolis headquarters of the HM2 Buck for Hope Foundation, a nonprofit to raise awareness about sexual assault and suicide in the military.

Planning a visit to Annapolis and want to tour the Naval Academy? There’s lots of information on a website set up to promote academy tourism. It’s one of seven great things to do, including local music, a healing arts fair and more.

Torrential rains, tornado warnings, and relentless lightning lit up the sky Wednesday night as another round of severe summer weather pummeled Maryland.

Isaiah Griffith of Baltimore says supervised drug consumption sites, like those in New York City and Vancouver, save lives and help connect people to treatment — and we should have the courage to implement them in Maryland.

The Columbia Association board of directors is getting younger, and residents say it's for the better.

Mario Minor, a former concert promoter with no experience opening a grocery store, sold Poppleton residents in Baltimore City a dream.