Community issues

Omar Passmore, 29, of Windsor Mill, pleaded guilty in Baltimore Circuit Court to first-degree murder and use of a handgun during the commission of a crime of violence.

An Amtrak train traveling between Wilmington, Delaware, and Boston malfunctioned in a tunnel north of Baltimore, forcing commuters to evacuate and delaying service for MARC Penn Line trains.

From 1-4 p.m. on Tuesday, NASA planes will be flying low over Baltimore to conduct atmospheric research, according to Rob Garner, a spokesperson for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

When a teacher accused of sexually abusing students is found not guilty, the pain won’t go away easily. Not for the teacher, the student, their families or the community.

Patients of PHA Healthcare, a treatment program in Baltimore, were housed in drug-ridden buildings where many overdosed, an investigation reported last year. Some are still there.

The Baltimore Police Department is investigating after two quadruple shootings in the city.

The proposed Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project would cross some 400 different properties across the three counties.

Police on Monday released video showing the fatal police shooting of Bilal “BJ” Abdullah, a beloved arabber in Baltimore.

A strong ridge of high pressure is creating “very warm” air mass over the region, a phenomenon known as a heat dome.

The Maryland Department of the Environment has approved an air quality permit for W.R. Grace to build a pilot plastics recycling plant at its Columbia headquarters.

The State Highway Administration announced last week it was extending work hours for resurfacing roughly four miles of the expressway.

A state effort aims to find final resting spots for African American remains that were found in most cases by accident because of things like contruction projects and coastal erostion.

Katharine Rylaarsdam of Baltimore says the planned “Inviting the Light” public art project will increase harmful light pollution.

Kubofcik, who also loved spending time with family and doting on her grandchildren, died June 9 of a pulmonary blood clot. She was 83.

Sarah Pan of Ellicott City says the detentions of elected officials by ICE should alarm everyone.

Some in the Stoneleigh neighborhood want to get rid of racist covenants that prohibited African Americans and others from living there. But they must get every homeowner to sign off.

Arabbing — selling fruits and vegetables from a horse-drawn wagon — is a centuries-old profession that is hanging by a thread in Baltimore.

Traffic is moving again after a truck fire caused the closure of a stretch of the Baltimore Beltway on Saturday afternoon.

An Illinois truck driver arrested in connection with a shooting that endangered a toddler along a Baltimore County freeway may be linked to three other shootings that in Pennsylvania the same night, according to Maryland State Police.

The Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition is continuing a years-long fight to preserve and memorialize what was once Moses Macedonia African Cemetery.