Community issues

Bryan Johnson pleaded guilty Friday to first-degree murder and related crimes in the killing of Deanta Dorsey, a sophomore at Edmondson-Westside High School, on Jan. 4, 2023.

Residents near the structurally unsound Empire Towers on Ritchie Highway in Glen Burnie are being asked to respect a 150-foot perimeter around the building, county officials said.

Severe thunderstorms, damaging winds and heavy rain could dash Saturday night plans for a second time this month, though the risk is much lower this weekend.

Rev. Annie Chambers, a Baltimore civil rights icon who advocated for the poor, died July 2 of an infection. She was 84.

Drs. Charles Shelton and Willie Richardson opened their dental practice in Baltimore in 1979. For more than four decades, the practice operated seven days a week in Park Heights.

The historic Eastern Avenue Pumping Station has kept Baltimore's wastewater moving since 1912. Now the city is investing $63 million to modernize it.

An Anne Arundel officer was sentenced in an insurance fraud scheme involving several other Maryland officers.

Three men were injured in a shooting outside a commercial strip on East Cold Spring Lane in Northeast Baltimore, police said.

Disappointment in the progress of the Corsica raises a bigger, more troubling question. If, in two decades, officials can’t revive one relatively small tributary, can they really save the bay?

James Richburg, 63, of Saint Josephs, was found guilty in Baltimore Circuit Court of second-degree murder and related crimes in the killing of William Womack on Nov. 30, 2024.

Two parents, backed by a conservative nonprofit group, are suing Anne Arundel County Public Schools over the school system’s policies related to transgender children.

Six Baltimore Police officers fired 70 shots at a man who appeared to lower his hand in the direction of what officers believed was a gun following an 18-minute police pursuit, officials said Friday.

The killings of two children inside a Gwynn Oak home have left a Baltimore County community in mourning, as police identified the victims Wednesday as 9-year-old Steve Allen and his 15-year-old sister, Giovanna Myrie.

The large building on Ritchie Highway is not structurally sound, according to the county fire department.

Trader Joe’s is opening its 12th store in Maryland at the Anneslie Shopping Center on York Road.

Drivers in Baltimore should get ready for another weekend of heavy traffic and road closures as the 44th annual Baltimore Washington One Carnival welcomes thousands to celebrate Caribbean culture.

Susan Goering, the former executive director of the ACLU of Maryland, died June 21 of cancer. She was 73.

Maryland is losing more than 350 jobs as software giant Microsoft makes deep slashes to its video game divisions.

After failing to gain traction with adults, an inhaled insulin is marketed to needle-averse kids with diabetes.

Ron Daniels, the president of the Johns Hopkins University for 17 years, received a multiyear payout ahead of a drastic drop in federal research funding.