Community issues

Maryland Attorney General’s Office released the names of a Dundalk man who was fatally shot during a mental health crisis and the Baltimore County Police officer responsible.

Maryland lawmakers joined a call from the Office of People’s Counsel for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to stop supply costs from surging this summer.

David Linthicum, 26, of Cockeysville, was found guilty in 2024 in Baltimore County Circuit Court of four counts of attempted first-degree murder and related crimes.

According to police, forensic pathologists determined that Heather Elizabeth Beaver died of blunt force trauma, ruling she died at the hands of another.

In a Tuesday order, three Appellate Court of Maryland judges granted the state’s request to slow the case against James Strachan Houston.

Annual COVID-19 shots for healthy younger adults and children will no longer be routinely approved under a major new policy shift unveiled Tuesday by the Trump administration.

Both teens were transported to a nearby hospital and are in stable condition.

The nation’s largest public power company submitted a construction permit application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a small nuclear reactor.

Swimmer Katie Pumphrey cut short her second attempt to swim from the Chesapeake Bay to the Inner Harbor.

Americans are preparing for an economic downturn — a trend that’s evident on “recession core” social media.

Affogatto, a new cat cafe in Fells Point, is expected to open later this month.

Linthicum, 26, of Cockeysville, is set to be sentenced on Tuesday in Baltimore County Circuit Court on four counts of attempted first-degree murder and related crimes.

Flooding devastated Western Maryland last week, and now the Maryland Insurance Administration is invoking emergency powers to help those affected get access to drugs and medical equipment.

Peggy Bailey, better known as “Miss Peggy” to adoring customers at Jennings Cafe in Catonsville, died May 12. She was 82.

Baltimore County should honor its commitment to raise pay for teachers, a letter writer says, and can find the money to do so by trimming other projects.

Matthew Schlegel, 45, of Severna Park, is charged in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court with sexual abuse of a minor, third- and fourth-degree sex offense and second-degree assault. He maintains his innocence.

Unbeknownst to school staff, they were leaving something behind in the century-old building.

The overflow was considered a sanitary sewage overflow, which means raw sewage was released, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

A letter writer says Preakness and other horse races are inhumane, and should be ended.

A statue of George “Spider” Anderson, the first Black jockey to win the Preakness Stakes, was unveiled near Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.