Community issues

Annapolis will select a new mayor and at least three new city council members in November. Over the next six months, I’ll explore problems they will face, including rising anger over the state of playing fields.

A Baltimore firefighter who suffered a medical emergency while battling a downtown fire this week remains on life support and is not expected to recover.

Heavy rains this week led to the worst flooding parts of Allegany County has seen in nearly 30 years. Gov. Wes Moore declared a state of emergency.

Howard County is launching a free weekend “trolley” bus service through Old Ellicott City’s Main Street.

Dr. David Fowler was a well-regarded former chief medical examiner before he consulted on a high-profile case that brought fresh scrutiny to his work in Maryland.

Independent pathologists commissioned by the state concluded that Tyrone West’s case should be reclassified as a homicide.

The audit’s implications reach far beyond a finding of 36 wrongfully classified deaths.

The yearslong audit cited racial and pro-police bias in the work of the state’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

Officials said in a news release that the county first became aware of the attack Feb. 22 and immediately commissioned an investigation into the extent of the breach “with the assistance of industry-leading cybersecurity specialists, law enforcement partners, and relevant state agencies.”

It's been two years since the “iconic” Columbia lakefront library project was announced. There’s been little movement on the project’s progress.

The state of Maryland has banned the death penalty since 2013, but it has remained in effect on the federal level and applied sparingly.

A fire ripped through three rowhomes in Baltimore’s Hampden neighborhood Wednesday, the most recent blaze to cause destruction on the block.

The Maryland Transit Administration is phasing out CharmCard in favor of the mobile app CharmPass.

Attorneys for Dr. James Strachan Houston argued the case was tainted beyond reproach by the behavior of Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney Anne Colt Leitess and two police detectives.

“Sir, you are the wrong person for this job,” U.S. Sen. Angela Alsobrooks told Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a budget hearing on Wednesday.

Maryland State Police have said the crash is still under investigation.

Both women were sent by ICE to detention facilities in New Jersey and Colorado over the weekend.

After some record-breaking rainfall Tuesday night, the Baltimore area will likely continue to have cloudy, stormy weather over the week.

This is the time of year for Baltimore’s birds – those pint-sized songsters whose bold tangerine sets off beautifully against the green trees.