Community issues

Bitty and Beau’s Coffee will shutter it's Dock Street location. All the Rage Vintage is pivoting to a new studio in Baltimore.

A woman was killed, and her child was injured after being struck by a vehicle in Rockville on Monday night, authorities said.

Criminals used construction equipment to smash through a Wells Fargo Bank near a busy intersection in Northeast Baltimore. 

COLUMN | I promise, I won’t be juvenile about this. Baltimore has a serial pooper on the loose. It’s a serious serial problem, and it’s a journalist’s duty to expose the truth. Ha ha. Duty.

Construction this summer has shut down Metro’s Bethesda, Medical Center and Grosvenor-Strathmore stops since July 6.

The 32-year-old Eastern Shore native graduated from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia just as the musical “Hamilton” was becoming a sensation.

Plans to relocate the FBI’s headquarters to Greenbelt can move forward after a federal judge, siding with Prince George’s County and the state of Maryland, blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to move the agency to an existing building in Washington.

State officials said an autopsy will be performed to determine the cause of death.

A 22-year-old was arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of two 19-year-olds on Aug. 10 in Essex, according to Baltimore County Police.

Ronald Neverdon, 79, of Woodstock, who worked at the Charles H. Hickey Jr. School from 1973 to 2013, was charged in Baltimore County Circuit Court with child abuse, perverted practice and sex offenses.

Opening statements have begun at the Las Vegas trial of a man accused of orchestrating the killing of Tupac Shakur. A prosecutor told jurors Monday that while few have been willing to speak about the 1996 shooting, Duane “Keffe D” Davis is the “one person who has a hard time being silent.”

COLUMN | Rockville-based grocery chain MOM’s Organic Market has banned its employees from wearing masks at work. That’s bad mom behavior.

Luigi Mangione’s state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, which was slated to begin Sept. 8, has been postponed indefinitely.

Actor Sonja Sohn rejects Trump’s claim of credit for Baltimore’s crime drop. In a social media video this weekend, she praised grassroots work, saying that’s why the city has made progress.

Violence in Maryland prisons, which have experienced amongst the highest homicide rates in America correctional facilities, has dropped precipitously since guards were equipped with body cameras for the first time, officials said.

Sydnie Haywood, 34, of Pikesville, pleaded guilty in Baltimore County Circuit Court to nine counts of fourth-degree sex offense.

Darlene Strickland White, a longtime Baltimore County educator who led civic and sorority organizations across Baltimore, died July 12 at 76 after a third battle with breast cancer.

In Allegany County, water rationing is driving a government takeover of a corporate-owned utility.

COLUMN | The Mayor’s Anti-Animal Abuse Advisory Commission, which was disbanded in 2020 during COVID, is back. And I’m glad, because when our economy suffers, as it is right now, so do our pets.

Maryland and the nation are piling up some pretty yucky statistics in food-borne, tick and mosquito-related and viral infections. What is going on?