Community issues

Baltimore’s transportation department has created an interactive map of the city for residents to report near misses.

Dr. Devesh Kanjarpane has been trying for years to convert a former auto parts warehouse in West Baltimore into a health center that will also dispense methadone.

LifeBridge Health says gun trafficking is a public health problem and it needs the public to get involved to find solutions.

Dazhon Darien is charged with disturbing school operations, retaliating against a witness, stalking and related offenses.

Richard Bright, a longtime Coppin State University professor, died Jan. 14 in his sleep. He was 89.

An executive order from the Trump administration could upend research by pausing NIH grants, which scientists say could harm health and the economy.

Baltimore Police officers responded to a shooting involving a 9-year-old Saturday afternoon.

The Inner Harbor is more than 90% frozen, according to the U.S. National Ice Center.

A community is outraged, and a family is devastated by the murder of Anntoinette Tunstall-Jennings, a Baltimore schoolteacher’s aide, who was fatally shot after watching her grandchild play basketball.  

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President Donald Trump pardoned more than 1,500 people in connection with the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Dozens of those people are from Maryland.

A fire that started at a Dundalk recycling center last Saturday and rekindled this week is nearly extinguished, officials said.

The Harford County State’s Attorney’s Office recently dropped the cases against Regina Jones, the former principal of Aberdeen Middle School, and Tanya Johnson, a paraeducator, after determining that “the facts do not support conviction.”

The rhetoric surrounding immigration and deportations is certain to set large parts of Maryland on edge.

Keyona Dillon, 34, was arrested around noon on Thursday when officers responded to a home in the 2100 block of Firethorn Road, according to the Baltimore County Police Department.

It was not immediately clear whether the suspects are fellow students.

The 52-year-old woman who was killed in a triple shooting Wednesday night in North Baltimore was identified by police as Antionette Jennings.

Maryland’s roads claimed 572 lives last year, preliminary state data shows. That number is 49 fewer than in 2023 but likely to rise.

The site would include large and small single-family homes but also duplexes at prices that are “financially accessible” to aspiring homeowners, project managers said.

The owner of PHA Healthcare said he has ended its treatment services, but clients are still living in the addiction treatment provider’s housing.