Community issues

It’s the week before the holidays, and Baltimore County is offering plenty of ways to celebrate, from a holiday light festival to a Hanukkah bash.

The impending closure of Baltimore’s original community-led police oversight board has raised new questions. It may also present new opportunities.

“You see more of where you’re traveling looking out the windows, you’re not just up in the clouds," said fullback Pat Ricard.

Hagerstown had never seen a mayor like Tekesha Martinez: a Black woman and poet who grew up in foster care. Ahead of the 2024 election, national politics seeped into her city.

After five days of testimony, a judge is set to decide what will happen. The decision could take months.

The Baltimore County Police Department is investigating a shooting in the area of Loch Raven Boulevard in Towson.

A law firm’s request for records about plans to build a center for incarcerated women has led to a year-and-a-half-long saga that recently culminated in a lawsuit.

”This was a frightening, well-planned targeted murder that was intended to cause shock and attention and intimidation,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said at a news conference on Tuesday announcing that a grand jury had indicted Mangione on 11 counts including first-degree murder.

The program launched in four high schools that dealt with gun violence near their campuses or involving their students.

Three men have been reported dead from cold-related illness in Maryland so far this winter season.

The Maryland Department of Transportation is looking to add 29 new sites for electric vehicle chargers along major interstates and highways.

Malone, a Democrat, represented Baltimore and Howard counties from 1995 to 2014. He died on Monday of brain cancer at age 67.

Two people died after they were hit by an Amtrak train while trespassing on the tracks Monday night in Baltimore’s Midtown-Edmondson neighborhood, according to company officials.

The drones are not a national security threat, federal officials say, but they are ramping up efforts to mitigate the issue in New Jersey and other states.

Howard County’s coziest spots for the best cups of coffee.

The Baltimore County Council is poised to select the next county executive from a pool of five candidates.

Leslie Hughan, a nurturing mother of four and a friend who always had a pep talk ready when you needed one, died on Dec. 1 of a pulmonary embolism. She was 41.

From retimed lights to seemingly never-ending roadwork, here’s why your drive downtown may have recently gotten longer.

The Baltimore Police Department’s achievements come amid an uncertain backdrop in the federal monitoring of local police departments.

Kate Burgin, who previously served in a leadership role at the Walters Art Museum, will succeed Julia Marciari-Alexander as the museum’s CEO and executive director. She’ll start in late January 2025.