Community issues

Howard County has added 20 more beds to its emergency shelter ahead of the winter months. The expansion comes at a time when advocates say the demand for shelter space is rising in Howard County.

Mangione, 26, who’s facing charges in New York City Criminal Court including second-degree murder, has become a cause célèbre among anti-capitalists and those frustrated with the U.S. health care system.

Crews responded to a report of a fire early Monday morning in Mount Vernon and found a one person dead.

Reports of drones or other aircraft flying around at night have spread from New Jersey to Maryland.

“I don’t think I understood the gravity,” Dr. Ihuoma Emenuga said about not resolving omissions on her ethics forms sooner.

Even as wealth grows in Detroit, some say they feel left behind.

Police found a 29-year-old man dead from gunshot wounds in the 200 block of North Payson Street.

Christopher Eddings, the former president of The Daily Record and director of publishing operations for the publication’s owner, BridgeTower Media, died from lung cancer. He was 75.

Santa Wayne has held court at Marley Station Mall in Glen Burnie for 35 years — nearly as long as the mall has been open. But, with much of the mall vacant, Santa Wayne has seen hardly any children this year.

The FBI did not say when it was given the information.

An Anne Arundel County Orphans’ Court judge has been indicted for allegedly recording a conversation with two fellow judges without their consent, according to the Maryland State Prosecutor’s office.

Modest requirements to incorporate a handful of PSH units will not bring about the “collapse of the industry," say the president and CEO of Health Care for the Homeless and president of HCH Real Estate Co.

Luigi Mangione has been romanticized. Experts say there’s a reason for that.

Summer McKinny is the Howard County doll that was crowned 2025 American Girl of the Year.

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Baltimore County has issued thousands of citations to motorists for failing to stop for parked school buses since early November.

One woman died while a man, a dog and a cat were rescued in a Catonsville house fire early Friday morning.

Police and state officials are investigating a break-in last month at the Maryland Department of Health headquarters — an incident in which the intruder or intruders searched desks and drawers.

Police and prosecutors swiftly arrested and charged 26-year-old Luigi Mangione after a tip from a McDonald’s employee, but any rewards may take significantly more time to be released.

Four years after awarding $50 million to Howard County-based Enterprise Community Partners, philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has made a second major donation of $65 million to the nationwide nonprofit focused on affordable housing.