Community issues

City Council members cited concerns that the amendment process was too rushed and lacked consensus among the body and city agencies.

Heat is an insidious killer that exacerbates existing health conditions and especially targets vulnerable populations, including children and older adults.

Two grants are offered: up to $10,000 to purchase a home or up to $20,000 to purchase and renovate a home.

“Removing information could obstruct multiple investigations,” the inspector general wrote, adding that the matter has been turned over to law enforcement.

James Weems Jr., 59, of Towson, is accused of sexually abusing four children at Lil Kidz Kastle Daycare Center. He's set to stand trial this week in Baltimore County Circuit Court.

Police said they’d arrested Gabriel Gomez-Fiorenza, 27, for the deadly shooting of his 28-year-old girlfriend, Amy Armstrong, inside a luxury apartment complex in the Brewers Hill neighborhood.

Leaders of the Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts sought to reassure the arts community at a virtual town hall that breaking away from the city would not have negative impacts on artists and programs, though there are unknowns.

The president of Planned Parenthood Maryland and president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, D.C., say more needs to be done to protect access to abortion care in Maryland.

With 65.2 million people, making up 19.5% of the total population, Latines could be an influential voting block this election.

Anne Arundel County Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 30-year-old woman in a Glen Burnie apartment complex on Tuesday night.

The Maryland Department of Health says staph food poisoning from an outside dish sickened dozens of employees at a seafood facility on Oct. 21 in Jessup.

Brian Delen, 48, of Bel Air, is charged with first- and second-degree murder, first-degree assault and use of firearm in the killing of Meghan Lewis.

A Glen Burnie man has been sentenced in the fatal attack on a Brooklyn Park father who refused to produce his son for an angry group of adults and boys outside their home last year.

The jury, though, neither heard about the shooting nor learned that she’s currently serving a four-year sentence.

The Port of Baltimore is among 55 ports across 27 states and territories that will receive nearly $3 billion through the Clean Ports Program administered by the Environmental Protection Agency.

A famous old pet cemetery hides in the shadows of Howard County’s new apartments. And someone’s moving the graves.

Some question Baltimore County’s plans to spend more than $6 million in county funds to renovate Rocky Point Golf Course’s clubhouse. The county’s Revenue Authority, which oversees golf courses and parking garages, typically pays for such projects.

Democrat Angela Alsobrooks and Republican Larry Hogan are locked in a closely watched race for the U.S. Senate, but neither is talking a lot about climate change or the Chesapeake Bay in their campaigns, despite the significance of those issues to Maryland.

The tenants said MCB Real Estate was a subpar landlord that drove down the shopping center’s value.

Three rowhomes caught on fire in the 300 block of Loneys Lane in Ellwood Park-Monument on Monday afternoon.