Community issues

The Howard County Board of Education met publicly for the first time since a 17-year-old student at Howard High School was charged with the murder of a 26-year-old man.

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission will hold a special meeting in December to change the season for catching rockfish, catch limits and size restrictions, or some combination of all three.

Howard County Police teamed with Loyola University Maryland interns and NamUs to create an AI-generated image of an unidentified woman who died in 1971 — the county’s longest cold case — in hopes of identifying the Jane Doe.

Richard Berkeley, of Baltimore, was a man of faith who prioritized his family above all else. He was a passionate investor, proud alumnus of the University of Virginia and an outdoorsman who loved fishing. He died on Oct. 14 at the age of 72.

A 16-year-old boy was critically wounded and a woman was grazed when someone fired a gun into a crowd in Severn on Thursday night, Anne Arundel County Police said.

The owner and the manager of the container ship that caused the Key Bridge collapse, killing six bridge workers, have agreed to pay more than $100 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the Justice Department. DOJ blamed the Singapore-based companies for a “cascading series of failures.”

A jury could not reach a unanimous verdict in the case of Daaon Spears, 18, of Edmondson Village, who stood trial in Baltimore Circuit Court on charges including first-degree murder.

Jo-Ann Weber, co-owner and operators of Weber’s Cider Mill Farm in Baltimore County, died Oct. 17. She was 77.

Johnny Olszewski ascended to the upper echelons of local politics with a trustworthy image. His facade is starting to crack.

Two people are dead and four others were injured after a fiery, multi-vehicle crash on Interstate 83 in Baltimore County near the Pennsylvania border, the Maryland State Police said.

“We don’t have a sense of when it may happen again, we don’t have a sense of what to do differently,” Councilman Mark Conway said.

The National Transportation Safety Board has issued its final report on the deadly crash on Interstate 695 last year that killed six highway workers.

District Judge LaTina Burse Greene on Wednesday ordered Jack Callis to continue to be held without bail.

The Baltimore Sun Guild filed a federal complaint on Friday alleging that a former employee was fired from the newspaper because she was participating in activity protected by the National Labor Relations Act.

Councilman Dion Guthrie, 86, a Democrat, is charged with one count of theft between $1,500 and $25,000 from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1501.

State Sen. Charles E. Sydnor III, who has represented western Baltimore County in the General Assembly since 2020, says he may run for county executive in 2026.

Maryland has some of the strongest abortion protections in the country. Now, voters will decide whether the state constitution should include a right to reproductive freedom.

The decision is a blow to the city and a win for the drug companies, but it was not entirely unexpected because of Maryland’s high legal standard for punitive damages.

Dozens of workers at NAFCO, a seafood distributor in Jessup, were sickened after eating a Filipino noodle dish that was prepared elsewhere and brought onto the property, said representatives for the company.

Owners of vacant properties would eventually pay a tax rate four times that of typical properties.