Community issues

A 41-year-old garbage worker was outside of the garbage truck he was operating when it began to roll.

From race times to road closures, here’s what you need to know to plan around Baltimore’s popular foot race.

The Enoch Pratt Free Library saw more than 8,000 materials checked out on an average day and 1.192 million visits, according to the system’s latest annual report.

Polls show a majority of white Catholics support Trump.

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Power was restored at Johns Hopkins Hospital after a portion of the institution’s east Baltimore campus switched to generators Friday night.

The state has devoted significant legal resources toward getting out of a four-year-old settlement agreement.

Eric Maul of Millersville was an exceptional flutist, a cherished son and brother, and a light in every room he walked into, family said. He died unexpectedly on Sept. 12 at his home in Provincetown, Mass. He was 33.

A group of Morgan choir singers performed with Stevie Wonder at CFG Bank Arena earlier this week. The whole plan came together in just days.

The settlement agreement requires DHS to take steps to ensure people in Maryland with disabilities receive fair access to public benefits, including the state’s temporary cash assistance program.

Lancaster Foods notified the Maryland Department of Labor that it will close its Jessup plant by Dec. 14 and lay off as many as 424 employees.

A reader says the CSX coal terminal is a stark example of how powerful industries disproportionately affect underserved communities like Curtis Bay.

A Baltimore horror movie club, with its screenings, trivia nights and potlucks, creates community and builds on the sense of safety the genre can provide.

Lutherville native Rachel Yaffe used TikTok to inspire others to live a positive, healthy lifestyle and chronicled living with a fatal disease. She died on Oct. 11 from a rare liver cancer at age 27.

Daaon Spears, 18, of Edmondson Village, is charged with first-degree murder and related offenses in the mass shooting in the Edmondson Village Shopping Center in Baltimore on Jan. 4, 2023. At the time, he was 16.

Howard County School Superintendent Bill Barnes said the school district did not know until a bail hearing what the extent of the teenager’s offenses were.

Enoki mushrooms are the latest food potentially contaminated with listeria, which can cause a deadly infection.

Maryland saw nearly 200,000 people move to other states in 2023, with just around 160,000 moving into the state from elsewhere in the United States.

John Callis, 24, of Baltimore, is wanted on one count of first-degree assault and three counts of second-degree assault, Baltimore Police reported on Thursday.

Two recent reports offer confirming — or contradictory — senses of just how expensive car insurance is in Maryland right now.