Community issues

Officials could not determine what caused the fire, but ruled that it was accidental.

We will still be under a severe geomagnetic storm watch tonight, issued by the Space Weather Prediction Center after scientists detected a coronal mass ejection — a large blast of plasma and magnetic field from the sun’s surface — earlier this week.

Two teenagers have been charged as adults in connection with the shooting of a Rodgers Forge man behind his home on Sept. 13. Police say a struggle between the victim and an armed teen was captured on video.

The highly critical and heavily redacted report concluded there were “deficiencies, gaps and inconsistencies” in training, policies, tactics and procedures as well as “conflicting guidance” on when and how to use emergency flotation devices.

Curtis Bay residents want more protections from CSX’s coal facility, but state officials expect the company may file a lawsuit.

Here are some stellar photos of the northern lights captured in Maryland.

A surge of particles from the sun caused the northern lights to be visible in Maryland on Thursday night.

The Snallygaster appears to have been invented by the staff of a small newspaper to terrorize and control Black people in the early 1900s.

Frustrated Annapolis officials remain confident FEMA funds will come eventually, but starting the massive climate change project at City Dock immediately after the Annapolis Sailboat Show and finishing most of it by next fall isn’t going to happen.

Officials arrested a second teenager in connection to a non-fatal shooting that’s rocked the Towson neighborhood of Rodgers Forge, the Baltimore County Police Department announced Thursday night.

The lawsuit was filed on Thursday in Baltimore County Circuit Court against Concrete General Inc., the state of Maryland and two drivers arrested and charged in the crash.

The state transportation department wants to encourage new apartment buildings and other development around stations along the MARC Penn Line.

Maryland is trying to eliminate an obscure rule that stopped Medicaid from paying for certain patients’ abortions.

Thursday’s ruling means voters will cast ballots on a charter amendment which would allow MCB Real Estate, a private company, to redevelop the site of the existing Harborplace pavilions.

At 9:15 a.m. on Thursday, Scott walked into Courtroom 636 in the Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. Courthouse with two members of his security detail trailing him. His time as an alternate juror, though, quickly came to an end.

. Her daughter, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, served as Lt. Gov. of Maryland.

Baltimore police officers shot and killed a man following a pursuit in the Upton neighborhood Wednesday night, the department said.

Pickett Brewing Company Beertender Eric Kraai and his kids are leading local Baltimore breweries in the call to help North Carolina residents after Hurricane Helene.

A federal investigation has led to the takedown of 17 people allegedly involved in a nationwide marijuana trafficking organization that laundered its proceeds through China.

Flooding from Hurricane Helene halted production at the country’s leading manufacturer and triggered a national shortage.