Community issues

Roosevelt Park in Hampden got a new playground this summer — and it’s about to get even more new equipment, according to city recreation and parks officials.

In a back and forth on X on Thursday, Maryland Transit Administrator Holly Arnold told Baltimore sports fans frustrated with lagging game-day light rail service that only about 20 trains were available to run on any given day.

Symptoms are typically mild and mirror those of a cold or influenza but also include a facial rash on the cheek.

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Brown encouraged all Maryland state's attorneys to analyze their case data.

Leslie Noble, 16, started on the varsity team during his freshman year in 2022.

Here’s what Marylanders need to know about the changes to the real estate industry tied to a settlement agreement with the National Association of Realtors.

Victor Martinez-Hernandez was taken into custody in June at a bar in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 10 months after Morin’s body was found off the Ma & Pa Heritage Trail in Harford County.

A newly introduced House bill would increase the Dali's obligation in the Key Bridge collapse nearly ten-fold.

City officials said they are committed to publicly sharing the results of the workplace review.

Annapolis and Anne Arundel County are clearly driving this boat. Annapolis is planning a ferry inside city limits, while Anne Arundel County has applied for a federal grant to set up a $9 million ferry linking Annapolis, Baltimore and Kent Island.

Greg Kihn was born on July 10, 1949, in Baltimore and moved to the San Francisco area in the 1970s. He was signed to Beserkley Records. With a songwriting style that blended folk, classic rock, blues and pop, his Greg Kihn Band had its first hit with “The Breakup Song,” released in 1981.

Simon Property Group, which owns Arundel Mills, says that unsupervised minors must leave the property by 3 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, and those who do not abide by the shopping center’s Youth Supervision Policy will be asked to leave.

Ksenia Karelina was detained in Russia while visiting family in January after authorities there discovered she donated $51 to a U.S.-based charity that gives aid to Ukraine.

On Thursday morning, police were notified that the SUV sought in the Amber Alert had been spotted. Virginia State Police tried to stop it on Interstate 95 in Fairfax County, police said. A pursuit began when the driver did not stop and instead continued north on Interstate 495 into Maryland, where the driver lost control and crashed, police said.

Maryland has no requirement parents give consent for their children under age 18 to have an abortion. The law says parents need to be notified, but doctors can waive the requirement.

Baltimore Circuit Judge Lawrence P. Fletcher-Hill said he's confident that the case will eventually reach the Maryland Supreme Court.

The death came as students were on campus for practices and tryouts for nine sports at the school. Afternoon practices were canceled Wednesday, according to a Franklin High School Athletic Boosters page on social media. Tryouts and practices resumed Thursday.

Marylanders are safe for now as the World Health Organization declared Wednesday that the increasing spread of mpox in Africa is a global health emergency, warning the virus could cross borders.

The Baltimore Police Department continues to make slow and steady progress in a wholesale reform effort mandated by its agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice and a federal judge, but hopes of exiting that oversight anytime soon remain dim at best.