Community issues

Jasper Davis, 14, was shot and killed Sunday near the Mondawmin metro station in Baltimore.

Biologists with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center found evidence that sanctuaries in tributaries of the bay have higher populations of oysters and other marine life, including two common parasites.

As the climate warms and the oceans rise, the story of Annapolis is the story of many coastal places with proximity to the sea becoming more and more of a liability.

“She didn’t bother nobody. She was sweet, quiet and respectful,” her grandmother said after a vigil Monday evening. “My heart hurts so bad for her.”

Then-Sen. Kamala Harris based her first run for president in Baltimore. As of now, it does not appear the vice president will move the campaign apparatus from Wilmington, Delaware, to Charm City.

If you want to get a whiff or catch a glimpse of the endangered corpse flower, now is your chance.

”The party can test it at their own peril,” said Democratic fundraiser Karen Miller

The story of Brandon Bowden reveals disturbing truths about the Maryland prison system.

Police said officers arrested a man Sunday morning who is suspected of fatally shooting a 12-year-old girl in an East Baltimore rowhouse two days earlier.

How Maryland state Sen. Mike McKay befriended infamous attempted assassin Arthur Bremer.

Elected officials and advocates in Maryland fear a grid operator, PJM Interconnection, is in no hurry to comply with a federal order that aims to expedite clean energy projects.

A Baltimore Police Department spokesperson said in an email a child was shot in the 500 block of North Kenwood Avenue.

A plea agreement for Nicholas John Roske, who is accused of plotting to kill Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, fell through.

Two people died of listeria in Illinois and New Jersey.

Fitzsimmons-Peters died July 9 from post-delivery complications, just days after giving birth to Josie, her second child and only daughter. She was 34. Josie is healthy, her family said.

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The workers at Bethesda Game Studios now represent the first wall-to-wall union at a Microsoft video game studio, according to the union.

Marylanders awoke Friday to widespread reports of a global technology outage disrupting transportation, courts, tolls, some of the state’s hospital systems and local governments.

Carroll J. “Fitz” Fitzgerald, a former Baltimore City Council member who survived a 1976 shooting rampage at a temporary City Hall office, has died. He was 89. Fitzgerald died July 8.

It’s the first case that the Maryland Office of the Attorney General has brought since obtaining the authority to enforce local, state and federal civil rights laws.