Community issues

After posing as a police officer and pulling over a Montgomery County cop in an unmarked cruiser, Melvin Andrew Pinkney Jr. was seen wearing a duty belt that carried a baton, a gun and handcuffs, according to court records obtained by The Banner.

The chief engineer of the Dali container ship said little during a hearing three days after federal prosecutors charged him with one felony count of violating the Ports and Waterways Safety Act.

Police are looking for a 33-year-old man wanted in the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old Towson University student earlier this month.

An officer who was shot during an encounter with an armed flasher has been released from the hospital.

Two projects for public water access in Anne Arundel were quickly amended out of next year’s budget. Advocates described feeling blindsided, and some officials decried the move as potentially motivated by politics.

Here are the big things officials want you to keep in mind (besides remembering to pack your sunscreen) when you head to the shore this summer.

Eastpoint Mall, one of Baltimore County’s first shopping centers, will close Aug. 31, according to tenants.

A Baltimore bookstore owner says her Pride-themed window display was vandalized last weekend while the city’s Pride festival was happening.

CareFirst filed a $51 million lawsuit against a pair of brothers for what the company called “health insurance fraud conspiracy of breathtaking scale and audacity.”

A Columbia Association executive proposed turning one of the community’s 23 neighborhood pools into a splash park, sparking one of the most heated debates of 2026.

Tropical Storm Arthur formed off the Texas coast on Wednesday as the first tropical storm of the season in the Atlantic basin, threatening a wide swath of the Gulf Coast with potentially dangerous flooding even as it was expected to quickly weaken.

Shina Parker, who founded Integrity Title and blazed a path for Black women in the real estate industry, died May 28 of natural causes. She was 63.

A student was taken into custody after a stabbing that injured two school staff members at Roye-Williams Elementary School on Wednesday afternoon, police said.

The next Howard County high school will be built at Troy Park, located at 6500 Mansion Lane in Elkridge.

A US Coast Guard service member vaulted onto a speeding unmanned vessel and brought it to a halt on the Severn River near Annapolis last week after its operator was thrown overboard.

A Carroll County woman’s family is working to bring her back to Maryland from Panama after a medical emergency landed her in the hospital.

Terri Lee Freeman, president of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in Baltimore, will retire later this year, the downtown museum announced Wednesday.

Detective Storm Sheckells correctly guessed the passcode of the suspect’s iPhone. He’s suspended with pay pending an internal investigation.

Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates said he considered Denise Day’s humanity in the decision.

Melesse Semegne is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in May at the Silver Spring business that lists him at its president and CEO.