Community issues

Luigi Mangione will assert a psychiatric defense at his state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a judge said Wednesday.

Joni Holifield, the founder and executive director of the youth-focused nonprofit HeartSmiles, died this week after a battle with ovarian cancer.

The money will support at least eight Baltimore high schoolers each year.

A man was killed while crossing the street in Gaithersburg on Wednesday morning, according to Montgomery County Police.

Four candidates vying for Baltimore County’s top education job spoke to the public for the first time Tuesday night.

President Donald Trump’s remodeled Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool with its “American flag blue” bottom has turned chartreuse from an algal bloom that park service workers struggled to address Tuesday just days after its more than $14 million renovation.

A University of Maryland center that develops vaccines is changing focus under Trump while Ebola and other pathogens loom.

Crews on Tuesday recovered the body of a Towson University student who went missing while swimming in the Potomac River near Great Falls on Sunday.

The operator of the container ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge demanded its crew members be allowed to return home after more than two years “marooned” in the United States.

Melvin Andrew Pinkney Jr. was arrested for posing as a police officer after conducting a traffic stop on a Montgomery County Police officer who was working in an unmarked cruiser.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has dropped its effort to deport a Prince George’s County native who has spent months trying to prove her U.S. citizenship.

A hearing in Luigi Mangione’s state murder case in the killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was postponed until Wednesday after prosecutors failed to inform his jailors that he was needed in court.

The couple was hiding out from police at the Ohio home of a good Samaritan who had no idea about the killing. 

An 85-year-old woman was killed in a Monday afternoon car crash in Odenton, the Anne Arundel County Police Department said.

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James Kitchin relies on public campaign financing. Allison Pickard has a deep bench of political allies. And Pete Smith literally walked across Anne Arundel County.

NEHI, once a darling of Baltimore’s nonprofit world, is heading toward collapse, threatening the budding network of community land trusts.

Joshua Bell is obsessed with Bigfoot. Wouldn’t you be if the Sasquatch was spotted in your neighborhood?

Barnes & Noble will open its first Baltimore location in six years. The store is expected to open a storefront in Harbor East in late October.

The family foundation of Lynda Carter, who portrayed Wonder Woman in the 1970s TV series, gifted Johns Hopkins’ urology center $10 million.