Community issues

Maryland’s Attorney General has signed on to a push for a federal civil rights investigation into a Texas police officer pardoned by that state’s governor after being convicted of killing a social justice protester.

Horseshoe crab blood is a vital part of the pharmaceutical industry — but this nonprofit group says Maryland obfuscates how it regulates their harvest.

Residents in Pasadena in Anne Arundel County said they are concerned after learning Maryland Port Administration is considering putting dredge material in part of the river where they swim, fish and boat.

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Chris Bendann, 39, of Baltimore, worked at the independent, private all-boys school in Roland Park in Baltimore from 2007-2023. He has maintained his innocence.

The policy began on May 23, and prohibits “suitcases, duffel bags, or bags larger” than 14 by 14 by 6 inches in size.

Goucher Prison Education System, or GPEP, allows inmates to study and earn credits towards a degree while in prison. Students take about eight to 10 years to graduate because the majority are working full-time while serving their sentences.

The state transportation department is accepting bids for the Key Bridge rebuild until June 24.

Four employees of a Spirit Airlines vendor have been suspended after they fought with a fifth person at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.

The Maryland Transit Administration is offering discounted rates on certain trains and buses while D.C.-area commuters deal with closures along Metro’s Red Line.

Qayum Karzai, the owner of The Helmand restaurant and brother of a former president of Afghanistan, died Thursday. Karzai, who lived in Glenwood, was 77.

The “tough-on-crime” approaches to juvenile justice signed into law by Gov. Wes Moore have proved ineffective in the past because they fail to adequately consider the root causes of youth crime, the CEO of the Juvenile Law Center says.

Four family members are dead and one is seriously injured in a shooting that Howard County Police described as an apparent murder-suicide.

Thirteen Anne Arundel County environmental organizations have united to protect and preserve the county’s natural resources.

One-third of U.S. adults know someone who has overdosed and died, a Johns Hopkins survey found.

Bruhat Soma, a seventh-grader from Tampa, Florida, won the National Spelling Bee in Oxon Hill, Maryland by winning a lightning-round tiebreaker over a sixth-grader from Allen, Texas. Some questioned the bee’s decision to move so quickly to the spell-off.

Howard County’s finalized budget will put more than $14 million into its Complete Streets program, recognized by Smart Growth America as having the best policy of 1,700 across the U.S.

Jurors deliberated for 9 1/2 hours over two days before convicting Trump of all 34 counts he faced. Trump sat stone-faced as the verdict was being read.

Maryland kids were close but couldn’t quite churn out the correct spellings for words to advance to the finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.