Community issues

It’s time for Maryland to enact a law to protect roadworkers whose safety is put at risk by the actions or motorists, a representative of the Laborers’ International Union of North America says.

Thanks to celebrities like Oprah, “miracle” weight loss drugs are having a moment — and come with a hefty price tag and side effects.

A group of 12 organizations has written a letter of support for Sherita Golden, a respected chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer who resigned after her definition of “privilege” caught the ire of high-profile conservatives. The letter includes several demands.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Judge Michelle M. Harner on Thursday signed an order setting status conferences for April 8 and May 20 during which survivors of clergy sexual abuse can address the court in the Archdiocese of Baltimore bankruptcy case.

A former Anne Arundel County school teacher was charged with 16 counts of child pornography.

The policy aims to give Maryland tenants more power to fight bad housing conditions in court.

St. John’s and other liberal arts colleges receive grant money to test mental health services.

Howard County has identified the person killed in a Columbia townhouse fire Wednesday night.

Baltimore Circuit Judge John Addison Howard said it would be a “miscarriage of justice” to impose a harsh sentence for Tracie Minor, 36, of Mondawmin, a former educator who accidentally dropped her bag containing a loaded handgun at KIPP Harmony Academy in West Baltimore on Dec. 21, 2023.

The largely unexplained decision has left Ridgely residents skeptical and on edge.

All five Bojangles locations in Maryland have been shut down.

The killing of a Maryland judge and a rise in threats against the state’s judges necessitated the passage of legislation to better protect them, the president and president-elect of the Maryland State Bar Association say.

Proposed changes to the state's distribution of highway user revenue would have an outsized impact on Baltimore City.

A total of 26.2 million passengers used BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport in 2023, a 15% increase from the previous year. The total included a record number of international passengers.

Remnants of a brush fire in Baltimore County halted motorists on the I-83 highway.

Howard County Police have not released many new details about the recent Ellicott City fatal crash.

In court documents filed on Monday, Deborah Katz Levi and James Dills, David Linthicum’s attorneys, asked a judge to throw out the charges against their client or bar all witnesses from the Baltimore County Police Department from testifying at trial.

Firefighters responded to a two-alarm fire at a warehouse in downtown Wednesday afternoon, according to the Baltimore City Fire Department.

A Maryland labor attorney is set to become the first openly gay judge on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after winning final confirmation by the U.S. Senate.

Howard County Police have arrested a 41-year-old man in the Feb. 8 fatal shooting of 67-year-old Perry Comeau inside his home on the 9500 block of Half Dollar Court in Columbia.