Community issues

Maryland will receive more than $13 million from seven opioid manufacturers as part of a new settlement announced Friday by state Attorney General Anthony Brown.

For the first time in five years, federal engineers plan to restock Ocean City’s waterfront, a $27 million project that involves dredging hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of sand to line the tourist town’s eroding coastline.

Montgomery County has agreed to pay $1.5 million to acquire the White’s Ferry landing in hopes that public ownership will help reopen the Potomac River shuttle.

A multistory senior apartment complex in East Baltimore was evacuated Friday morning after firefighters discovered an underground fire, officials said.

Baltimore prosecutors said they are investigating the leak of documents outlining a witness’s cooperation in a high-profile murder-for-hire case, as defense attorneys denied they had provided materials to anyone outside the case.

The Prince George’s County Planning Board considered a proposal that could allow data centers in agricultural and residential areas.

Roughly 60% of the district’s portable classrooms are on elementary campuses.

Democrat Lisa Maisano and Republican Julie Walsh are pitching themselves as a bipartisan slate for Carroll County school board who can steer the conversation away from national politics and back to local issues.

COLUMN | Anne Arundel County is lowering the speed limit on Forest Drive in Annapolis from 40 to 35 mph on Monday, the first big step in a $10 million plan to make this dysfunctional back door to Maryland’s state capital safer.

Human remains found in a creek bed of Back River in Baltimore County last week have been identified as those of a New Jersey woman who went missing in Maryland, police said.

The teenager was at Hammond High School when a school resource officer received a report that the suspect had a gun in his possession, police said.

The Banner and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette earned national honors for sports journalism in the Associated Press Sports Editors contest.

Two people in Southern Maryland tested positive for measles following domestic travel, state health officials announced.

Baltimore prosecutors are seeking emergency court action after documents identifying rapper Keith Ambush as a cooperating witness in a high-profile murder-for-hire case leaked online.

More than 300 birds were seized from a Baltimore pet store this week after animal control officers found them living in unsanitary conditions, leaving the BARCS animal shelter scrambling to care for hundreds of chirping survivors.

Four years after being stabbed on an amphitheater stage, Salman Rushdie sat across a Buffalo, N.Y. courtroom from his convicted attacker Thursday and told jurors for a second time about the ambush that nearly killed him.

The Indian community in Howard County has more than doubled since 2009 and now accounts for 6.7% of the population.

The director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History pushed back Tuesday against a recent White House report that branded the institution’s leadership as radical activists who cannot be trusted.

The aim is to reduce fatalities on the tracks and to allow trains to enter and exit stations at full speed as part of a plan to fully automate the Metro system.

Anita Kassof, exiting executive director of the Baltimore Museum of Industry, said the role “has been one of the great privileges of my career.”