Community issues

“The water is coming. There’s nothing we can do about that,” said one of the project's architects.

The Maryland Transit Administration envisions the team as a vital link between the state’s Red Line planning team and the communities that the future project will affect.

Louis Maurice Mason, 67, died recently in the Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center. He struggled with homelessness and substance use issues.

The university has promised “critical changes” in the way it responds to future allegations of sexual harassment and sex discrimination.

Police and the FBI on Monday identified Donald Willard, a former Montgomery County resident who died in 2010, as the second suspect in the killing of 16-year-old Pamela Lynn Conyers in 1970. An initial suspect, also deceased, was named a year ago. DNA tests helped solve a case that had gone cold for decades.

Although the Whitehall Plantation offers precious waterfront access, it will cost taxpayers millions to preserve even though it is already protected, and the money won’t benefit the descendants of those once enslaved there.

Most of the proposals on the long wish list Gov. Wes Moore sent to lawmakers are moving forward ahead of a key deadline Monday.

More and more, Glock switches — tiny devices that turn a handgun fully automatic — are appearing on city streets.

An Acura RDX was traveling the wrong direction on Route 100 when it was hit by two other vehicles, according to police.

Seeing Tony! Toni! Toné! and then Goapele live in concert in Baltimore, just months apart, means a lifelong soul music lover is now hooked on what has become known as “neo-soul.”

Governor Moore’s administration is supporting legislation to exempt data centers from environmental scrutiny. Advocates say that amounts to reneging on previous climate promises.

A 21-year-old student was found dead Saturday near a parking garage at Towson University, and police were investigating the circumstances.

An inmate at Jessup Correctional Institution set a fire Friday night that prompted the evacuation of a housing unit at the maximum-security prison, a Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services spokesperson said.

The University of Maryland received multiple complaints of hazing and physical abuse, including beating new or prospective members with a paddle, before it banned fraternities and sororities from engaging in new member activities or holding social events involving alcohol, according to new filings in a lawsuit over the suspensions.

The Hampden Family Center has shuttered for good, but there’s a possibility a new organization could take its place.

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The site, in a historic Black neighborhood between East Joppa Road and East Pennsylvania Avenue, has been cited across Maryland as a case study into the social and economic barriers developers of affordable housing face.

James Michael Harris, 46, stole $29,000 tied to the chocolate sale organized by the parent teacher student association for Stemmers Run Middle School in Essex, Baltimore County.

Matthew Hebert, 44, of Concord Township, Delaware County, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Baltimore on Thursday to knowingly or willfully violating U.S. national defense airspace, according to court records.

Rebecca Atkins was driving through Route 4, a state highway she usually takes to drive to work in Prince Frederick from her home in St. Mary’s County, when she saw wings slamming onto her car.