Community issues

COMMENTARY | The only hope we need to have for athletes competing in any high school sport is that they have a chance to practice what they love while building confidence, strength and resilience.

Three workers were hospitalized with electric shock and burn injuries after a possible explosion in an electric shaft at the Medical Center Metro Station in Bethesda on Monday.

“This trend is unsafe and it’s dangerous," said Nikki Cobbs, chief of aquatics for the city’s Department of Recreation and Parks.

Baltimore Sheriff Sam Cogen and challenger Sabrina Tapp-Harper face off in a contentious primary while a workplace discrimination lawsuit looms in the background.

This skeeter fight involves two communities: North Linthicum, with about 700 households, and Linthicum-Shipley, with closer to 3,000.

Three people — a Baltimore County Police officer, an armed suspect and a bystander — were shot Sunday morning when gunfire broke out at a wooded park off Milford Mill Road in Pikesville, authorities said.

Two Baltimore pools reopened Sunday after being closed Saturday due to separate incidents involving vandalism and safety concerns.

The Elkton man, 33-year-old Thomas Logue, had just bought a silver 2014 Chevrolet Caprice equipped with a pressurized nitrous oxide tank to give its engine a performance boost.

Baltimore neighborhoods face challenges such as vacant homes. But they also include longtime homeowners who are pillars of their close communities. Deborah Harris is that in Cherry Hill.

Baltimore’s week of LGBTQIA+ Pride celebrations kicks off this week, with dozens of events happening around the city.

Sails of Hope Chesapeake, a primarily volunteer-run organization established in 2022, has conducted 367 sails in four years benefiting 1,748 people affected by cancer.

Severe thunderstorms capable of producing 70 mph wind gusts and quarter-sized hail prompted watches and warnings across Western and Central Maryland, including the Baltimore area, on Saturday afternoon.

The Patterson Park Pool was closed on a scorching Saturday afternoon due to vandalism overnight, city officials said.

Nasir Majied, the 22-year-old man who was shot and killed while driving just before a traffic circle on York Road, was a student at Towson University.

One man was killed and three others wounded in two separate shootings overnight in Baltimore as the weekend began, police said.

The collapsed warehouse recalls a character from the heyday of Baltimore’s red-light district, a manhunt stretching nearly 30 years and the FBI theory that a once-prominent businessman known as “Crazy John” jumped bail with a chunk of money and escaped to a faraway island.

Kevin Curley, the longtime McDaniel College basketball coach who amassed the most wins in school history, died May 27 of cancer. He was 54.

Baltimore County Police say the shooting happened along York Road in Towson Friday afternoon.

Baltimore Circuit Judge Jeffrey Geller convicted Raymond Lunn, 32, of Woodbourne Heights, of attempted rape, assault and a sex offenses at Johns Hopkins University.

Months after Trump’s NOAA unexpectedly slashed support for the Horn Point oyster hatchery, state leaders stepped in to to help — then the agency reneged on its cut.