Community issues

Police in Maryland can no longer stop and search someone solely based on their suspicion that the person is carrying a gun, the state’s full appeals court ruled in a sweeping opinion that law enforcement agencies worry could curtail police practices statewide.

U.S. District Judge Adam Abelson dismissed portions of a lawsuit over an Elkridge ICE facility, but has yet to rule whether construction on the building may proceed.

After years of relying on parking lots and distant skateparks, Howard County skaters finally get a long-awaited new place to ride when Columbia's Blandair skatepark opens Friday.

The decision came a day after Maryland leaders approved plans to permanently shutter the landfill site and restore it as an extension of Gunpowder Falls State Park.

The order says federal officials will not have access to county property that is not accessible to the general public for the purposes of immigration enforcement, unless they present a valid judicial warrant.

Former Baltimore teacher of the year Dennis Jutras told Chris Hansen he was trying to warn a teen in a Harford County sting operation targeting adults seeking sex with minors.

A Maryland man is facing charges in connection with an attack on two federal Transportation Security Administration officers at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.

Former Baltimore County Inspector General Kelly Madigan sued a former county employee in 2024 because she believed he abused his power while trying to curtail her own, according to court documents unsealed last week.

Anne Arundel County officials lifted a monthslong development moratorium Wednesday that was put in place because of problems with sewer capacity.

The Baltimore Police Department is betting on a unique concept to better serve residents with intellectual and developmental disabilities: a voluntary database for that population.

A report by the National Transportation Safety Board clarifies for the first time that it was debris from a light pole struck by a United Airlines jet, and not the plane itself, that hit a Baltimore-based truck traveling on the New Jersey Turnpike.

President Trump committed millions to restart the shuttered Warrior Run coal plant in Western Maryland, part of federal funding his administration rolled out to buoy a sinking coal industry across the country.

Two women are sought in connection with the murder of a 67-year-old Silver Spring woman, Montgomery County Police said on Thursday.

The race is one of Maryland’s most competitive after U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer announced earlier this year that he was stepping down following four decades in Congress.

Raymond Lunn, 32, of Woodbourne Heights, is standing trial in Baltimore Circuit Court on charges of attempted rape, assault and sex offenses of an international student at Johns Hopkins University.

The Columbia Costco gas station will close for construction this summer, leaving Howard County drivers to seek discounted fuel elsewhere.

The lawsuit, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court of Maryland, says the Hanover casino “palmed off their goods as those of Louis Vuitton.”

Clover Hill Dairy issued a voluntary recall of its ricotta products over a possible listeria contamination.

The state is implementing a modest increase in the gas tax on July 1. This is what that means for drivers.