Community issues

Before colonizers arrived, the Piscataway, or “the people where the rivers bend,” lived here. Sumwalt Run flowed beneath an open sky as a tiny capillary connecting what is now North Baltimore to the Atlantic Ocean.

A 2-year-old died in a house fire Friday evening in Washington County near Hagerstown, the Maryland State Fire Marshal said.

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Andre Bailey, 27, of Madison-Eastend, pleaded guilty on Friday in Baltimore Circuit Court to second-degree murder, use of a handgun during the commission of a crime of violence and illegal possession of a regulated firearm for a sentence of 60 years in prison with two decades suspended. D’Asia Garrison was the first person killed in 2023 in Baltimore.

Mason Halsey, a midshipman first class, died on New Year’s Day, the Naval Academy said in a social media post. The cause of death was not immediately released.

The U.S. Mint will feature Maryland's own Harriet Tubman on three commemorative coins this year.

In a first-of-its-kind-study, Maryland researchers will try to infect people with flu to learn how to stop it.

The federal trial of indicted Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins won’t occur for more than another year, a judge decided this week.

Two people were killed and 28 others were wounded in the shooting, which happened at the Brooklyn Homes housing project on July 2, 2023.

A final NTSB report on a 2021 Washington Metro derailment concluded that the DC-area transit authority had been aware for years of a safety issue that caused the wheels on the new 7000-series Metro cars to expand wider than the tracks. The agency was previously led by Paul Wiedefeld, now Maryland’s transportation secretary.

Attorneys on both sides are again seeking limits for the other ahead of Mosby’s federal mortgage fraud trial. Mosby, the former Baltimore state’s attorney, was convicted of perjury in November.

Marylanders are bracing for a storm that forecasters say will dump snow, sleet and rain across the state.

Toxicity has its grip on yet another online app.

Jessica Pachler called me two days after Christmas. There was another pop pop-pop pop outside her home that afternoon, a sound instantly recognizable as gunfire to anyone living in parts of Annapolis.

AACPS has introduced new Facebook pages tailored to families who speak Chinese, Korean, Urdu and Vietnamese.

The medical monitor resigned 10 days after the state of Maryland made a lengthy argument against his findings.

U.S. District Chief Judge James K. Bredar called Correy Cawthorn, a/k/a “Fat Correy,” 25, of Baltimore, "profoundly dangerous" when sentencing him on Thursday on a charge of racketeering conspiracy.

In fact, “The Wire” contained a minor character named Bird, who appeared in three episodes of the show’s first two seasons. The character, Marquis “Bird” Hilton, was part of a drug crew and also convicted of murder charges. A juicy coincidence.

Calvin Ford, trainer for champion boxer Gervonta Davis, is facing felony assault charges in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Superpedestrian, a Massachusetts-based tech startup that was one of two scooter operators in Baltimore, pulled its operations in Baltimore and 17 other cities effective Dec. 31. Tech company Spin continues to operate in Baltimore, despite being acquired by a company that has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.