Community issues

All lanes were shut down for several hours.

The MTA will continue to analyze options next year and solicit feedback from the public.

Luis Rodriguez filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Baltimore Police Department for what his attorney Malcolm Ruff described as a “traumatic and unnecessary” injury. The suit claims gross negligence and battery, and it requests a jury trial.

Even with the reduction in killings — Baltimore will record its lowest homicide total since tallying 211 in 2014 — the city’s murder rate remains among the highest in the nation and is similar to what it was in the 1990s.

Baltimore is seeing fewer murders than in recent years, but many residents say the city doesn’t feel any safer, and they express a lack of confidence in the ability of city leaders to reduce violent crime, Goucher College political scientist Mileah Kromer says.

Since stepping down as police commissioner this summer, Michael Harrison has consulted in Memphis and New Orleans, and may soon be in Chicago and Minneapolis.

A jury is deliberating whether to convict Joseph Black for accelerating his car during a 2022 traffic stop, dragging Det. Sgt. Kenneth Ramberg and seriously injuring him.

A Dunbar High School student was arrested for a handgun violation on Wednesday, school officials say.

The board of directors for the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association (SWAPA) has agreed in principle to a new deal valued at $12 billion with the airline, the union has announced.

Tristan Jackson, an 18-year-old charged in last summer’s Brooklyn Day mass shooting, has been ordered to be transferred from an adult jail to a juvenile facility.

A new report found that Maryland could see costs savings if lawmakers provided money upfront to prevent the displacement of those most at risk.

A federal judge on Wednesday turned away an initial attack on the use of race as a factor in admissions at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, saying it is unclear if the policy is illegal under a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision.

In November, more than 1 in 5 people up for renewal lost their public health insurance because they did not turn in the necessary paperwork.

A man has been charged with the fatal shooting of his two-year-old daughter Sunday in Northwest Baltimore.

The online mental health care is meant to supplement — not replace — the work of existing school counselors and social workers, said Superintendent Myriam Rogers.

In West Friendship Park where the Howard County Living Farm Heritage Museum recently closed, the more than 340 acres of land will now be home to the county’s new Office of Agriculture to support county farmers.

Maryland is on the path to gain control of almost 300 acres on the Chesapeake Bay just outside Annapolis, a potentially huge victory for increasing public access to the Chesapeake Bay.

Daniel is stepping down after seven years heading Baltimore’s 137-year-old library system.

The lawsuit seeks five years of ATF “trace data,” which shows where a gun recovered by police or other officers was manufactured to where it was sold at retail.

The Central Maryland Transportation Alliance gave the state a D+ overall, with failing grades in affordability and connectivity to jobs via transit. It dished out five C’s, the state’s highest grade this year, across 12 different areas.