Community issues

The Maryland social services agency has been shortchanging welfare theft victims for months, according to advocates and policy experts, violating state law and potentially saving millions, an investigation by The Baltimore Banner found.

Closing the digital divide is vital to expanding opportunities for underserved communities in Baltimore, Dr. Alvin C. Hathaway Sr., retired senior pastor of Union Baptist Church in Baltimore, says.

Meet Royale Bonds.

A commission studying transportation funding options voted Wednesday to make six recommendations to the General Assembly.

Zum, the company contracted to operate school buses for the Howard County Public School System, said Tuesday evening that drivers have chosen to continue to work without union representation.

More than three dozen men, identified only by their initials, filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the state and the Department of Juvenile Services, alleging they were sexually abused as young boys while in the custody of the Charles H. Hickey Jr. School in Parkville.

U.S. safety regulators say the company will send out a software update to fix the problems.

The appetite for change is clear. But the plan’s details, at least for now, are less so.

The lack of livable and affordable homes in Baltimore is a growing issue.

Policymakers at every level have failed to address conditions in Baltimore’s underserved neighborhoods that continue to harm Black children, Kevin Mcleod, a longtime children’s advocate and coach, says.

The rail car that experienced an electrical fire recently — triggering the suspension of Baltimore’s entire light rail line last week — had received a scheduled rehabilitation prior to the incident, Maryland’s top transit official said Tuesday.

Baltimore’s Department of Transportation is trying to crack down on impatient drivers with new red-light cameras at certain intersections.

Maryland’s state judiciary is accepting applications to replace a circuit court judge who was killed earlier this year by a man whose divorce case the judge was presiding over, authorities have said.

For as long as I’ve been an adult, I’ve been petrified of costumed characters, including Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, mascots and Mickey Mouse and all his friends at Disneyland.

Keith Luckey faces charges of second-degree murder, use of a handgun during the commission of a crime of violence, reckless endangerment and related offenses in the deadly shooting of Kevin Torres on Nov. 7, 2022.

For 20 years, Kevin Brown, who went by “Buster” or “Bustah,” made Fells Point a little warmer, safer and cleaner. He died late last month at 65.

A horse and buggy collided with a pickup truck at an intersection in Maryland, ejecting all four passengers of the buggy and seriously injuring two, authorities said.

The money would be put toward at least 35,700 properties across Baltimore, including in neighborhoods that typically don’t see much government investment.

Maryland environmental officials are warning residents about eating 15 species of fish with levels of chemicals that could cause health problems.

Craig Glendenning’s name appears scrubbed from the Howard County Council website this week.