Community issues

Portraits of judges from the 1800s have been removed from the historic Anne Arundel County Circuit Courthouse

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Tributes from friends and Maryland lawmakers continue to pour in for Pat Warren, a former WJZ anchor and reporter for nearly 30 years, who died.

Charles Johnson, 21, and Eniyah Smith, 20, left behind a 3-year-old daughter.

Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, an unwavering voice of moderate conservatism and the first woman to serve on the nation’s highest court, died Friday. She was 93.

Baltimore County Police took a student into custody Friday after a report of an armed individual sent Kenwood High School into a brief lockdown.

Are you a regular MARC train rider? The Maryland Transit Administration wants your input.

Fran Jaques parlayed a chance meeting at a party into a local journalism career that lasted 30 years. She wrote about hiking, parks and gardening at first, earning $15 per column, and later wrote obits and hugely popular columns on homes and cooking.

The panel was due to vote on three bills that aim to change zoning and street design around the Inner Harbor.

A long overdue library rental was finally returned to the Enoch Pratt Free Library’s central branch on Cathedral Street.

A Kentucky-based charity purporting to raise money for veterans has been ordered to stop doing business in Maryland because it hasn't filed the requisite paperwork or mandatory disclosures.

Your home in Baltimore could have a lead water pipe. Here’s how to investigate.

The man was serving out the remainder of a federal sentence for a 2004 conviction of robbing a bank in a residential re-entry program when he committed the new robberies, according to the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office.

A deadline is looming at the end of the year for Maryland to decide whether to keep or replace the troubled, for-profit company that provides medical care in state prisons and the Baltimore City jail complex.

Poor conditions at Baltimore City Public Schools reflect a lack of care and concern for the students who attend those schools, students interviewed by Johns Hopkins University researchers say.

The installation of a video camera system has begun on the Harford County hiking trail where Rachel Morin’s body was found in August.

The five Dunbar High School students who suddenly became ill on Monday had ingested marijuana, according to Baltimore City Public Schools.

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources said Wednesday it has submitted emergency regulations in an effort to protect the spawning population of striped bass, also known as rockfish. The proposal would extend existing prohibitions on recreational fishing for rockfish and push them into May.

The rate of improper arrests dropped from 10.4% to 4% in two random samplings of 200 cases in 2019 and 2021.

David Caldwell, a supervisor at the Safe Streets outpost in Belair-Edison, is charged with illegally possessing ammunition.