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One person is dead after exchanging gunfire with three Baltimore County Police officers in Parkville and a second person was found dead inside a home late Friday night, the department said.

Peter Gibbons-Neff erases a 300-mile deficit to finish 57th among 58 finishers in Mini Transat.

Schools in Howard and Montgomery counties are not doing enough to ensure that Palestinian and Muslim students are not intimidated or silenced as tensions heighten during the Middle East crisis, parents of those students say.

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The museum said police are investigating but gave no other details.

Maryland pediatricians report vaccine shipments far below what’s needed, and the CDC released guidance last month instructing providers on how to prioritize the few doses they have.

Maybe your family has this tale, too. Somewhere along the way, one of my ancestors whose family came from Europe married a Cherokee woman. Sometimes it’s a princess in the telling, sometimes it’s not. Whatever the details or how it was told, it was just not true.

A 10 vehicle crash closed parts of Interstate 95 in Harford County on Thanksgiving, sending two people to the hospital, Maryland State Police said.

Volunteer lawyers provide legal protection and justice for many Marylanders, which improves their lives and strengthens their communities, the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service says.

Baltimore City has given locals plenty of reasons to feel grateful this Thanksgiving. Here are a few of our favorites.

The Baltimore City District Court’s Re-Entry Project gives ex-offenders the opportunity to turn their lives around, Judge Nicole Pastore, the project’s founder, says.

Getting those carving knives sharpened is a ritual among Baltimore-area families renewing their various Thanksgiving dinner traditions.

The Anne Arundel County Library’s board recently rejected a request by employees to form a union, maintaining that it didn’t have authority to accept such a petition until enabling legislation is passed at the state level. AFSCME disagrees.

In a 2-1 opinion, the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday ruled that Maryland cannot enforce a law that requires people to get a license before they can buy a handgun.

Locust Point Community Garden has until Dec. 15 to vacate the plot of land owned by Under Armour. Baltimore City officials and the Locust Point Civic Association are clearing a portion of Latrobe Park so the program can continue.

The biopic “Napoleon,” directed by Ridley Scott and starring Joaquin Phoenix, has renewed interest in Baltimore’s own Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte and her tussle with France’s famous imperial family.

At its latest round of open houses, the Maryland Transit Administration provided numbers from new data modeling for residents to consider

When you sit down to a holiday meal this season — particularly in Maryland — there’s a good chance you’ll be eating at least one dish invented or inspired by the Black diaspora.

Rosalynn Carter devoted her time as first lady to working on behalf of people with mental illness and carried on that work tirelessly in the years after leaving the White House, Dr. Steven S. Sharfstein says.