Community issues

Rinaldo is the second firefighter to succumb to injuries sustained in a rowhouse fire in Northwest Baltimore earlier this month.

For nearly a year, the building’s been vacant.

Growing up, Elazar Zavaletta heard that trans people, like him, are an "abomination" in the eyes of God. Now a Lutheran pastor, Zavaletta has transformed his pain into solidarity with marginalized people.

Peyton Brewer-Ross was among those killed when a gunman opened fire at two different locations.

Maryland must uphold recently enacted legal protections for children who are subject to interrogation by police, say Jessica Feierman, an attorney and senior managing director at the Juvenile Law Center, and Emily Virgin, an attorney and director of advocacy and government affairs at Human Rights for Kids.

In the fall of 2007, Ronnie Simpson, an accidental Texan by way of Iraq, a motorcycle salesman and apathetic college student, came to the conclusion he did not care whether he lived or died as he disappeared down a highway in San Antonio on a speeding motorcycle with the police in pursuit.

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Edgewood High School staff found a loaded firearm in a student’s locker on Friday, according to the Harford County Sheriff’s Office.

Scores of first responders, state and city leaders and mourners gathered for the funeral of Baltimore City firefighter Rodney Pitts III, who died in the line of duty Oct. 19.

The Baltimore County Police Department is investigating the arrest Wednesday of a 16-year-old in front of the Baltimore County Public Library in Woodlawn, where last month, officers were accused of using excessive force during the arrest of a different teenager inside the library.

Just hours before he was killed last week, a Maryland judge known for being fair and even-keeled calmly explained his ruling in a divorce case following hours of emotional testimony. On the losing end of the ruling was the man suspected of fatally shooting Washington County Circuit Court Judge Andrew Wilkinson later that day in the driveway outside his home. For Wilkinson’s family, friends and colleagues, it’s an unfathomable end to an exceptional life.

School system confirms the victims were students and their families had been notified.

Heavy Seas, Maryland’s largest remaining craft brewer, is the first to use a hop native to the state, discovered on a veterinarian’s Frederick County farm.

The firearms were found during routine screenings of carry-on items at the airports.

A Maryland sheriff said Thursday that the body of a man wanted in connection with the shooting death of a judge in Hagerstown has been found.

FBI spokeswoman says the FBI was “conducting court-authorized activity” at the location.

Audio of the emergency dispatch calls placed that afternoon include two calls for “Mayday” and a scramble for information.

A made-in-Baltimore store and all-day breakfast spot are among the new tenants coming to the Light Street Pavilion.

Eggleston went missing in May 2017 before her baby shower. The 22-year-old was eight months pregnant at the time.

Incidents represent another failure in the long list of deficiencies that Dr. Michael Puisis, an independent monitor, has been noting with health care in city jails.