Community issues

Bowie State University has about 20 students at Jessup Correctional Institution working toward a bachelor's degree in sociology.

A 12-year-old was identified as the culprit after seven recent bomb threats targeted schools in Montgomery County, according to Police Chief Marcus Jones.

The Maryland Equitable Justice Collaborative is an advocacy partnership between the attorney general and public defender that will elevate the voices of marginalized communities and bring a renewed focus to developing and implementing criminal justice reform.

A school bus taking students to Vincent Farm Elementary School was involved in a crash in White Marsh.

Lt. Dillon Rinaldo had remained hospitalized at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center since the fire, but his condition worsened.

Ever since the Israel-Hamas War erupted into an international crisis, its tremors have reverberated through families of the Jewish and Palestinian diasporas all the way to Maryland.

While court-ordered child support can address financial needs, it carries considerations that can complicate the lives of parents and children, writer and single parent Alanah Nichole Davis says.

The summers he and his cousins spent duckpin bowling at Southway lanes were the best, Mel Tansill says.

Pedro Argote was conspicuously absent last Thursday when a Maryland judge granted his wife a divorce and sole custody of their four children, citing “shocking” testimony about the abuse that Argote was accused of inflicting upon them for years.

Jason Billingsley, 32, of Sandtown-Winchester, is being held without bail in the Baltimore Central Booking & Intake Center, according to jail records.

A teenager was injured in a shooting at a playground at Edmondson Heights Elementary School in Woodlawn just after most students were released.

A new nonpartisan audit also uncovered problems with a consulting contract for the coronavirus vaccine rollout that was expanded to other services and ballooned from $3.8 million to $83.3 million without sufficient justification.

The attacks on Israel have left many in Baltimore's Jewish community fearing for the safety of loved ones and friends living there, Marc Terrill, president of The Associated: Jewish Federation of Baltimore, says.

It’s not clear how a gunman found Judge Andrew Wilkinson's Hagerstown home Friday night and shot him to death in his driveway. Maybe he followed him home, or maybe he stalked him on the Internet. But Maryland lawmakers knew this kind of violence was a threat.

For the Jewish community, the Hamas attack on Israel felt like the history of atrocities against Jewish people repeating itself, Rachel Garbow Monroe is president and CEO of The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation.

Councilman Ryan Dorsey said he asked city officials to have a plan of action “within a month” and that he hopes they will implement it “before the end of the year.”

With a historic investment, SB7 is tasked with something both novel and daunting: using money from developers to fill in the gaps left behind by generations of neglect.

Rondell Henry, 32, of Germantown, Maryland, pleaded guilty in August to attempting to perform an act of violence at Washington Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis agreed to sentence Henry to the jail time that he already has served since his March 2019 arrest.

The funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen at 5200 N. Charles St., according to a social media post by the city’s firefighters union.

The Baltimore region effort is now eligible for nearly $500 million in federal funds over five years that the Greater Baltimore Committee estimates will generate $3.2 billion in economic impact and 52,000 jobs by 2030.