Community issues

The lawyer for a North Bethesda woman charged with attempted murder this month said his client stabbed the man to save her life.

Shrey Parikh of San Bernardino, California, captured the 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee championship Thursday night after surviving a dramatic, rapid-fire spell-off in the nationally televised finals in Washington.

An older man died in Calvert County this month due to the heat, Maryland Department of Health officials said, the first heat-related death in the state this year.

A Maryland law that will ban Glocks and Glock-style guns, "many of the most popular handguns in America," is unconstitutional, according to a lawsuit filed by the National Rifle Association, Firearms Policy Coalition and Second Amendment Foundation.

A former councilman, a current council candidate and a former chief of staff are among the seven candidates who want to replace Wade Kach.

An 11-year-old was shot while playing on a playground in West Baltimore Wednesday night during an apparent drive-by shooting targeting a man who was also struck by gunfire, officials said.

Firefighters responded to the 2200 block of Guilford Avenue just before 12:30 p.m. and found the second floor of a 2.5-story rowhome engulfed in flames, according to the Baltimore City Fire Department.

James Dodson Jr., 39, of Emmitsburg, faces a maximum sentence of 1 1/2 to five years in prison.

Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates is distancing himself from indicted state Sen. Dalya Attar after a flyer surfaced promoting his endorsement of Attar and other candidates.

Several sheriffs in Maryland are filing a lawsuit against the governor, the state, and the attorney general over recent immigration legislation.

Terrance Brainell Williams was arrested Wednesday in connection with a fatal shooting earlier this month outside the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, according to Montgomery County Police.

A 22-year-old man was jailed and held without bond after Baltimore County Police said he told them voices in his head prompted him to kill his brother’s friend.

The Rocky Point Golf Course’s clubhouse was a pet project of former Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is asking the federal government for disaster aid to help farms and wineries that had crops damaged by a late-spring freeze.

The mid-Atlantic beaksedge was recently declared threatened and endangered by Maryland’s Department of Natural Resources. It joined the list of endangered and rare plants this year, alongside seven others.

County Councilwoman Allison Pickard holds a commanding fundraising lead in the Democratic primary.

A strong cold front could bring showers and damaging thunderstorms across Maryland on Wednesday, putting parts of the state under a flood watch.

These are the moments that lingered just a little too long, and made someone wonder about a next time.

A Baltimore County judge is weighing a “complicated” and “unprecedented” request to appoint a special prosecutor.

Baltimore has reduced its count of vacant homes from 16,000 to fewer than 12,000 during Mayor Brandon Scott’s five years in office, but there are questions about the count and the fundraising needed to continue the effort.