Community issues

Metro closed four Red Line stations this summer to complete construction projects. Here’s what happened when I tested the shuttle bus workaround.

The Sisters of Bon Secours USA sold a portion of its land to the Howard County Conservancy as a way to ensure it will never be developed.

A tractor trailer crashed into several homes and a light pole in Dundalk on Wednesday afternoon, according to the Baltimore County Fire Department.

Five people in Carroll County contracted measles after visiting a high-risk area outside the state, Maryland Department of Health officials said Wednesday in a news release.

Leon’s Backroom, Baltimore’s oldest gay bar, announced Wednesday that it will temporarily close on July 16 after the death of owner Ron Singer last week.

The National Transportation Safety Board said in a report that multiple people called to report the smell of gas in the hours leading up to the explosion.

Though no official source has been identified, Michigan officials say their investigation points to lettuce or other salad greens.

Police confirmed officers responded to the 10400 block of Baltimore Avenue late Monday morning for a reported bank robbery.

Investigators are still working to determine what type of firearm was involved, how the girl was shot, and whether the weapon was properly stored.

The number of emergency room and urgent care visits due to heat-related illnesses spiked from 55 to nearly 500 the week of the July Fourth heat wave, according to state data.

An attorney for Smith sent Moore and his communications staff a letter on June 29 demanding that Moore retract a statement and apologize.

A major runway at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport is temporarily closing next week as construction crews kick-start tarmac rehabilitation.

Thirty people were shot — two of them fatally — during an annual event called Brooklyn Day on July 2, 2023.

State police and corrections officials are conducting a “potential criminal misconduct” investigation into staff at a Western Maryland prison after the latest in a rash of killings of prisoners across the state.

The order came a day after an ICE officer shot and killed a Colombian man in Maine, renewing criticism of the agency’s tactics during enforcement operations.

Reginald Gray spent five years in federal prison, was legally prohibited from owning or using a gun, and threatened his son’s mother and maternal grandmother.

The National Weather Service issued a heat advisory for much of Central Maryland, including Baltimore City, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Howard, Harford, Montgomery and Prince George’s counties.

A three-member Maryland Democratic Party committee will discuss Ronald Rosenbluth’s fate Wednesday.

Maryland residents had their natural gas and electricity service shut off for nonpayment nearly 115,000 times last year, according to data filed with state regulators.

A 46-year-old man was fatally shot by police on Sunday evening after officers responded to reports of an armed person at a bus stop in Gaithersburg, said state investigators.