Community issues

September has always been a difficult month to identify with one season. Is it summer or fall? The beginning or the end?

The bus contractor that abruptly canceled the routes will offer $8,000 signing bonuses to attract new drivers, the Howard County schools superintendent said Thursday.

Federal prosecutors want to seize more than $100,000 from a stock account belonging to the late Roy McGrath, alleging the money traces to a fraudulent severance payment.

In preparation for the Maryland Cycling Classic, the following roads are expected to close beginning Friday.

Baltimore sailor Donald Lawson likely had little warning before his sailing trimaran Defiant capsized hundreds of miles off the coast of Mexico in July. We might never know what happened that day or what became of Lawson, who likely perished. Was he prepared to succeed? Was he destined to fail?

Kanisha Spence, 44, was acquitted of the more serious charge of first-degree murder in the October 2022 fatal shooting of Marquise Powell

Baltimore Police charged two more people, a 14-year-old boy and 18-year-old man, in the July 2 mass shooting at a block party in the Brooklyn Homes housing project of South Baltimore.

A Buick Enclave traveling west in the eastbound lanes of MD Route 32 collided with the bus in the area of I-95. The driver of the Buick was pronounced dead at the scene.

Despite its ambitions to transform student transportation with top-of-the-line technology and better pay for bus drivers, Zum seems to be suffering from the same labor shortage that’s hampered school districts across the U.S.

Here’s how a new partnership may get the group closer to its goals.

A Baltimore County Circuit Court jury has awarded $4 million in damages to a former state prison inmate who was brutally beaten by three other inmates at the Maryland Correctional Training Center in 2017, according to his attorney. The inmate said a corrections official opened the door to his cell and did not stop the attack.

The Baltimore Police Department defended its cleanup of the Brooklyn Homes crime scene. Experts have said it was flawed.

A Howard County Circuit Court jury ruled Wednesday evening that a former Black public works employee endured racial harassment while working with the bureau that administers and maintains the county’s public water and wastewater systems.

In court documents, Adam Michael Nettina admitted to sending anti-LGBTQ messages to lawmakers in Maryland and Virginia. One of them was Del. Nick Allen, a Democrat from Baltimore County.

A jury in Baltimore Circuit Court deliberated for about 1 1/2 hours on Wednesday without reaching a verdict in the trial of Kanisha Spence, 44, of Poppleton.

Officers need more training and better supervision on how to write tickets, acting police commissioner says.

The superintendent of schools has pledged a forensic audit to ensure transportation problems will never happen again.

A number of walkers and runners on Rossville Boulevard said speeding is a constant issue in the area. It is unclear if speed played a role in this crash.

A 100-page report by the Baltimore Police Department on its response reveals an agency disconnected from the community it serves.

Medicare’s ability to negotiate drug prices will result in lower out-of-pocket costs for beneficiaries as well as premiums for Part D, Medicare’s prescription drug benefit, experts say.