Community issues

One resident likened the situation to a “civil war,” while others called it “taxation without representation.”

While investigating the woman's death, officers learned a man who was in a relationship with her had shot himself in Columbia. The man is being treated at an area hospital, police said.

The suspect in the Valentine's Day slaying of a resident at an upscale Potomac senior home was found incompetent to stand trial.

Here’s what you need to know about traffic and transportation ahead of Preakness.

At least one in four police shootings in the country involves a person with symptoms of mental illness, research has shown. Could this woman prevent her friend from a similar fate in Baltimore?

One year after the release of the audit sparked a reckoning over deaths in police custody in Maryland, no one has faced criminal charges in the mislabeled cases. And the medical examiner’s office has not changed any of its determinations.

Baltimore County Police are investigating a shooting in Owings Mills that left two teens with life-threatening injuries.

A federal judge seems prepared to strike down Howard County’s emergency legislation banning private detention centers after a challenge by the developer converting an old office building for an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office.

A Howard County judge rejected a motion by the three ousted members of the Columbia Association’s board of directors seeking to be reinstated ahead of Thursday night’s meeting.

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown announced Thursday that his office won’t charge two officers in connection with a West Baltimore incident in which one of them fatally shot a 70-year-old woman last June.

Baltimore officials announced the pool schedule as part of the city’s plan to tackle extreme heat events come summer.

Baltimore Police officers shot and killed a man who opened fire on them after they responded to a call for an attempted suicide in South Baltimore on Thursday morning, officials said.

A man was killed in North Bethesda on Thursday, Montgomery County Police said. His identity was not immediately available.

Three Baltimore Police officers were injured in a pursuit related to an alleged carjacking that ended in Sandtown-Winchester on Wednesday evening.

State Del. Chao Wu said he has no regrets about participating in democracy after two Republican colleagues, Del. Mark Fisher and Del. Brian Chisholm, refused to apologize for a racist video they posted about him.

Federal prosecutors face significant hurdles in the Key Bridge criminal case against a Singaporean company and an employee believed to be in India, experts say.

Ellen Dolvey Howard, whose career in Baltimore-area schools and educational programs spanned more than five decades, died April 22 at age 97.

Baltimore manages the drinking water supply for some 1.8 million residents in the surrounding region, but severe drought conditions have led to drops in city reservoirs and low flows in Chesapeake Bay tributaries.

Not only do the Baltimore kids get to school safely, but they start the day with physical activity that some parents think helps them focus in the classroom.

A two-alarm fire at a Towson apartment complex has displaced roughly two dozen people, officials said.