Community issues

Marquis Brown, 20, of Washington, D.C., is standing in Baltimore Circuit Court on charges including conspiracy to commit murder.

Recent surveys show the number of young blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay has dropped roughly 50% since a recent peak in 2010, but a new assessment couldn’t identify the prime culprit behind the decline.

Police have recently intensified patrols in Towson following multiple Peeping Tom complaints at apartment complexes.

The National Law Enforcement Museum in Washington, D.C., unveiled a D.C. sniper exhibit last week, which spurred memories for longtime investigators of a deadly and frightening three weeks in the DMV.

Officials from the Maryland Department of Health say the residents briefly shared a plane with an infected cruise ship passenger.

Nearly a month after Branson Oduor’s body was pulled from the harbor, the chief medical examiner ruled his death accidental.

Alexander Norenberg, a 16-year-old junior at Towson High School, died Thursday after being hit by a car while riding his bike.

The Howard County Ethics Commission dismissed a complaint alleging a conflict of interest involving Steve Quisenberry and Kelly Madigan in the search for the county’s first inspector general.

Montgomery County Police on Monday identified the driver killed this weekend near Glenbrook Road and Audubon Road in Bethesda.

Prince George’s County Police have identified a 17-year-old who was fatally stabbed over the weekend as Amari Clarke of Suitland.

More than a year after Howard County officials pledged to increase police presence at The Mall in Columbia, law enforcement is preparing to move in — along with more than a half dozen new businesses.

A French woman and an American tested positive for the hantavirus, as nations around the world scrambled Monday to repatriate passengers from a cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak and quarantine or isolate them.

Baltimore’s transportation department plans to add or improve 17 miles of dedicated bike lanes across the city over the next three years.

At the Urban Farm Incubator, participants are working to increase access to fresh food for Prince Georgians and to teach young people about health and farming.

COLUMN | Baltimore has been waiting a very long time for the Red Line train to come to fruition. It’s still on the table, but the city deserves more.

Women at the Baltimore teaching hospital say pharmacist Matthew Bathula secretly accessed intimate photos, emails and camera feeds from their online accounts.

A Bolton Hill woman woke up to a stranger standing over her bed early Friday morning and fought him off until he ran away.

A four-vehicle crash involving a Maryland Transit Administration bus early Sunday in Anne Arundel County left a 33-year-old woman dead and two injured.

Jason Christian Evans, 51, used fake currency and Federal Reserve notes to buy items from at least five Weis Market and Giant Food Stores.

After the Orioles gave out thousands of Tupac bobbleheads at their game Friday, the bandanna-wearing hit is resurfacing on the resale market as people try dumping them for quick cash.