Community issues

A poll from Anne Arundel Community College shows no runaway leader in the Democratic primary to replace Steuart Pittman, the term-limited county executive.

Citing Kiewit’s high cost estimates, Maryland will seek a new builder on the open market.

Dimples Bar & Grill, a Locust Point cheesesteak spot that opened last November, is opening a second location in Fells Point.

Baltimore tried something new to address its unchecked deer population, placing sharpshooters in three parks after dark to cull the rampant ungulates that have decimated habitats and native plants.

LaQuicha Brown is the owner and operator of a chocolate-covered strawberry business with a pink shop in Federal Hill called Berries by Quicha.

Carfentanil first alarmed officials a decade ago, when it was linked to a wave of overdose deaths before fading. Now, amid an unpredictable drug supply, it appears to be making a deadly comeback.

A neighborhood revolt against a proposed park in Crownsville has become a flash point in Anne Arundel County’s struggle to provide access to its more than 530 miles of waterfront.

A former student at McDonogh School is alleging in a new lawsuit that a faculty member sexually abused her, which she says she reported to the school nearly 40 years ago.

Howard County begins construction on a mile-long flood tunnel in Ellicott City to prevent future deadly flash floods and protect historic Main Street.

Prosecutors may not disclose the names of more than a dozen clergy and laypeople accused of hiding or failing to report child sexual abuse within the Archdiocese of Baltimore, the Maryland Supreme Court ruled on Monday.

Police said a suspect accused of armed robbery at Montgomery Mall on Saturday resisted arrest, bashing his head into a police cruiser.

Baltimore County fire officials said Monday that they had brought under control a blaze that consumed the first and second floors of a historic Black church in Catonsville.

Unionized workers at Towson Town Center’s Apple Store have filed a grievance and unfair labor practice charge against the tech giant as the store prepares to close in June.

Tiago Alexandre Sousa-Martins, a Portuguese immigrant whom immigration agents shot and critically wounded on Christmas Eve in Glen Burnie, pleaded guilty in federal court to damaging government property.

Quontay Spinks, 20, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to killing Antonio Peoples, 36, and other crimes in Baltimore.

U.S. Park Police said one person was injured after a tour bus traveling on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway overturned.

One person died and six people were injured in a Monday morning shooting connected to an illegal car rally in Columbia, according to Howard County Police.

Shraga Lerner grew up in Pikesville. Records show he played a key role in an alleged mortgage fraud scheme tied to a small group of New York investors.

Maryland State Police are investigating a crash in Prince George’s County that killed a highway worker Saturday morning on the Capital Beltway.

Officials say they are investigating a possible arson at two vacant buildings at a state-owned psychiatric hospital in Southern Carroll County on Saturday morning.