Community issues

The nature center has a close relationship with the Baltimore American Indian Center, which helps educate Irvine’s staff on various traditions the nature center can share with the greater public.

When an order came into Tilghman Island Seafood for almost $100,000 of Chesapeake catfish, everything seemed legit — at least at first. Then the fish disappeared in the Bronx.

The National Transportation Safety Board met Tuesday to discuss the causes of the Key Bridge disaster. Here are five takeaways from the hearing.

Emergency crews rushed to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor on Tuesday evening after a car plunged off a pier and sank, leaving the driver who was pulled from the water in critical condition.

Nearly 20 months after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed into the Patapsco River, federal officials are poised to make a final ruling about how it happened.

An employee at the recently opened Bubbakoo’s Burritos in Edgewater is charged with stabbing his manager at the restaurant on Saturday.

The local NAACP says it was never consulted about the Anne Arundel County formal apology for slavery, despite its name appearing on communication about it. What happened?

City Solicitor Ebony Thompson said the city would use every legal resource at its disposal.

The buyback program in Rockville collected more than 300 guns to be destroyed — the most ever in the initiative's history.

Arundel Mills celebrated its 25th anniversary this week and is looking to the future. Toy retailer Toys R Us is opening a flagship location in the mall later this week, and online furniture giant Wayfair plans to open an outlet store there in 2026.

Videos posted in a Southeast Baltimore social media group Sunday show a group of agents wearing black tactical gear marked “Police” dragging a man along a sidewalk in Highlandtown.

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday it is redefining the scope of the nation’s bedrock clean water law.

A Maryland law aimed at keeping medical debt from ruining people’s creditworthiness went into effect Oct. 1, and 27 days later the Trump administration said the state and 14 others were violating federal law.

The NTSB will discuss probable cause of the Key Bridge collapse during a meeting Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, nine crew members of the Dali ship that struck the bridge are stuck in Baltimore under a deal between the ship owner and U.S. government.

The Justice Department engaged in a “disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps” in the process of securing an indictment against former FBI Director James Comey, a federal judge ruled Monday in directing prosecutors to provide defense lawyers with all grand jury materials from the case.

The new bridge is now expected to open by the end of 2030 and cost between $4.3 billion and $5.2 billion — more than twice initial estimates — Bruce Gartner, executive director of the Maryland Transportation Authority, said Monday.

The Baltimore County Public Library’s CEO announced Monday night that the system’s human resources director has departed in the wake of an uproar over the firing of part-time librarians, which was quickly rescinded.

A judge found Iris Alonzo-Salgado guilty of first-degree murder in the 2023 death of a teen girl who was stabbed with a machete in the woods in Olney at the direction of MS-13.

Four members of the Baltimore Police Department are suspended amid a criminal investigation in California, the department confirmed Monday.

Matthew Middleton, 34, of Hillen, pleaded guilty on Monday in Baltimore Circuit Court to two counts of second-degree assault and one count of possession of a dangerous weapon.