Community issues

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A Johns Hopkins student helped launch a project that deploys volunteers to hospices around the country to collect the final words of the dying.

The Korean American food influencer behind Nomtastic Kim, an Instagram page with over 122,000 followers, is spotlighting 100 Asian restaurants across Maryland to encourage people to patronize local, immigrant-owned eateries.

Ryan Hall, 51, of Woodbine, who was on the force for 27 years, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Baltimore to two counts of sexual exploitation of children.

In a 30-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Maddox wrote that while the allegations are “tragic and alarming,” they were not enough to support the claims by families of the victims in the South Stricker Street fire in Baltimore.

A man died after being struck by a Maryland Transit Administration train Tuesday afternoon at Shot Tower Station in Baltimore, officials said.

The Harris family thought they had protected a family home from tax sale in Baltimore City, but an $888 unpaid tax bill sent the property to foreclosure.

The juxtaposition between how Samuel Brown lived his life and how his life ended is devastating to parts of Baltimore’s Black community, hundreds of whom showed up to Brown’s funeral Tuesday.

The Maryland Attorney General’s Independent Investigations Division identified the Howard County Police officers involved in the March 1, 2026, fatal shooting of a Columbia resident.

The man, Peter Ruy, was hit at the intersection of Harford Road and 5th Avenue in Parkville around 8 p.m. on Friday, according to Baltimore County Police.

First responders found a driver who had been ejected from a Toyota Camry. They pronounced him dead at the scene, police said.

A judge sentenced Jorge Rueda Landeros to 25 years in prison Tuesday for the beating death of an American University professor at her Bethesda home in 2010. The maximum sentence in the case was 30 years.

A pedestrian was killed in Rockville when a van struck him on Sunday night.

Seeking to make evictions more humane, the Anne Arundel County Council passed a bill Monday night to overhaul the process in the county.

According to Baltimore Department of Finance projections, the loss of all that garbage will yield about $4 million less than what budget writers had anticipated.

An Oxon Hill-based computer gaming champion is facing deportation, and his family says his life would be in peril in his native Cameroon.

Aisha “Pinky” Cole, the founder of the Slutty Vegan fast-food chain, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, federal court records show.

A former substitute teacher at the Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood Early Learning Center is incarcerated and under investigation for child sex abuse material distribution, officials said.

A local baseball coach was charged with sexually soliciting a minor and soliciting child sexual abuse material from her.

The attorney general’s office has not yet released the body camera video from the incident between Baltimore County Police and Samuel Brown.