Community issues

Pages for the beloved meadery brewery on Facebook and Google Maps list the business as “permanently closed.”

An executive order from the Trump administration could upend research by pausing NIH grants, which scientists say could harm health and the economy.

Richard Bright, a longtime Coppin State University professor, died Jan. 14 in his sleep. He was 89.

Baltimore Police officers responded to a shooting involving a 9-year-old Saturday afternoon.

The Inner Harbor is more than 90% frozen, according to the U.S. National Ice Center.

A community is outraged, and a family is devastated by the murder of Anntoinette Tunstall-Jennings, a Baltimore schoolteacher’s aide, who was fatally shot after watching her grandchild play basketball.  

President Donald Trump pardoned more than 1,500 people in connection with the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Dozens of those people are from Maryland.

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A fire that started at a Dundalk recycling center last Saturday and rekindled this week is nearly extinguished, officials said.

The Harford County State’s Attorney’s Office recently dropped the cases against Regina Jones, the former principal of Aberdeen Middle School, and Tanya Johnson, a paraeducator, after determining that “the facts do not support conviction.”

The rhetoric surrounding immigration and deportations is certain to set large parts of Maryland on edge.

Keyona Dillon, 34, was arrested around noon on Thursday when officers responded to a home in the 2100 block of Firethorn Road, according to the Baltimore County Police Department.

It was not immediately clear whether the suspects are fellow students.

The 52-year-old woman who was killed in a triple shooting Wednesday night in North Baltimore was identified by police as Antionette Jennings.

Maryland’s roads claimed 572 lives last year, preliminary state data shows. That number is 49 fewer than in 2023 but likely to rise.

The free legal services and advocacy group will dissolve by the end of the quarter.

State officials have recorded 24 deaths related to the cold weather as of Jan. 18, according to the latest data available from the Maryland Department of Health.

Carlos Ayala had his case dismissed earlier this week after President Trump issued a blanket pardon to the Jan. 6 participants. Ayala’s trial was scheduled for June.

Here are statements we’ve received from local elected officials around Maryland about immigration and cooperating with federal enforcement.

A mother filed a lawsuit claiming that Howard County school officials failed to provide her son with immediate medical care after he suffered cardiac arrest, leaving him quadriplegic.