A gift guide of the best spots to shop in Bel Air and Harford County for the holidays.

Angela Crenshaw has been appointed director of the Maryland Park Service. The veteran park ranger, the first Black woman to hold the position, has headed the state park service in an acting capacity since April.

With her Southern drawl and rich laugh, Peggy Bailey has been a fixture at Jennings Cafe since 1979. At 81, she is retiring from the cafe where she has waited tables and cheered customers for more than four decades.

Growing up, Elazar Zavaletta heard that trans people, like him, are an "abomination" in the eyes of God. Now a Lutheran pastor, Zavaletta has transformed his pain into solidarity with marginalized people.

Linda Malat Tiburzi, a survivor of the notorious child rapist John Merzbacher while a student at the Catholic Community School of Baltimore in the 1970s, died at age 62. She was an advocate for survivors of abuse and rejoiced at the release of the Office of the Maryland Attorney General’s report on child sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

Roland Griffiths, who founded and led the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins, died yesterday. He was a pioneer in bringing psychedelics into mainstream medicine.

An app created by the University of Maryland's Center for Environmental Science allows people to track dolphin sightings, providing insight into the prevalence and behavior of dolphins in the Chesapeake Bay.

When Maryland’s acting state parks Superintendent Angela Crenshaw visits parks, she goes over a few rules with staff members. Be nice. Be safe. Keep body to self.

Maryland Natural Resources Secretary Josh Kurtz explained in a legislative hearing on Sept. 20, 2023 that he has undertaken reforms to change the culture in the state’s troubled park service.

On Sept. 30, people will have a chance to encounter the spectral residents of The Lord Baltimore Hotel as a team of professional spirit seekers arrives for National Ghost Hunting Day.

Detectives investigating the slaying of Rachel Morin near a wooded trail in Bel Air last month uncovered information in Los Angeles that led them to Chicago, Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler said.

Seeing spotted lanternflies in your garden, along the street and scudding thorough the air? Welp, they're about to get worse. But at least they seem to be sparing Maryland's wineries this year.

Family, friends and church members remembered Rachel Morin, the Bel Air woman slain this month, at a service Sunday at Greater Grace Church in East Baltimore.

Family, friends and neighbors took part in a walk to honor Rachel Morin, who disappeared Aug. 5 after going on a walk along the Ma and Pa Heritage Trail in downtown Bel Air. Her body was found the next day.

After weeks of attempts, a Canadian safecracker finally opened the mysterious old safe at Red Emma’s bookstore.

The family of Rachel Morin, the mother of five whose body was found along a trail in Bel Air on Sunday, says the family is planning a celebration of life and a 5K in her honor.

Ten investigators are working “around the clock” on the case of Rachel Morin, the 37-year-old mother of five, whose body was found near a Bel Air nature trail Sunday, Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler said Wednesday.

Rachel Morin was “a fighter” who was looking for “someone to love her in her raw form,” says friend of the slain Harford County woman.

Their stories were in the massive report on sex abuse in Baltimore’s Catholic archdiocese, but a key detail was missing: the name of one of the men who they say raped them.

What lies inside the deep, dark safe on the second floor of Red Emma’s in Waverly? The bookstore’s worker-owners are inviting the public to try cracking the code.