Citing state and federal rules that protect grand jury materials, a Baltimore judge ordered proceedings to remain secret in the legal effort to release an investigation into the history sexual abuse within the Catholic Church of Baltimore.

State employees are eligible to collect pensions even if they have been indicted for or convicted of a crime, according to a state pension system official. Fired workers also qualify.

The survivors and advocates include two women who say they were violently raped by a priest while students at Archbishop Keough High School. The women decried the fact that church leaders have been able to read the report while they — victims whose testimony helped investigators — have been barred from seeing it.

It’s been a little over five years since “The Keepers” miniseries debuted on Netflix, shocking viewers with allegations of extreme sexual abuse in the late ’60s and early ’70s at Archbishop Keough, a Catholic all-girls school in Baltimore County. The women who shared their stories in “The Keepers” talk about their hopes for the upcoming Maryland Attorney General’s report into sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

Lawyers for the women featured in the 2017 documentary series file motion to support the disclosure of the 456-page state investigation.

Former parks employees say that Nita Settina failed to take action when alerted to deeply-entrenched problems at Gunpowder Falls State Park, where the former manager has been indicted on charges related to the alleged rapes of two employees.

Current and former park employees say Maryland State Park Superintendent Nita Settina and other officials knew about problems at Gunpowder Falls State Park, but failed to take substantive action.

The agency confirms that Dean Hughes’ former boss, park manager Michael Browning, who is in jail awaiting trial on rape charges, is on leave without pay.

All but one of Maryland’s congressional incumbents cruised to victory Tuesday, with Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen fending off a challenge from Republican Chris Chaffee and Congressman Andy Harris— the lone Republican in the state’s congressional delegation— besting Democrat Heather Mizeur.

Democratic lawmakers requested the independent investigation after The Baltimore Banner last week published an investigation revealing years of complaints about misconduct, favoritism and retaliation by leaders at the state’s largest park.

Officials said this week that Dean Hughes had been placed on leave from his position as the park’s assistant manager “until further notice.”

Citing their ‘horror’ over what they called the ‘systemic abuse of employees’ at Maryland’s largest state park, two legislators are questioning a state agency’s handling of repeated complaints there.

A Baltimore County grand jury has indicted Michael J. Browning, the longtime manager of Gunpowder Falls State Park, with raping and sexually assaulting two women, both former park employees.

For three decades, Michael J. Browning wielded so much power at Gunpowder Falls State Park that it was called "The Kingdom." Now, as Browning faces charges that he raped a former employee at the park, more than a dozen former employees are describing a reign marked by bullying, intimidation, harassment and favoritism.

About 60 residents of Catonsville’s Charlestown Senior Living community spent yesterday morning listening to a discussion about LGBTQ+ issues.

Jocelyn Broadwick has been entertaining crowds during Highlandtown's First Friday Art Walks by reading aloud steamy pulp novels from the 1950s and ’60s — and now the reading series is reaching an even bigger platform.

Michael Browning met the woman when she was a teenager participating in a 4-H Club program led by his wife at their Baldwin home, according to charging documents.

Each September, Baltimore Bird Club members watch as chimney swifts pour into the chimney at the former Hampden bookbindery on their annual journey from Canada to South America. However, the birds will soon likely no longer have a chimney in which to roost.

Anne Habberton and Jon Shaw turned about 30 acres of farmland into a meadow of native wildflowers and have deepened their bond with the land.

A 5-year-old's heartbreak at losing her stuffed bunny on a family trip prompts strangers to spring into action.