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.

Her uncle fell in love with a Baltimore woman and cleared the path for Elizabeth’s reign.

Artist who turned the city’s salt boxes into an art form has found a new place to display her work — abandoned pay phones.

It turns out there are old privies just about everywhere in the city — and each is a portal to the past.

Four years after spotted lanternflies, an invasive insect originally from China, first arrived in Maryland, their population is soaring — and they have stormed into the Baltimore area.

Artist Ashley Kidner hopes to breathe new life into the casket of Mathilda Lorenz with an art project. The British-born artist lives in Wyman Park, just a few blocks from the streambed where the coffin — which bears a nameplate with the date of 1882— was found. Kidner takes us into his studio and shares his plans.

Sam Cogen, a former longtime Baltimore sheriff’s deputy, claimed victory Friday evening in the Democratic primary to be the city’s next sheriff. Cogen was well ahead of his former boss, 33-year-incument John W. Anderson, with most mail-in ballots counted. No Republican entered the race, so the Democratic primary winner will likely become the next sheriff.