Eric Holder, the former U.S. Attorney General and renowned civil rights leader, delivered an inaugural speech in a lecture series created to honor the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
Johns Hopkins University shared socioeconomic statistics and self-reported racial and ethnic identities of this year’s incoming first-year undergraduates.
Baltimore City Board of Elections Director Armstead Jones says about 2,100 election judges are needed to work the polls during the general election on Nov. 5.
A Reisterstown man suspected of stealing cash and luxury sunglasses from a coach and staff with the University of Maryland’s football team was charged with theft and burglary.
A fast-approaching deadline has the ACLU of Maryland calling for more protections as state police outline how local enforcement agencies will be able to use facial recognition technology.
Baltimore’s Safe Streets gun violence reduction program celebrated a milestone Friday, as three more sites marked over 365 consecutive days without a homicide.
Baltimore hotel workers went on strike at the the city-owned downtown Hilton hotel on Labor Day, demanding better pay and better working conditions. It was the city's first strike in more than 50 years.
Andrea Rodriguez Avila was found dead in her residential hall on the campus of Rice University in Houston. The family of the 21-year-old issued a statement, saying her "precious life was lost to horrific violence."
After voting to authorize a strike earlier this month, union hotel workers and Hilton had their final negotiations before their contract's expiration on Aug. 29.
Detectives with the Baltimore County Homicide Unit arrested Bryan Demetric Cherry, 36, on Thursday. He faces a count of first-degree murder charges and is being held without bond. An attorney was not immediately listed in online court records.
The Department of Public Works is scheduled to discuss working conditions at a City Council oversight hearing Thursday night following the death of a solid waste worker.
“One thing about Leslie, he was not a downer. He was one that was really excited,” Elder Gregory Johnson said. “And so, while we are here in his remembrance, we know he has left such a great legacy in his life of just 16 years.”
Marylanders are safe for now as the World Health Organization declared Wednesday that the increasing spread of mpox in Africa is a global health emergency, warning the virus could cross borders.
“The people of Baltimore know all too well the impact caused when vital transportation infrastructure is lost,” Lt. Gen. Scott A. Spellmon, the commanding general of the U.S. Army of Corp Engineers, said.