The city of Annapolis quietly announced this week that it was parting ways with X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter that some say has become a forum for extremist groups since billionaire investor Elon Musk took the helm last year.
The officers are under investigation by the Office of the Attorney General’s Independent Investigations Division after a high-speed chase and deadly crash in Pasadena early Thursday morning.
After three years of operating a holiday food pantry in the hallway of her Annapolis apartment building, public housing resident Donna Johnson was told she needed to shut it down. Local officials cited code violations and neighbors' complaints.
The Anne Arundel County Library’s board recently rejected a request by employees to form a union, maintaining that it didn’t have authority to accept such a petition until enabling legislation is passed at the state level. AFSCME disagrees.
The school board voted 5-3 on Wednesday night to approve a plan for new school boundaries. It will result in a change of schools for approximately 6,400 students at some point in the educational process.
The Anne Arundel County Board of Education will vote on a redistricting plan for the northern half of the county on Wednesday, wrapping up the first half of a two-part process.
The Annapolis Housing Authority has received a “troubled” grade for fiscal year 2022 on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Public Housing Assessment. The total score required for the standard designation is 70; HACA scored 43.
The Oct. 24 fire in Churchton, in southern Anne Arundel County, sent 74-year-old Patricia Canavan to the hospital with burns. She has since been released.
A Severn man was arrested after he allegedly licked the ear of a young trick-or-treater on Halloween, then followed her home and pulled a gun when he was denied entry into the family’s house, Anne Arundel County police said.
Members of the Anne Arundel County chapter of the NAACP recently forwarded a petition to the national branch calling for the removal of President Rickey Nelson Jones, accusing him of homophobia and sexism. Jones denies the accusations.
Perdue Agribusiness had owned the grain elevator in Lothian, but announced its intention to close it in January 2021. Concerned about the impact, Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman worked with Perdue to delay the closure until a new owner could step in and operate the grain elevator.