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    The Baltimore County Fire Department battled a brush fire in the 13900 block of York Road on Wednesday, March 26, 2025.
    Baltimore County battled 6-acre brushfire amid heavy winds, dry conditions
    Parts of Maryland, including Baltimore, will be under a fire weather watch Wednesday due to dry conditions and heavy winds, officials said.
    6/16/22—A Baltimore County police car sits outside of the Public Safety Building and Police Department in Towson.
    Mom finds son and girlfriend dead in their apartment. Now an 18-year-old is charged with murder.
    An 18-year-old faces first-degree murder charges after a man and his girlfriend were found dead in Woodlawn earlier this year, Baltimore County Police announced on Tuesday.
    Toads don’t wait to reach their vernal pool spawning grounds to get busy. Lisa Lewenz often picks them up while they are mid-mate.
    7 things to do in Baltimore County, from gardening workshops to community cleanups
    Here are seven things to do in Baltimore County for the week ending April 3 that will connect you to spring.
    Jim Harkness, Maryland Transportation Authority Chief Engineer, sits with a study model of the new bridge to replace the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge.
    Can Maryland rebuild the Key Bridge by 2028? The engineer in charge is already on it
    Maryland Transportation Authority chief engineer James Harkness oversees a Key Bridge team that, in an given week, includes roughly 150 engineers.
    Prettyboy Dam impounds the Gunpowder Falls to create the 1500-acre Prettyboy Reservoir in northern Baltimore County.
    Is breaching Baltimore County’s urban-rural divide ‘the dumbest growth possible?’
    As the Baltimore County Council considers a measure that would make it harder to change its Urban Rural Demarcation Line, here are answers to five questions about the decades-old URDL.
    Baltimore County school board member Maggie Domanowski was censured earlier this month for conduct the resolution called “rude and disrespectful.”
    Baltimore County school board didn’t discuss member’s censure. But the public did.
    The rare move to publicly reprimand Maggie Domanowski was hotly debated, despite a vote not to discuss it.
    A cross over the entrance to St. Agnes School in Baltimore.
    Ex-Catholic priest accused of child sex abuse eligible for home detention, judge rules
    Baltimore County District Judge Krystin Richardson on Tuesday made the ruling at a bail review hearing for William “Bill” Mannion Jr., 62, of Sparrows Point.
    “In Bloom” is one of the comics Atomic Books in Hampden gets exclusively through Diamond Comic Distributors. Photographed on Friday, January 17, 2025.
    Alliance wins bid to acquire Maryland-based Diamond Comic Distributors
    Alliance Entertainment Holding Corporation won the bid to acquire the assets of Hunt Valley-based Diamond Comic Distributors.
    NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 21: Luigi Manigione is led by court officers to a hearing at Manhattan Criminal Court on February 21, 2025 in New York City.
    Luigi Mangione wants laptop in jail while he awaits trial in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO
    Luigi Mangione is asking for a laptop in jail, but just for legal purposes — not for communicating with anyone — as he awaits trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO.
    The owner of the popular Baltimore restaurant Costas Inn died from apparent carbon monoxide poisoning on Monday
    Owner of Costas Inn dies from apparent carbon monoxide poisoning, son says
    The owner of the popular Baltimore restaurant Costas Inn died from apparent carbon monoxide poisoning on Monday, his son confirmed to WJZ.
    Pam Moffett’s commute from Dundalk to College Park became so long and unbearable that she now rents a room at a coworker’s house.
    Loss of the Key Bridge upends commutes and personal finances
    Even though Maryland avoided large-scale economic doom related to the Key Bridge collapse, the disaster upended the lives of people who relied on the bridge.
    Frank Cicero.
    The legacy of love, concert posters and Italian cooking left by Frank Cicero
    Frank Cicero, who designed hundreds of eye-catching posters advertising concerts, carnivals, political campaigns and other events during his time at Globe, died March 7 of heart disease.
    Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed after it was struck by a large container ship early on March 26, 2024, sending several vehicles and people into the frigid water below.
    One year later: How Baltimore averted economic doom after the Key Bridge collapse
    The Key Bridge collapse temporarily closed a shipping channel. One year later, it's clear leaders' forecast of economic doom largely didn’t come to pass.
    Ex-priest who helped report notorious abuser now charged with sex abuse from 1990s
    A former Catholic priest who played a key role in bringing down the notorious child rapist John Joseph Merzbacher has been charged with sex offenses.
    The Chesapeake Bay Bridge is more at risk for ship strike than it should be, according to Johns Hopkins research. It can expect to be struck once in every 86 years, according to their findings.
    Ships are ‘highly likely’ to collide with U.S. bridges, Hopkins research finds
    From one spanning the San Francisco Bay to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge here in Maryland, structures are much more prone to ship strikes than previously thought.
    Deputy Maryland state prosecutor Sarah David, right, laughs as Maryland State Bar Association president Raphael J. Santini speaks during a panel discussion for the Maryland State Bar Association’s Leadership Academy.
    Sarah David wants to change the Baltimore County State’s Attorney’s Office
    Currently the deputy Maryland state prosecutor, Sarah David will announce her candidacy for state’s attorney Wednesday.
    Homemade cornbread and honey jalapeño butter from The Local.
    Miss free bread? These restaurants still serve complimentary carbs.
    At a time when free bread is becoming a rarity, these Baltimore-area restaurants are keeping the tradition alive, according to social media food influencer Chris Franzoni.
    Owner Lilly Ordoñez in the newly renovated Owls Corner Cafe.
    Her restaurant closed after the Key Bridge disaster. She’s ready to reopen — in a new spot.
    Lilly Ordoñez is hoping for a fresh start as she relocates her Owls Corner Cafe restaurant from near the Key Bridge in Dundalk to Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood.
    Myra Harris.
    Myra Harris, one of Towson University’s first Black graduates, was passionate about education
    Myra Harris, the namesake of a Towson residence hall who had an illustrious career in Baltimore schools, died Feb. 1 after a brief illness. She was 87.
    A tractor-trailer carrying 6,000 gallons of milk took a tumble on Interstate 695 near Exit 24, turning the highway into a dairy disaster zone on March 22, 2025.
    6,000 gallons of spilled milk stink up I-695: Dairy disaster sparks warning of lingering sour smell
    Early Saturday morning, a tractor trailer carrying 6,000 gallons of milk took a tumble on Interstate 695 near Exit 24, turning the highway into a dairy disaster zone.
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