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A GoFundMe campaign, to cover funeral and other expenses for the family — which includes Summer’s younger sister and brother — collected the sum in two days.

“Honestly not that surprised I’ll be carrying out the mass execution of my peers in a couple,” Jackson Elliot Fleming wrote from his home in Chesterton, Indiana, according to federal prosecutors.

A train derailment sent 18 cars off the track Sunday night in East Baltimore, according to the Baltimore City Fire Department. No one was injured.

Next year, for two summer nights, the Indianapolis Clowns and Loco Beach Coconuts will bring Banana Ball to Prince George’s Stadium. Here’s how to get tickets.

Montgomery County police said they have identified the victim of a fatal shooting in Silver Spring over the weekend as Monique Charles, a New York City resident. They allege her ex-boyfriend killed her.

While there was some moderate flooding in Ocean City, the impact of the storm along the Maryland coast was not as strong as initially forecast.

David Earl, a successful boys lacrosse coach in Anne Arundel County who previously founded an independent blues record label, died suddenly in his sleep while visiting Florida in early September. He was 58.

Ocean City and other coastal areas of Maryland’s Eastern Shore faced strong winds and angry seas on Sunday, as a nor’easter sweeps up the coast.

Police responded to a report of a shooting in the 1700 block of Imperial Drive, where a 47-year-old woman was found dead at the scene.

A 20-year-old U.S. Naval Academy midshipman from New Jersey has died, the military service academy in Annapolis said.

A Loyola University student filed a lawsuit against two Baltimore security guards, a security company and a Federal Hill restaurant after he was put into a chokehold in a viral video. 

A powerful nor’easter is churning up the East Coast, bringing 50 mph winds, heavy rain and coastal flooding that could rival Superstorm Sandy’s impact on parts of Maryland’s shoreline.

Daniel A. C. McBride writes that proposals to ban transgender people from owning guns are based in prejudice and violate constitutional rights.

The main role of Baltimore’s liquor board is to approve licenses for businesses, including restaurants, taverns and liquor stores.

Political scientist Hahrie Han has spent decades answering questions about political organizing, collective action and democracy. Her work has earned her one of the country’s most prestigious awards: the MacArthur “Genius” grant.

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While the fate of Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains uncertain, a federal judge inched closer to making a decision on the release of the Maryland man from immigration detention after an hourslong hearing in Greenbelt on Friday.

A ninth grader at Parkville High School has been charged as an adult on Friday after officers found the student in possession of a gun.

Baltimore Ravens fans headed to the game Sunday should prepare for wet weather as a nor’easter is forecast to bring wind and heavy rain.

Joshua Carter, 18, a suspect in a Montgomery County killing in September, has been arrested in North Carolina and charged with first-degree murder, Montgomery County Police said.