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Anne Arundel County will issue a public apology for its role in instituting and supporting slavery. For the county executive, the direct descendant of people who enslaved others, it’s personal.

The author of the illustrated novel “Flamer” spoke to a crowd in Harford County on Tuesday after his book was banned by the county’s Board of Education earlier this year.

The only habitable island in the Severn River has a colorful and even illicit history.

TurnAround has named its Dundalk center after Jacobi Sa’fiir Marcelle — a 4-year-old Rosedale boy shot to death, allegedly by his father, in a domestic violence incident on Christmas Eve last year.

Check out our list of fall-oriented events in Baltimore County for the week ending Oct. 15.

By the end of next year, Montgomery County’s call center hopes to use artificial intelligence to answer nonemergency phone calls. The goal is to lighten the workload for a chronically understaffed center.

An illustrated, curated itinerary for any Janeite romantic looking to make the most of their time in Baltimore.

A staffing shortfall is making it harder for Montgomery County Police’s gang units to do their jobs, police said.

Owners of hookah and vapor lounges in Baltimore County are going to have to beef up security under a new county law.

Environmental groups say this has been the longest and most widespread pistachio tide in recent memory.

The city of Baltimore accuses MoneyLion of using misleading marketing and charging excessive fees that officials allege trap low-income residents in cycles of debt.

Rite Aid has officially closed all 16 of its Maryland stores, with customers’ prescriptions transferred to other pharmacies.

The next few months will provide ample opportunities for skywatching and stargazing, featuring supermoons and meteor showers over Maryland.

Seven students were taken to a hospital with minor injuries after a crash involving a school bus Monday morning in Woodlawn, the Baltimore County Fire Department said.

The incident occurred at about 8:30 a.m. Sunday, forcing the closure of some lanes on Montrose Road near St. Elizabeth Catholic Church.

Police said the stabbing remains under investigation, but no additional people are being sought.

Baltimore County Councilman Pat Young introduced legislation that would allow a Catonsville developer to temporarily store construction equipment in an area zoned for office-residential.

In September 2020, Caty Anderson typed out a short email to her state representative, lamenting that a woman was hit by a car near her family’s Kensington home.

Animal shelters across Maryland are struggling with record overcrowding — thanks in large part to an increasingly high cost of living.

The Hilton Recreation Center is on to its next chapter.