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A powerful nor’easter will whip up weather along the East Coast and could bring wind and heavy rain to Maryland this weekend.

Here are seven things to do in Howard County from Oct. 9-15, from a banned books story time to a firefighter obstacle course.

Columbia’s cluster mailboxes are among the oldest in the country and the subject of a yearslong dispute between federal and local authorities over maintenance responsibilities.

A stabbing at a Pikesville home Tuesday morning turned into a barricade situation, leaving two adults hospitalized and drawing a heavy police presence to the normally quiet suburb.

Baltimore County Police charged a 33-year-old man with attempted murder after an “extremely brutal” attack that lasted three minutes and left a woman critically injured with more than a dozen stab wounds.

Eleven people overdosed in Baltimore’s Penn North neighborhood on Wednesday, just over two months after a “bad batch” of drugs hospitalized more than two dozen people.

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.

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

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.

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

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.