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With guns drawn, Baltimore County Police surrounded a group of students after the Omnilert AI Gun Detection System warned school leaders that a student had a gun. 

David Kennedy, the government affairs manager at BoatU.S., writes that keeping the Discovery Village boat ramp in Anne Arundel County open would provide affordable access to the Chesapeake Bay for boaters, anglers and families.

Jim Frazetti of Anne Arundel County is the 26th person to be named a Maryland Master Angler by catching 10 out of a list of 60 qualifying fish species found in the state.

A South Dakota company is recalling more than 2.2 million pounds of Korean barbecue pork jerky sold at Costco and Sam’s Club stores because the product may be contaminated with pieces of metal, federal health officials said Friday.

The Port to Fort race, which was supposed to run through Fort McHenry, had to change its route at the last minute because the government shutdown has closed the national monument.

Patrick Kent, a former Baltimorean now living in Washington, D.C., says it’s time for the Ravens to fire coach John Harbaugh.

Multiple people were shot during what was supposed to be a celebration near the campus of Howard University in D.C., on Friday evening.

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This is the sixth year that the Downtown Partnership has worked with other groups to bring gigantic pumpkins to downtown Annapolis, where they are carved by local artists.

Harford County officers were called to respond to an alligator found in the parking lot of an exotic pet store in Bel Air Thursday night. The female alligator was housed overnight at Ryan’s Reptile Rescue and Rehoming.

A mother has raised more than $29,000 for her son's medical bills after the middle schooler was hit in the head by a metal object at Odessa Shannon Middle School in Silver Spring last week.

The federal government told a Maryland judge on Friday that it plans to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia, saying in a court filing it could do so as early as Oct. 31.

The Trump administration rejected the final appeal for federal disaster relief for Western Maryland communities that are still recovering from May’s historic flash floods.

A Silver Spring man, Deondray Darnell Osbonre, was arrested Tuesday in connection with an alleged attempted murder in July, Montgomery County Police said on Thursday.

The president and CEO of the National Aquarium in Baltimore, John Racanelli, is retiring “by the end of the year,” aquarium officials said Thursday.

While the smoldering manure may look and smell bad, Jacksonville Volunteer Fire Company assured residents in a Facebook post that unless there are visible flames, the smoke poses no danger to the community.

The rapid rise of data centers is hitting the region’s power grid. Maryland lawmakers are concerned that utility ratepayers will pay the $100 billion price for them.

Police have determined that a septic truck initially blamed for the collapse of a historic Baltimore County bridge was not at fault, as an investigation into the incident continues.

Maryland’s state government has $3.5 billion in “fully liquid cash” available for emergency needs, but the governor has not indicated whether he would use the money for SNAP.

Ryan’s Place Health Services is a primary care center designed for people with developmental disabilities. The center hosted a grand opening on Wednesday.