Community issues

The case centers on a standing order issued in May by Chief Judge George L. Russell III, in which he ordered a 48-hour pause in every case in which an immigrant had tried to block deportation by challenging the legality of their detention.

Residents of the Hillsmere Shores community in Annapolis discovered a man’s body in Duvall Creek near a kayak launch Sunday, prompting a police investigation.

Bob Seurkamp, the "first first man" of Notre Dame University of Maryland and a former executive director of the Maryland Governor’s Workforce Investment Board, died in July of heart failure.

The BMORE Bus plan, released in June, calls for increasing the frequency of bus service on all MTA routes and adding new, limited-stop express routes, among other improvements.

A Baltimore grandmother said she’s devastated after a 38-year-old man was killed in a mass shooting in the Park Heights neighborhood on Saturday.

The pools in Baltimore County are inviting for families, but not everyone can afford such luxury.

Maternal mental health has declined significantly across the nation in the last decade. That trend holds true in Baltimore, experts say

Here are seven things to do in Baltimore County for the week ending Aug. 20, 2025.

Maryland and other blue states have been met with funding denials, program cuts and other means that hurt their constituents under the Trump administration.

A toddler was airlifted to the hospital and faces life-threatening injuries after falling from a sixth-story balcony of a College Park apartment, officials said.

The U.S. Naval Academy will have its change of command ceremony for the new superintendent on Friday.

Tropical Storm Erin formed Monday in the eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean and could become the first hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic season later this week, forecasters say.

Howard County is launching a guaranteed basic income pilot program to study how transformative $1,000 monthly cash payments would be for 20 needy families.

A Columbia man, Charles Epperson Jr., pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the fatal January shooting of Lance Carrington in Howard County, prosecutors said.

Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat, said he and a bipartisan team of senators worked with Trump administration officials to secure the release of citizens wrongfully detained.

Baltimore Farmers’ Market patrons paid tribute Sunday to a longtime pit beef vendor who was found shot dead in his burning Pennsylvania home a week ago.

The Maryland State Fair is returning to Baltimore County for the 144th time this summer.

The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office on Tuesday made the announcement at what was scheduled to be his arraignment.

The state transportation department has so far budgeted $1.5 million to advance planning for the site.

Mark Fetting, who passionately supported his three children, adored Stephen Sondheim’s music, died Saturday morning after a heart attack. He was 70-years-old.