Community issues

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball unveiled a $2.3 billion operating budget proposal for the fiscal year beginning in July, recommending $100 million be trimmed from the county’s books.

Eric Epstein, 64, was accused of pilfering more than $18,000 from the beachfront neighborhood of Oyster Harbor in Annapolis. His case has divided residents of the neighborhood.

A judge rejected a plea agreement for Amazon driver Jerome Young Jr. that called for him to serve no jail time in the hit-and-run, which happened near the intersection of East Pratt and South Chester streets in Butchers Hill.

Perdue and Maryland state officials found "forever chemicals" in the wastewater at the Wicomico County facility more than a year before telling the plant's neighbors, emails show.

For the second Earth Day in a row, rides on any Mass Transit Administration bus, commuter bus, Mobility paratransit, light rail, Metro SubwayLink or MARC train will be free.

The Baltimore Police Department is now facing delays in getting trainees out on the streets due to its reliance on a state-owned firing range.

Maryland Transportation Authority officials said they have completed a new risk analysis of the Bay Bridge one month after the National Transportation Safety Board admonished the authority for failing to assess its most essential bridges for the threat of vessel collisions.

Maryland Catholics, whether they had disagreements with the Catholic Church or not, remember Pope Francis as a humble priest who lifted up the needs and suffering of common people above all else.

Pope Francis, who suffered from chronic lung disease and was admitted to a hospital in February for a respiratory crisis, has died.

Before his death, Mendel Steiner was fighting off a receivership petition at two Baltimore apartment complexes.

Scott Krugman, senior associate dean for LifeBridge Health/George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, says it is important to find a sustainable solution for ensuring access to care for sick children.

Mooney, 31, of Madison Park, is an assistant state’s attorney in the Misdemeanor Jury Trial Unit.

Baltimore is markedly different than it was then years ago — and, in some ways, exactly the same.

Attorneys for sexual abuse survivors ask a judge to rule on the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s claim that its insurers should cover the cost of payments to any of the sex abuse claims filed in its bankruptcy case.

Some residents of Northern Baltimore County and Carroll County spent Sunday cleaning up around their homes after a quick, intense storm overnight rocked their neighborhoods.

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Trump administration must facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return.

Xinis, an Obama administration appointee, is in the national spotlight after her ruling turned into a standoff with President Donald Trump.

Gertrude “Trudy” Hodges, the first Black graduate of Johns Hopkins Hospital Training School for Nurses, died March 28 of stroke complications. She was 88.

Since the children's book “Drew’s Grand Adventure” was published in December, it has amassed more than $2,000 in sales, which will go toward upkeep of the historic Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse.

As Saturday marked the 10th anniversary of Freddie Gray’s death, a pivotal moment that ignited national outrage and calls for police reform, dozens of people gathered in Baltimore to honor his life.