Community issues

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.

Updates to Howard County building codes mean residents will have lower bills, better energy efficiency and more comfort during hot weather, says Monica O’Connor, a member of HoCo Climate Action.

In the early 1980s, Donna De Garcia drove through the mountainside of Taxco, Mexico, searching for her vision of gold — silver.

Flooded basements, trash, pests — residents of Midtown-Edmondson say that construction for Amtrak’s Frederick Douglass Tunnel is bringing unwanted additions to the neighborhood.

Standing up to injustice requires courage, and every step toward despotism by President Donald Trump is another call to show it.

Uber driver Tanner Donahoo didn’t know he was driving famous rapper Jeezy until halfway through their 10-hour ride to save his Baltimore concert at the Lyric.

Williamsport High School in Washington County will start the 2025-26 academic year virtually after asbestos was found in parts of its building.

A Harford County judge on Monday sentenced the man who raped and murdered Rachel Morin on the Ma & Pa Heritage Trail in Bel Air to life in prison without the possibility of parole.