Former Ellicott City liquor store employee charged with sexually assaulting...
A Silver Spring man has been charged with third- and fourth-degree sex offenses and solicitation prostitution after Howard police say he assaulted a customer while he was working at JJ Liquors in...
View ArticleMaryland reports smallest number of new coronavirus cases since Nov. 12, but...
Even as some coronavirus metrics begin to decline, the state continues to feel the effects of a powerful winter surge.
View ArticleWhen should boys who go to prison get a second chance? | COMMENTARY
How long should a man convicted of murder at 16 spend in prison before he gets a shot at parole? In the case of Eric Smith, a 42-year-old man who was sentenced to life as a juvenile, a Baltimore judge...
View ArticlePrince George’s police charge District Heights man with murder in the fatal...
Police identified the 17-year-old who was fatally shot in Bowie Saturday as Joshua Salvador, and police arrested the suspected shooter on Monday.
View ArticleMaryland State Police investigating fatal multivehicle collision on...
Maryland State Police are investigating a multivehicle collision in Waterloo that left one person dead and four others injured Tuesday morning.
View ArticleMaryland must do more to get COVID vaccine to African American, LatinX...
The state needs to do a better job at getting the vaccine to these communities now before the equity vaccination gap widens even more.
View ArticlePolitics and passion drive push to open or close schools, but what does the...
We’re woefully short on real information from either camp.
View ArticleHarford County announces four-stage plan for reopening outdoor, indoor...
Harford County announced a four-stage plan to resume indoor and outdoor recreational activities, signaling that some outdoor programs can resume Feb. 1, but indoor programs will have to wait a while...
View ArticleOfficials warn of icy conditions Tuesday, as region braces for possibility of...
Less than an inch of snow fell around the Baltimore region as part of a Monday night snowstorm, according to the National Weather Service, but roads could be icy for the morning commute.
View ArticleMaryland to play Michigan State in women’s basketball Thursday
The women’s basketball matchup between No. 7 Maryland and Michigan State has been moved to Thursday at 4 p.m. at the XFINITY Center. Thursday’s game will be televised on the Big Ten Network.
View ArticleMaryland to open mass coronavirus vaccination sites at M&T Bank Stadium,...
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is immediately reassigning hundreds of members of the Maryland National Guard from providing security in Washington, D.C., to the vaccination campaign.
View ArticleFormer Norfolk Tides manager Ron Johnson dies of COVID-19 complications
Ron Johnson, who managed the Orioles’ Triple-A affiliate in Norfolk for seven seasons, died Tuesday of complications from COVID-19, the Tides announced. He was 64.
View ArticleTexas philanthropists say they’re backing out of financing surveillance plane...
The investors who financed the surveillance plane that monitored Baltimore from the sky for a six-month pilot program have announced they’re backing out of a similar project in St. Louis.
View ArticleAnne Arundel County public school graduate leads Pass in Review during...
Bowie, deputy commanding general for the inauguration with the United States Northern Command Joint Task Force National Capital Region/Military District of Washington, led the pass in review during...
View ArticlePlayground honoring Medal of Honor recipient Alfred B. Hilton, Civil War...
A Civil War-themed playground named for Sgt. Alfred B. Hilton was dedicated Monday in the park bearing his name off of Gravel Hill Road, just west of Havre de Grace. Hilton, a Black soldier in the...
View ArticleHoward County Board of Education again postpones vote on stopping school...
Five months after the original vote on the school resource officer program, the Howard County Board of Education once again couldn’t come to an agreement on the issue during its Jan. 21 meeting and...
View ArticleMaryland Gov. Hogan’s ‘RELIEF Act’ gets first review by state lawmakers
Maryland lawmakers on Tuesday began scrutinizing Gov. Larry Hogan's pandemic relief plan that includes stimulus payments to low-income residents and a series of tax breaks.
View ArticleFormer Baltimore Police detective sentenced to 14 months in prison for lying...
A former Baltimore Police detective is sentenced to 14 months for drug theft.
View ArticleHoward receives $9.7 million federal grant to help residents with rent,...
The funding, which requires Howard County Council authorization to be put in the current 2021 budget, could be in renters’ hands as soon as March, according to Kelly Cimino, director of the county...
View ArticleOdell T. Henry, retired Bethlehem Steel worker active in the Masons and...
Odell Thomas Henry, a retired steelworker who served in the Berlin Airlift of the 1940s and lived in Gwynn Oak died on Jan. 17.
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