Community issues

President Donald Trump pardoned more than 1,500 people in connection with the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Dozens of those people are from Maryland.

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A fire that started at a Dundalk recycling center last Saturday and rekindled this week is nearly extinguished, officials said.

The Harford County State’s Attorney’s Office recently dropped the cases against Regina Jones, the former principal of Aberdeen Middle School, and Tanya Johnson, a paraeducator, after determining that “the facts do not support conviction.”

The rhetoric surrounding immigration and deportations is certain to set large parts of Maryland on edge.

Keyona Dillon, 34, was arrested around noon on Thursday when officers responded to a home in the 2100 block of Firethorn Road, according to the Baltimore County Police Department.

It was not immediately clear whether the suspects are fellow students.

The 52-year-old woman who was killed in a triple shooting Wednesday night in North Baltimore was identified by police as Antionette Jennings.

Maryland’s roads claimed 572 lives last year, preliminary state data shows. That number is 49 fewer than in 2023 but likely to rise.

The site would include large and small single-family homes but also duplexes at prices that are “financially accessible” to aspiring homeowners, project managers said.

Weems Creek, poor little Weems, outscored all the rest on the Severn River Association’s survey of the worst tributaries. That presented an opportunity for a group hoping to make a difference on the Chesapeake Bay.

The owner of PHA Healthcare said he has ended its treatment services, but clients are still living in the addiction treatment provider’s housing.

A state board suspended the permit for Heaven Bound Cremation Services LLC after finding the crematory was not cremating bodies properly, but stockpiling them.

A 74-year-old woman died Wednesday in a Dundalk house fire, the Baltimore County Fire Department said in a news release.

The free legal services and advocacy group will dissolve by the end of the quarter.

Members of the family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself, agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion in a new settlement.

Authorities are investigating the cause of an explosion and fire at a cannabis processing facility in Queen Anne’s County.

Howard County planners and consultants presented their preferred plan for redeveloping Columbia Gateway, the business park that Amazon passed over for its East Coast headquarters in 2018.

Three men face trial in Wicomico District Court for misdemeanors.

Baltimore Police and Police Commissioner Richard Worley arrived at the scene of a triple shooting that unfolded in northern Baltimore Wednesday night.