Maryland saw a higher per capita rate of unaccompanied minor children than any other state in the nation between 2015 and 2023. Many of those children are winding up with people other than their parents.
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Catholic Charities unveiled plans Thursday for a resource center at a shuttered school in the Franklintown Road neighborhood.
For the last decade, children have been traveling to the U.S. southwest border in record numbers, with more than 33,000 unaccompanied children arriving in Maryland since October 2014.
Youth development programs are among the resources needed to address the social and economic causes of juvenile crime, says Lillian Bocquin, a fellow with the Center for Adolescent Health at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Maxine has been missing for 10 days since two girls were seen on video holding the cat.
Baltimore courthouses are one of the places that need to ensure that breastfeeding mothers have the opportunity and the right kind of environment to feed their babies, says former Baltimore City Councilwoman Shannon Sneed, a current candidate for council president.
Bicycle Advocates for Annapolis and Anne Arundel County, or Bike AAA, has launched a bike safety program for youngsters.
Peter Angelos helped Baltimoreans and Marylanders countless times and in countless ways that he didn't want anybody to know about, Tom Minkin, his friend and longest-serving legal associate, says.
Tax debt and other property-related bills can block home title transfers that would be beneficial to low-income Marylanders, says an attorney who works to resolve these “tangled titles.”
For three generations, the Yau/Lam family has brought good fortune to Baltimore and the surrounding areas through lion dancing. At U.S. Jow Ga Martial Arts in Columbia, they have found more family.
New mothers face a lot of challenges, and in Baltimore one of them is serving jury duty.
MacKenzie Scott’s latest round giving went to several Baltimore organizations, including Marian House and Wide Angle Youth Media.
Seeing Tony! Toni! Toné! and then Goapele live in concert in Baltimore, just months apart, means a lifelong soul music lover is now hooked on what has become known as “neo-soul.”
Identified only by their initials, 11 women, one man, and one person who identified as non-binary, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the state of Maryland and three of its agencies, claiming they were sexually abused as children while residents at the Good Shepherd Services treatment center before the facility was closed in 2017.
Maryland must make free meals available to all its public school students to promote good health, academic achievement and educational equity, two faculty members at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health say.