Christina Tkacik

Baltimore police are increasing patrols in the Hampden and Remington areas following a spate of robberies over the weekend. 

The board of the Har Sinai synagogue has called off a merger with Oheb Shalom, leaders confirmed Thursday.

Five people were shot — two fatally — in three separate shootings in Baltimore during the city’s fifth Ceasefire weekend. 

Workers at Baltimore Marriott Waterfront hotel plan to rally Thursday to demand a process to form a union.

Two men were killed Thursday in West Baltimore, including one who was found cut to death.

Recent rains have uncovered what appear to be more World War II-era debris at a Baltimore Coast Guard base that was previously designated a Superfund site because of contaminants in the soil. 

So far, every day this month has seen at least a trace of rain. Last month was the wettest July for the city on record.

Police are still searching for a suspect who fled a traffic stop in Bowie late Wednesday afternoon after allegedly assaulting a police officer.

Four men were killed and nine others were injured in a spate of recent violence, Baltimore police said.

A free, two-day festival will help inaugurate the redevelopment of the Poppleton neighborhood by honoring Edgar Allan Poe, who once lived there.

Flash floods hit Eastern Baltimore County on Tuesday evening.

Homicide detectives are investigating after a man was found dead in Northwest Baltimore early Tuesday morning.

A security guard at an Annapolis Safeway suffered a graze wound to the chest after being shot and was taken to an area hospital for treatment.

Tuesday afternoon's storms failed to put a damper on most of the National Night Out events around the Baltimore region that are designed to improve relations between police and their communities.

Maryland Transportation Authority Police are investigating a shooting Monday on Interstate 895 south as a possible road rage incident.

Walmart will expand grocery delivery service to the Baltimore region, including from its Glen Burnie and Cockeysville locations, the retailer announced Monday.

Baltimore County police arrested nine people outside White Marsh Mall after a large fight Saturday night.

Four homes are currently for sale on the 700 block of West 34th Street in Hampden, home to the city’s annual “Miracle on 34th Street” celebration that attracts thousands of visitors each winter to stare in wonder at decorations as wilder and vibrant as any Clark Griswold could imagine.

For the sixth year in a row, fans of the animated series “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” are converging at the Baltimore Convention Center for the annual BronyCon, a celebration of brony culture.

20.7 percent of homes sold in Baltimore, Towson and Columbia during the second quarter of 2018 were distressed, a greater portion than in any of 51 other metropolitan areas surveyed.

Howard County Executive Allan Kittleman reported that floodwaters did not breach the Ellicott City’s channel Wednesday evening, and that Main Street was reopening.

A man was shot and killed in Baltimore County near the Loudon Park Cemetery on Wednesday afternoon.

The American Red Cross has opened a shelter in its Northwest Baltimore offices to accommodate residents affected by recent flooding.

The main entrance to Baltimore’s historic Green Mount cemetery is closed while workers repair the stone wall that surrounds it, according to Tammi Prysiazny, a spokeswoman for the cemetery.

Visitation and funeral arrangements have been announced for Taylor Hayes — the 7-year-old Baltimore girl who was shot while riding in the back seat of a car and who died two weeks later.

The Baltimore region is at significant risk of flash flooding Monday, with grounds saturated and stream levels high after days of heavy rain, the National Weather Service warned.

Sections of Baltimore’s light rail will shut down for at least two weeks following flood damage, officials said Sunday night. 

At the close of a weekend that saw more than a dozen shootings in the city — four of them fatal — residents of Ednor Gardens-Lakeside gathered Sunday evening to remember one of the victims from their neighborhood, and to insist that such violence not be accepted as routine.

A smashed-in 'police car' found in Pigtown was a prop in a music video for local rapper Butch Dawson.

The risk of serious flooding will increase throughout the week in the Baltimore area, as rain continues to fall on water-soaked ground.

SNAP users will have at least another month to buy food from 18 farmers markets in Maryland and many more nationwide thanks to an infusion of cash from a Virginia nonprofit.

A Baltimore man linked to nine fatal drug overdoses has pleaded guilty to a heroin distribution conspiracy, according to federal officials.

The debate over new flight patterns at BWI Marshall Airport continued Wednesday, with Howard County petitioning the Federal Aviation Administration to take immediate action to reduce noise in the area.

Three men were shot in separate incidents Wednesday night in Baltimore, according to police.

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A man was spotting Wednesday morning swimming naked in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.

Andy Harris praised President Donald Trump's appearance in Helsinki as “a successful summit” and said, “I disregard and discount anything that involves the mainstream media press.” 

Homicide detectives are investigating after the body of a 36-year-old man was found in Leakin Park on Sunday.

Two historic sites in Anne Arundel County, the Hammond-Harwood house in Annapolis and the Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse, will each receive state-funded grants of $100,000 to help with preservation efforts.

The survivor of a Maryland school shooting hopes to raise enough money to bring several of her classmates to visit Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, Florida.

Thunderstorms are approaching Baltimore and Washington, D.C., the National Weather Service said Monday.

A Jewish Johns Hopkins University professor said that German police brutally beat him after mistaking him for an anti-Semitic attacker.

The head of the University System of Maryland received nearly $800,000 in compensation for fiscal year 2017. That included a controversial, one-time $75,000 bonus.

According to his plea agreement, Carlo D’Addario, 48, used fake email addresses to correspond with sources in China  to obtain bath salts — drugs that are similar to ecstasy and methamphetamine.

The Johns Hopkins University says a carjacking Tuesday was the third near the Homewood campus since June 30. 

The state’s attorney’s office has decided not to pursue charges against divorced police commanders Kimberly and Torran Burrus, according to a spokeswoman.

The Baltimore County Fire Department was called to a blaze at a Burger King in Owings Mills on Wednesday. It's the second fire reported at an area Burger King in 10 days.

A Gaithersburg man has been arrested on assault charges in connection to an Amber Alert issued Tuesday, according to Montgomery County Police.

In the neighborhood of North Shore, locals wade in to the water to test the cleanliness of the Magothy River.

Five people were shot, three fatally, in Baltimore Tuesday, including the 150th person to be killed in the city this year.