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William H. Keeler, the retired archbishop of Baltimore's Catholic Church, died Thursday at age 86.

Forecasters on Saturday declared a winter storm watch for Maryland's central corridor that will be in effect from Monday night to Tuesday evening.

The father of a 4-year-old boy accidentally shot by his 6-year-old brother in their Northeast Baltimore home Friday evening has been charged with failing to properly store a loaded handgun, Baltimore police said.

A woman was killed Saturday when her car was struck by another vehicle in an accident in Pikesville, Baltimore County police said.

Maryland Congressman Elijah E. Cummings and two U.S. senators Wednesday called for the White House to clarify which financial assets Jared Kushner, son-in-law and senior adviser to President Trump, has divested to avoid potential conflicts of interest with his role in the administration.

Defense attorneys, prosecutors and Baltimore police leaders knew the seven officers indicted on federal corruption charges faced questions in the past about their tactics.

An elite squad of Baltimore gun-crimes detectives had a busy year in 2016. Online court records show that the seven police officers were involved in hundreds of criminal cases.

Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and top adviser to President Donald J. Trump, will refrain from any policy making related to federal rental assistance for low-income tenants because his real estate firm's Baltimore-area properties receive income from the U.S. housing department's voucher program, a White House official told The Baltimore Sun.

Maryland General Assembly members have an active social calendar during the 2017 session in Annapolis

President Donald J. Trump suggests sending federal support to fight crime in Chicago

Penn Station in Baltimore felt like Penn Station in New York Saturday morning as thousands of people on their way to the Women's March in Washington waited in lines that snaked from the tracks to the streets.

Thousands of Marylanders and others mobbed Penn Station in Baltimore en route to the Women's March in Washington, overwhelming the regular train service.

It's political party time in Annapolis as the Maryland General Assembly cranks up its 2017 legislative session.

Baltimore police cut their use of Tasers nearly in half in 2016, a year when commanders put new limits on when officers can fire the stun guns, officials said.

Government ethics officials see no conflict in the rent David E. Ralph, the interim city solicitor, has paid to Lisa Harris Jones' law firm for a decade to use its phone number and Maryland Avenue address for his private legal practice.

The small girl waving the large butcher's knife was terrifying her mother. But Radiance Pittman's terror quickly turned to panic when her bipolar, 14-year-old daughter stopped threatening to cut herself and started threatening the police officers who had cornered her in the kitchen of her Baltimore home.

From cow palaces to cathedrals, Christians across the Baltimore region and Maryland gathered this weekend to celebrate the birth of Jesus with sermons about neighborly love after a year of partisan hatred fueled by a divisive national election.

Voters inundated polling places around Baltimore as Election Day began at 7 a.m. Tuesday, and some of them found delays and long lines to cast ballots.

Baltimore Mayor Rawlings-Blake to appear on Food Network's Chopped.

A large residential property management company has settled a class-action lawsuit with 1,442 Baltimore tenants who accused the firm of charging improper fees and then threatening them with eviction to force payment, the parties announced Friday.

It seems like a fairly straight-forward question: what is rent? But judges across Maryland who preside over eviction requests are struggling with the answer.

The Laura and John Arnold Foundation, which spent $360,000 on Baltimore Police Department's aerial surveillance program, also backed a system to help judges decide bail.

Laura Arnold of Laura and John Arnold Foundation says privacy debate about Baltimore Police Department's aerial surveillance is healthy

Murky donation process behind aerial surveillance by Baltimore police fueled anger over the secrecy surrounding the initiative. The fallout not only led to more national scrutiny of a beleaguered police department, it threatens to sully the reputation of the Baltimore Community Foundation, whose $25 million in direct investments in a range of charitable causes has now been overshadowed by a single $360,000 gift.

From low-tech eyeglasses to high-tech spyglasses, the wealthy Texas philanthropists bankrolling secret aerial surveillance of Baltimore are no strangers to public policy initiatives in Maryland that match their charitable vision.

City Council members plan to call in Baltimore police to answer questions about why officers never disclosed they were using a private company to fly surveillance missions collecting and storing footage of wide swaths of the city.

The Baltimore Police Department was able to keep secret the funding of a surveillance plane that monitored wide swaths of the city by routing project funds through a private foundation — whose director says he was not aware of the purpose of the spending. A Texas-based private donor supplied $120,000 earmarked for the city surveillance project but delivered to the nonprofit Baltimore Community Foundation, which manages at least two charitable funds for police.

A man was shot and killed in Randallstown Friday night, Baltimore County police said.

A candlelight vigil is planned for Korryn Gaines, the Randallstown woman shot by Baltimore County police during an hours-long standoff on Monday.

The 5-year-old boy who was wounded during the Randallstown shootout with his mother on Monday was accidentally shot by a Baltimore County police officer, police said.

Baltimore police arrested a 26-year-old man Friday on charges related to the vicious attack of a 31-year-old woman walking to her Upper Fells Point home last month.

An independent review of Taser incidents in Montgomery County determined that police there are not overusing the electronic weapon — a finding that drew criticism from civil liberties activists and relatives of a Gaithersburg man who died in 2013 after being shot by Tasers far above safety limits.

The Baltimore police officers in the Gray case will soon find out whether they can go back. After other high-profile police prosecutions exonerated officers, some have returned to duty with an unbowed sense of duty. Others have confronted more obstacles: ongoing protests, threats, stress-related health problems, political pressure to resign.

About 20 people marched from Baltimore City Hall to the Inner Harbor and Harbor East late Friday afternoon to raise awareness of the social ills afflicting poor

Law enforcement agencies throughout Maryland issued thoughts and prayers for the officers killed and injured, and their families, Thursday night in Dallas.

The sinkhole that emerged on West Mulberry Street on Monday caused a spill of approximately 48,000 gallons of wastewater, officials said Friday

A fire that started Saturday amid a pile of construction debris behind Lakeview Towers forced nearly 70 people to evacuate the troubled public housing building in West Baltimore.

A man was shot in the leg early Saturday night in northern Baltimore, police said.

Elders of Baltimore, started by two Dundalk artists, uses Instagram to collect stories and images of Baltimore's elderly residents

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake was outside of City Hall Friday afternoon taking direction from a film crew from the Food Network.

The criminal cases against Baltimore police in Freddie Gray's death have drawn widespread attention to so-called "rough rides," making what had been a little-known practice part of the American lexicon. But proving a rough ride in court is difficult, according to policing and legal experts.

As a starting NBA point guard, Chris Herren traveled coast to coast, playing the sport he had loved since childhood. But Herren wasn't just shooting hoops as he crisscrossed the country for various professional basketball teams. He was shooting heroin and popping pills.

Criticism of Baltimore's election process mounted Friday as state officials closed in on an explanation for why the number voters who checked in at the polls in last month's primary was less than number of ballots counted.

Baltimore election officials now say that despite the snags, high voter turnout and new voting devices, the election went smoothly. But the last-minute snafus — including temporarily missing ballots and precinct confusion among some judges — have raised questions about the city's election preparedness.

James I. Cabezas, chief investigator for the Maryland State Prosecutor, honored for four decades of exposing corruption.

The race for Baltimore mayor may not yet be over for the two leading Democrats in last week's primary election: Sheila Dixon told The Sun she is exploring legal options to possibly challenge the results that gave state Sen. Catherine E. Pugh a narrow victory.

Baltimore County high school senior vying for national poetry prize from NEA, Poetry Foundation

The Baltimore City Council began to undergo a monumental shift Tuesday as a number of younger, novice politicians were poised to win Democratic nominations that historically secure victories in November's general election.

State lawmakers are allowed to raise campaign funds during the session only if they are running for local or federal offices. The fundraising ban was established in 1997 to curb the appearance of corruption, stopping lawmakers from soliciting campaign contributions while voting on legislation that could affect donors.

Baltimore mayoral candidate Elizabeth Embry compares Sen. Catherine E. Pugh's fundraising actions to Sheila Dixon's criminal actions.