Jessica Anderson

An Arbutus block was evacuated Wednesday morning after a high pressure gas leak was reported in the area, Baltimore County officials said.

A man wanted for the murder of his five-month-old son turned himself into Baltimore Police, a department spokesman said Tuesday.

Five people were killed and at least two others wounded in four separate incidents in Baltimore late Monday night and early Tuesday morning, prompting Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis to schedule an afternoon news conference to announce his department's response.

Mike Moeller, 38, and ten others plaintiffs sued the Town of Ocean City in federal court, alleging their first amendment rights have been violated by rules adopted by the seven-member city council last year, aiming to regulate the boardwalk buskers.

The Ocean City Council voted unanimously Saturday to approve an emergency ordinance prohibiting public nudity after an advocate says Maryland law allows women to go topless in public.

About 300 paddlers seated in kayaks and canoes, and some standing on paddle boards, careened gently 2.5 miles from Canton Waterfront Park to the Inner Harbor Promenade Saturday morning.

The trial of a man charged with murdering a Park Heights father in November 2015, ended in a mistrial Friday, the city state's attorney's office said.

One person was killed and six others were injured in a spate of shootings across the city, Baltimore police said Saturday.

The MARC Camden Line is shut down south of Baltimore due to police activity, transportation officials said.

A Baltimore County police officer who was expected to go before the department's first public trial board Monday will instead return to work after his internal charges were dismissed this week, his attorney said.

Syed, star of 'Serial' podcast, subject of hearing today

A former City Springs Elementary School tutor will spend the next three months in jail after pleading guilty to slamming a 7-year-old student's head into a wall.

The attorneys for Adnan Syed, whose case was popularized in the "Serial" podcast, will return to court June 8 to again argue for a new trial.

Washington College's president Sheila Bair is resigning after two years, ending her five -year-term early at the Chestertown school, school officials announced Thursday.

A man and woman were killed and another man was injured in three separate shootings across Baltimore early Saturday, city police said.

A man died after he was ejected from a motorcycle when he tried to change lanes on Interstate 83 in Northern Baltimore County Friday, Maryland State Police said.

Clementine Alford was one of three new homeowners welcomed to their new neighborhood in Northeast Baltimore, just east of York Road, where Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake has be working to remodel rowhomes and sell them at affordable prices with interest-free loans.

The Mount St. Mary's University Board of Trustees named its interim leader as the Catholic university's 26th president this weekend.

Baltimore police announced multiple arrests Friday, including 15-year-old and 17-year-old boys who have been charged as adults in a non-fatal shooting in

The Baltimore Sun's "Shocking Force," investigation into Taser misuse in Maryland was recognized by the Associated Press Media Editors.

A former Baltimore prosecutor who helped supervise the juvenile division of the city state's attorney's office received a one-year sentence for a child pornography charge.

The attorneys for Adnan Syed, whose case was popularized in the "Serial" podcast, will return to court June 8 to again argue for a new trial.

A District Court judge in Baltimore denied bail on Tuesday to a daycare center employee charged with killing an 8-month-old girl last week.

A Baltimore County police officer who used a Taser on a Rosedale man last summer is scheduled to be the first to face a public trial board hearing next month.

Sandy Point, which overlooks the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, has grown to be one of the state's most popular parks, after Assateague, Gunpowder Falls and Patapsco Valley, and draws more one million visitors a year. But the park only holds about 5,000 and often reaches capacity by 10 a.m.

A Baltimore Police lieutenant overseeing the Horseshoe Casino district has been charged with theft, according to court records.

A bail hearing for a woman charged in the death of an 8-month-old girl at a Baltimore day care center has been postponed until Tuesday.

Baltimore police have charged an 18-year-old man in a double-shooting in West Baltimore last week.

A 24-year-old man was fatally shot early Wednesday morning in South Baltimore, city police said.

A second victim who caught fire during an altercation in White Marsh nearly two years ago has died, Baltimore County police said.

Police are investigating a fatal stabbing on the University of Maryland, College Park campus early Saturday morning.

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaking at commencement exercises Saturday at Morgan State University, decried the decline of "civilized discourse" during the election campaign last year and urged graduates to stay engaged in the world.

A 47-year-old man was found stabbed on St. Paul Street, just south of North Avenue Friday night, Baltimore police said.

Several Baltimore City Council members said Friday they would not support a budget for next year that does not include funding for the Safe Streets violence prevention program.

A group of boaters rescued a jet skier who was found unconscious, floating in the water in Middle River Thursday afternoon, according to the Maryland Natural Resource Police.

The death of a 58-year-old woman who hit her head during argument with a man in January is now being investigated as a homicide, Baltimore police said Friday.

A group of teens carjacked a woman carrying her seven-week-old daughter in Homeland Tuesday, following a similar incident two days earlier, raising concern among neighbors in the usually quiet North Baltimore neighborhood.

An off-duty city police officer is expected to survive after he was shot at his Gwynn Oak home Wednesday night, Baltimore County police said.

A woman suffered burns to her arm but managed to escape a fire in East Baltimore Wednesday morning, a city fire department spokeswoman said.

One man is in serious condition, and three others suffered non life-threatening injuries after a fight at a Federal Hill bar early Saturday, Baltimore police said.

Baltimore police have arrested and charged a 34-year-old for a fatal shooting in Violetville Friday.

On Saturday, about 60 people who gathered at the corner of North Avenue and Broadway for a Mother's Day weekend peace walk, held by the group, Mothers of Murdered Sons.

A two-alarm fire that broke out at an East Baltimore highrise last month was caused by an improperly discarded cigarette, the city fire department said.

Johns Hopkins student charged with making bomb threats on morning of exams

Police on Friday identified a 32-year-old man fatally shot outside his Baltimore County home.

An 18-year-old Owings Mills student was taken to the hospital Tuesday morning after he had been cut with a sharp object, Baltimore County police said.

The Skatepark of Baltimore is hosting a grand opening event Saturday at Roosevelt Park in Hampden.

The Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport Fire and Rescue Department and other agencies prepared for a mass casualty disaster at an emergency exercise at the airport on Saturday.

Baltimore police charged two men in two recent homicides, the department announced Friday.

Cathedral Street, between Madison and Monument streets in Mount Vernon, reopened after it was closed for more than six months due to underground utility work, the city's public works department said Friday.