Talia Richman

City Auditor Audrey Askew told Baltimore’s Board of Estimates that these improper payments “result in the city’s loss of revenues, decreased integrity and unreliability of information provided by the YouthWorks program.”

Special police officers — like the one who shot a man outside a Northwest Baltimore methadone clinic on July 9 — are not required by the state to complete training before assuming their posts.

The Baltimore City Council is poised to pass a charter amendment designed to limit big money’s influence in local campaigns.

Capital Gazette editor Gerald Fischman was one of five staff members killed in the June 28 attack on the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis.

The organization is gearing up to spend nearly $100,000 to build raised walkways around the boat show area.

U.S. Army Secretary Mark Esper spent Friday morning visiting Fort Meade, a brief trip that culminated in the swearing-in ceremony. He said it was the first time since assuming his position roughly eight months ago that he’s led new recruits in reciting the Oath of Enlistment.

An 11-year-old girl suffered burn injuries after another child lit sparklers too close to her during an Independence Day celebration, according to the Anne Arundel County Fire Department.

The Anne Arundel public school system has planned a series of discussions this summer to address a variety of issues facing county students.

The County Council is considering a resolution that would pose a question to the voters in the November election: Should their charter be amended to require the County Council to confirm the county executive’s choice of police chief?

Thomas Marquardt, the Capital’s former publisher, said the paper’s former attorney turned over to police mail received at his law office Monday — a document, signed in the suspect’s name, saying he was on his way to the newspaper “with the objective of killing every person present.”

Federal, state and county courts and Anne Arundel County offices will be closed Wednesday for the Fourth of July holiday.

Anne Arundel County voters won’t get a chance to vote on a charter amendment that would limit the county executive’s authority in hiring the county attorney.

For years, the woman says she was terrified that Jarrod Ramos would “show up anywhere, at any time, and kill me.”

From the moment gunfire rang out at the Capital Gazette newsroom, journalists there began covering their own tragedy.

Five members of Maryland’s congressional delegation are asking the Secretary of Labor to take action now that the visas of 25 Baltimore teachers are set to expire this month.

Jordan McNair died June 13, two weeks after collapsing during an organized team workout in College Park.

Johns Hopkins Hospital is at the forefront of a burgeoning movement of medical institutions embracing “rapid autopsies” — a procedure ideally conducted within six hours of a person’s death, before tissue start to significantly degrade.

The University of Maryland has hired a sports medicine consulting group to conduct an external review of the football team’s protocols after the death of a 19-year-old offensive lineman.

Summer camps across the Baltimore region opened on Monday. Sunscreen-slathered kids showed up to play soccer, sail or revel in the sun. There was just one problem: For many of the children, school was still in session.

By Friday afternoon at the Gossett Football Team House, white votive candles had been arranged to spell out out No. 79, Jordan’s jersey number.

The Baltimore school system's 2018-2019 calendar designates the first two days of spring break as potential “inclement weather recovery days.” But the teachers union contract requires that teachers get a vacation of five consecutive days each spring.

Jordan McNair, 19, was entering his sophomore season on Maryland’s football team this fall. He died Wednesday, two weeks after collapsing during an organized team workout in College Park.

Some T-Mobile customers may be temporarily unable to reach 9-1-1, according to the Baltimore Fire Department.

The visas of roughly 25 Baltimore public school teachers will expire at the end of this month, forcing the foreign educators to return to countries many of them haven’t considered home for a decade.

The Baltimore school board voted to approve just one out of six charter school applications, prompting outrage from charter supporters who crowded into the meeting Tuesday night.

One of the students involved in the fight used pepper spray, affecting five other students in her vicinity, said county police spokesman Cpl. Shawn Vinson.

The Baltimore school police could soon be governed by a sweeping set of new policies and general orders that emphasize their role in maintaining safe schools while avoiding the criminalization of students.

Are safety concerns really why opponents refuse to play one of the best football teams in the country, Baltimore's St. Frances Academy? Given that the school is devoted to educating poor, inner-city blacks, and plays in a conference of more privileged and preppy schools, the answer is complicated.

The system handed out 28,420 degrees in 2008. By 2017, that number had risen to 40,303.

Under the new school accountability system, the rate of chronic absence is worth a whopping 15 out of 100 points, one of the largest percentages if any state in the nation.

The Baltimore City school board is considering applications for six new charter schools in the city, including a second location of the Baltimore International Academy.

On Sunday morning, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute’s seniors will walk across the stage for their graduation ceremony. Among them will be four students heading to Ivy League schools in the fall and six students who earned a perfect score on at least one SAT section or subject test.

A debate moderator recently asked a field of Democratic candidates for governor what they thought was the biggest barrier facing struggling Baltimore city schools, given that the district “spends the fourth-most per student in America." That figure, however, isn't quite true.

With flags at half-mast behind her, Baltimore schools CEO Sonja Santelises stood in front of district headquarters and read the names of the nine city students who have been lost to gun violence since last school year.

Ellicott City was devastated by floodwaters Sunday, just two years after another storm ravaged the historic Howard County site.

“When people come here, they see this is a community where everyone knows each other and is very tight-knit. You get to see just how involved this neighborhood is.”

As people across Maryland celebrate Memorial Day weekend, the National Weather Service on Sunday cautioned that flash flooding could be possible.

Four people were wounded in violent incidents in Baltimore on Saturday, according to police.

“Your degree now authorizes you to change the world,” said Bryan Stevenson, the social justice leader and lawyer who founded the Equal Justice Initiative.

It would be a divergence from the traditional recitation often heard in TV cop shows, which begins: “You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.”

Just over 1,900 students in Perry Hall area schools were stuck in their schools, unable to leave as Baltimore County police searched for the suspects in the killing of a police officer Monday afternoon.

The Baltimore school district established new guidelines for closing schools in hot weather, months after complaints about freezing classrooms sparked widespread outrage.

The 72-hour event in Baltimore centers around the rallying cry, “Nobody kill anybody.”

Students from across the city stepped out of yellow buses Friday morning and poured into Royal Farms Arena. Drummers and lines of volunteers greeted them with high-fives and cheers as they made their way to Baltimore’s first-ever College Signing Day event.

The Baltimore school system Thursday recognized about 20 seniors who are on track to graduate this spring after coming through its “Re-Engagement Center,” which is aimed at getting students back into school after they have dropped out, been incarcerated or otherwise derailed on their path.

A rec center’s basketball court was transformed into a crime scene after a 16-year-old was shot and killed there Tuesday around 8:20 p.m.

The Baltimore school board voted 6-2 to pass next school year’s $1.3 billion operating budget, which manages to avoid a call for layoffs but includes steep cuts for the city’s public charter schools.

Radee Prince is charged with attempted murder for shooting a Delaware man, and faces first-degree murder charges in Maryland.

The man charged in the killing of a black student on the University of Maryland campus last year has asked a judge to exclude evidence tying him to a Facebook page called “Alt-Reich: Nation.”

Almost immediately after the Baltimore County School Board voted 8-4 to hire Verletta White as superintendent, dissenting members ignited a grassroots lobbying effort to ask the state schools superintendent to block the appointment.