Talia Richman

“Harvard College Class of 2022!!” Mekhi Johnson posted to Facebook on May 1, college decision day.

Superintendent of Schools Karen B. Salmon made news Wednesday after she declined to approve Verletta White as Baltimore County’s permanent school superintendent, citing White’s recent ethic violations.

The CollegeBound Foundation is asking the Baltimore school system to make room in its $1.3 billion operating budget to fund a college and career adviser at every city high school.

A demolition crew working to tear down a vacant house in West Baltimore found a dead body among the debris, a police spokeswoman said.

A 53-year-old man from Brooklyn, New York, was killed in a crash Sunday on the B-W Parkway. Police said a preliminary investigation showed that the Dodge Charger and a third car, a red Chevy sedan, “may have been driving aggressively prior to the crash.”

An evolutionary biologist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, recently co-authored a study that shows how two species of ravens became one, a reverse of more typical evolution known as speciation reversal.

After years of shuttering schools around the city amid declining enrollment at budget constraints, the Archdiocese of Baltimore is planning to build its first new Catholic school in the city in more than 50 years.

Baltimore’s school system is once again set to spend roughly a quarter of its $1.3 billion budget on special education services, which serve about 15 percent of its student population.

Loyola Blakefield closed Monday after the administration was alerted to “threatening posts on social media,” school officials said.

Susan Iwunze Nwoga, 47, operates the independent Poplar Grove Pharmacy in Southwest Baltimore’s Franklintown Road neighborhood. Since 2013, Nwoga filled “patently fraudulent” customer prescriptions for drugs such as Oxycodone, alprazolam clonazepam and promethazine, according to the indictment.

The Baltimore City school district’s recently unveiled budget proposal cuts roughly $5.5 million from its 34 charter schools.

LaQuisha Hall, an English teacher at Carver Vocational-Technical High School, was named Wednesday as Baltimore’s 2018 Teacher of the Year.

Following a year in which the Baltimore city school district was forced to lay off 115 people to fill a massive budget shortfall — including the first classroom teachers to lose their jobs in a decade — this year’s $1.3 billion proposed budget includes no layoffs.

After a snow-filled winter, Maryland school districts are taking two routes to meeting the state's 180-day instructional requirement. They'll either extend the school year or seek a waiver from the state.

Jody Olsen will speak to graduates during the May 18 graduation ceremony in Baltimore’s Royal Farms Arena.

The television personality said that the students on the bus, which caught on fire along the New Jersey Turnpike, were from Baltimore. They were actually from Prince George's County

More than 100 people came to pick up trash in Bear Creek in Dundalk ahead of Earth Day.

A week before crowds of self-proclaimed proud geeks were scheduled to gather at Universal FanCon in the Baltimore Convention Center, organizers announced that the event has been postponed.

Some students left their classrooms at 10 a.m. Friday and gathered on the sidewalk outside the Patapsco High School building.

Fewer Maryland students are expected to leave their classrooms Friday morning for the second national school walkout against gun violence.

Four years after the Maryland State Department of Education began requiring the state’s public schools to give students the PARCC tests, some teachers remain concerned that the online version is helping to widen an achievement gap they’ve spent decades working to close.

Baltimore County community members remain deeply divided about the school board’s decision to hire Verletta White as the district’s permanent superintendent, with some worried that the contentious and unconventional selection process will cast a shadow on her administration moving forward.

The Loyola Blakefield team — the only Maryland school to make it to the final round of the national CyberPatriot contest — spent hours in quiet concentration, trying to earn points by defeating hackers and securing the computer servers of a fictional company.

Students from City Neighbors and the Park School of Baltimore are exploring the ways the civil rights era unfolded locally. They are interviewing civil rights veterans and visiting the places in their own neighborhoods where history happened.

The power was out for roughly three hours.

The National Weather Service has both counties on alert Thursday and Friday for the “enhanced threat” of wildfires.

As students here and across the country are expected to participate in the next scheduled walkout against gun violence on April 20, Carroll County public school students will not be allowed to participate. Other area school systems, meanwhile, are still discussing how to handle the protest.

Some Baltimore city schools are running behind schedule when it comes to holding the state-mandated number of safety drills this year.

Roughly an hour after the first call, heavy smoke and fire was still visible from the roofs of about a dozen homes. About 72 first responders were on site.

Mekhi Johnson, a senior at the Gilman School, has gotten into all the Ivy League schools, plus University of Chicago. He has not yet made his college choice.

It's been two weeks since a student there shot a classmate in the head before shooting himself. Both died, and another student was injured.

Charles Wight, the former president of Weber State University in Utah, will take over on July 1.

The former vice president will also receive a honorary doctorate of public service from the university during the May 20 ceremony at the XFINITY Center.

Brian Dowdall, a Baltimore-based visionary painter whose work captivated visitors at the American Visionary Art Museum, died March 21 at the age of 70.

Jaelynn Willey was a dedicated swimmer, a loving sister and was known for making the most delicious chocolate chip cookies. The 16-year-old was fatally wounded last week during a shooting at Great Mills High School in Southern Maryland.

Austin Wyatt Rollins, the 17-year-old boy who opened fire on classmates at Great Mills High School last week, died by shooting himself in the head, officials said.

A funeral for the 16-year-old victim of last week’s Great Mills High School shooting in Southern Maryland will be held Friday.

The Baltimore Teachers Union has voted to ratify new salary scales, endorsing a 2.5 percent pay raise for city teachers over the next two years.

Dr. Murray B. Sachs, a longtime Johns Hopkins University professor whose research laid the groundwork for the creation of cochlear implants, died March 3 at the age of 77.

With thousands of protesting students in the background, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh appeared on MSNBC during the March For Our Lives rally in Washington to call on Congress to listen to the voices of young people.

Less than six weeks after one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history — and four days after two students were shot at a school in St. Mary’s County — organizers of the March for Our Lives rally hoped the event would draw hundreds of thousands.

“After hitting so close to home, it becomes that much more real to us,” said one of the march organizers, 18-year-old Jillian Carty.

Maryland students are marching not just in honor of the 17 students, teachers and other staff killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during a school shooting last month, but also for the two students who were shot and injured by a classmate, who died, Tuesday at Great Mills High School.

If city school officials don't act quickly, they risk either going against Gov. Larry Hogan's mandate to have school between Labor Day and June 15 or breaking an agreement with the teachers' union.

The 16-year-old girl injured during a shooting at Great Mills High School on Tuesday has been identified as Jaelynn Willey.

The 14-year-old boy shot in a hallway at Great Mills High School minutes before class started Tuesday is in good condition Wednesday, hospital officials confirmed. The boy, who has been identified as Desmond Barnes, was shot in the thigh and is being treated at MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital.

Gunfire rang out at Great Mills High School in Southern Maryland as classes began Tuesday morning, the latest school shooting to rattle parents and set off another round of the national debate over gun control.

The Johns Hopkins University wants its own police department to address rising concerns about crime around its campuses. It would become the first private school in the state to have such a force and the idea is meeting with opposition.

Rescuers recovered the body of just one of the two people believed to have been on board the single-engine aircraft, officials said.

"Use caution if driving this morning," the National Weather Service tweeted.