Talia Richman

Students at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute poured out the back doors of the school and onto the football field just before 10 a.m. Wednesday, joining with thousands of students in Maryland and across the nation in a coordinated effort.

More than 130 private schools in the Maryland region took out a full-page ad in Wednesday’s Baltimore Sun calling on legislators to enact common sense gun laws.

The city’s teacher union said in a statement Tuesday that Hogan should refuse to “accept any federal dollars to support arming teachers here in Baltimore City and across the state of Maryland.”

Goucher College recently launched the most ambitious capital campaign in the school’s history, aiming to raise $100 million by 2022.

Universities have a unique role to play in this field of study. For more than 20 years, Congress has essentially barred the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from conducting research on gun violence.

Students were injured when a car struck a Baltimore elementary/middle school Friday morning, city fire officials said.

The Baltimore Metro Subway service will be free through Sunday, the Maryland Transit Administration said. The system reopened Friday after a monthlong shutdown.

One local school district says students will not be allowed to walk out of school for the event.

The district previously used a family’s eligibility for the Free and Reduced Meals program as a proxy for poverty. It’s now based on a family’s participation in federal aid programs, which immigrants are less likely to apply or qualify for.

Hundreds of Baltimore students walked out of class and marched to City Hall on Tuesday to protest gun violence and call for stricter gun control legislation.

The grant program is inspired by NBC's upcoming drama "Rise."

Pastor Marshall Lee Barnes has barely eaten or slept since the moment he first smelled smoke at his East Baltimore church, the historic Grace Memorial Baptist Church, Sunday morning.

Wind gusts over 60 mph ripped through the Baltimore region Friday, closing highway access in many areas due to accidents, high wind and felled trees, and causing more than a quarter million power outages. One Baltimore County woman was struck and killed by a falling tree.

A 76-year-old Baltimore County woman was killed Friday after she was struck by a falling tree branch outside her home, county officials said.

A massive tree fell on McKeldin Mall at the University of Maryland, which closed Friday due to a powerful storm moving through the region.

A tree fell onto a car that was traveling through the streets of Baltimore early Friday, as a powerful wind storm began to impact the region.

The Baltimore City school system saw a nearly 30 percent decline in school counselors since 2014.

Baltimore County firefighters found a man’s body amid a house fire in the Windsor Mill area early Thursday morning, a department spokesman said.

With donations from Adam Jones, support from activists like Aaron Maybin, 'Black Panther' is making an impact in cities like Baltimore.

Prior to Friday, Damion Champ knew how to do his little girl’s hair just one way: a style he calls the emergency ghetto-fabulous ponytail.

A handful of Maryland colleges have joined a chorus of universities in assuring high school students that they won’t be penalized during the admissions process should they protest gun violence.

Baltimore County police arrested a 21-year-old Baltimore man after he allegedly threatened to shoot University of Maryland, College Park police officers.

Baltimore-area school systems sent out community alerts about social media threats Monday morning, continuing a trend that area police departments have seen ever since the mass shooting at a Florida high school on Feb. 14.

Maryland’s state superintendent said she’s calling an emergency meeting of the Maryland Center for School Safety board on Monday to “ensure that every resource is available is being used to make schools safe. But she also said the more should be done to support and counsel troubled students.

Kimberly Tatuem, a teacher at NACA II, said she's shocked by how many people love her door decorations.

The board could still decide to keep the current interim superintendent, Verletta White.

The entire Baltimore Metro system is now in its second week of a total shutdown. This means delays for the city’s young commuters who now have to add more time to the beginning and end of their school day.

The Baltimore school board has approved a policy that requires district employees to report any financial wrongdoing or improper conduct they see in the school system, while protecting whistleblowers from retaliation.

After a stretch of warm weather Friday, Baltimore and surrounding areas in northern Maryland saw snow showers Saturday.

On Thursday — one day after a shooting rampage in a Florida high school killed 17 — a student in Baltimore was caught with a BB gun at school.

A 14-year-old Loch Raven High School student was arrested Thursday after Baltimore County police said he brought a pellet gun to school.

Several students walked up to Baltimore school police officer Tiffany Wiggins Thursday morning and asked her, “What are we going to do if there’s a school shooting here?” The children’s questions come a day after a 19-year-old expelled student went on a shooting rampage at his former high school,

The National Weather Service predicts temperatures in Baltimore will reach nearly 70 degrees today. But by Saturday, snow is likely.

Some of the elements of the Schroeders’ trip to Baltimore are practical: They had to pick up their son’s belongings from the police station. But they’re also hoping to accomplish something more meaningful while they’re in the city where their oldest son died.

The decision was in line with city schools CEO Sonja Santelises’ recommendation, who cited the school’s need to improve its finances and special education services.

Juliette B. Bell said in a letter to the campus community that she wants to pursue other passions and spend more quality time with her family, including her five grandchildren.

It happens every few months: Joshua T. Dickerson will log onto social media and see his most famous poem circulating, attributed to someone else — this time, a Baltimore student.

During emotional testimony Monday in Baltimore County Circuit Court, Cpl. Royce Ruby said he kept his eyes on Korryn Gaines, the 23-year-old Randallstown woman he ultimately shot and killed during the standoff in her apartment building.

Gone are the days where a school nurse offered only basic care for scrapes, fevers and stomachaches.

Hopkins dean cited "diminished enrollments, faculty turnover and retirements, and a lack of identity and programmatic focus" as reasons for ending the program.

"Black Lives Matter Week of Action in Schools,” began last year in Seattle and Philadelphia. This year, more than 20 cities took part, including Baltimore, Chicago and New York City.

In a letter to Del. Cheryl Glenn, chair of the of the state’s legislative black caucus, the governor’s chief legal counsel Robert Scholz said Hogan is willing to discuss using $100 million to supplement the state’s support for HBCUs over a ten-year period.

Amid years of declining enrollment, university president Kurt Schmoke was faced this year with closing a more than $4 million budget gap.

A Maryland hunter, part of a larger hunting party shooting birds on the Eastern Shore, was flown to Shock Trauma after a falling goose struck him.

Baltimore should brace itself for a cold, wet weekend.

Charles Street was closed between Lombard and Baltimore Streets, the city’s Department of Transportation tweeted early Thursday morning. Just before 9 a.m., DOT tweeted that Charles Street had reopened in that area.

Firefighters responded Thursday morning to a fire in Baltimore's Upton neighborhood.

A fatal car crash in Columbia left one person dead Tuesday morning, according to Howard County Police. A second person was transported to Shock Trauma and is stable, police said.

Naomi Mburu is a chemical engineering major at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the school's first ever Rhodes Scholar.

State flagship universities across the U.S. are enrolling disproportionately few black students. UMD, College Park represents one of the most stark examples of the disparity.