Alex Mann

Maryland reported 3,732 new cases of the coronavirus Friday and 43 more deaths, lurching the state closer to 300,000 cases a day after it surpassed 6,000 deaths.

Maryland reported 1,862 people currently hospitalized with the coronavirus Wednesday, the most since officials began tracking the pandemic in March.

Seven people died in fires in Baltimore in 2020, the fewest recorded in the more than 200 years the fire department has been around, fire officials said.

Maryland reported on Tuesday 1,956 new coronavirus cases and added at least 54 more COVID-19 deaths to the pandemic’s casualty count, which reached 5,913.

After his absence sparked concern and a neighborhood search effort, Baltimore community leader Rodney Carr has been located after going missing for over a week, his colleague said.

Baltimore Police are investigating three apparent homicides, including a fatal stabbing, and multiple shootings as the city has seen a wave of violence since the new year began.

The woman was found stabbed around 4:15 a.m. Friday morning in West Baltimore, police said.

Despite a decline in new coronavirus cases and deaths reported in the last 24 hours, the percentage of people testing positive in the past week climbed Saturday for the sixth day in a row.

It took almost an hour to read the names, more than 300 of them.

Appointments were set aside for first responders and healthcare workers.

After a marathon meeting Tuesday night, Democratic leaders in Baltimore selected lawyer and former educator Marlon Amprey to succeed Nick Mosby in the Maryland House of Delegates.

A 911 specialist for the Baltimore City Fire Department has died from “COVID-19-related symptoms,” the first member of the fire department to have died from complications with the virus, officials said.

Baltimore will pay nearly $200,000 to five librarians at the Enoch Pratt Free Library after a federal judge found that the city discriminated against a group of female supervisors by paying them less because of their sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Tuesday.

The shooting took place in the area of North Avenue and Smallwood Avenue.

The 22-year-old arrived at a hospital for treatment.

Katiza Melette spent two decades as an office support specialist for the Baltimore Police Department.

A woman from Montgomery County wanted for stealing a car in Pennsylvania was identified Monday as the driver who lost control of a vehicle Saturday and crashed into a Baltimore County police car, injuring an officer, police say.

A person suspected in a string of armed robberies in Harford County apparently shot themself while being pursued by sheriff’s deputies and police officers in Baltimore County Sunday morning, authorities said.

A man was shot in the stomach Sunday afternoon in Northeast Baltimore, marking the second nonfatal shooting in the city this weekend, police said.

A 58-year-old woman died overnight at the hospital after being struck by a vehicle Saturday afternoon in Laurel, prompting Howard County police to investigate the fatal collision.

An explosion at the BGE offices in downtown Baltimore Wednesday morning left “at least” 10 people injured, the fire department said.

High school seniors have served as pages in the Maryland General Assembly for 50 years. But for the first time since the program started in 1970, they'll have to participate virtually via Zoom, a subtle side note to a meeting of the legislature that is expected to be unlike any before because of the coronavirus pandemic.

On the eve of his inauguration earlier this month, Democratic Mayor Brandon Scott nominated Christopher J. Shorter, an assistant city manager in Austin, Texas, for the post directing the day-to-day operations of city government.

Several Marylanders who lost family members to the coronavirus in 2020 shared memories of their loved ones, in hopes that their stories will reinforce the excruciating reality of the pandemic to a public increasingly numb to the numbers and weary of mask-wearing.

The long-dysfunctional system, run by the city, has consistently left residents and businesses in the dark about what they owe.

Online learning instituted during the coronavirus pandemic could change snow days in Maryland forever. Some parents and former students reminisce about what made those breaks from school so magical.

A group of Baltimore restaurateurs representing about 30 businesses gathered before cameras Monday to express their displeasure with Mayor Brandon Scott’s new dining restrictions and to urge him to reverse course.

A 7-year-old boy was abducted by his mother in Glen Burnie amid a custody dispute between his parents, prompting authorities to issue an Amber Alert early Friday morning, Anne Arundel County police say.

Maeve McKean, 41, and son, Gideon Joseph Kennedy McKean, 8, had been seen struggling to return to shore in a canoe and were last sighted 10 miles south of Annapolis near Herring Bay, authorities said.

It was called in as a small electrical fire but quickly grew as cars became engulfed. At least five cars were singed.

State court administrators are reviewing procedures for Maryland’s new electronic filing system after it came to light the system lacks safeguards to prevent attorneys from indiscriminately hiding their court filings from the public.

Defense attorneys on Wednesday were given more time to review mental health records, likely pushing the proceedings into next year.

With his guilty plea Monday to murdering journalists of the Capital-Gazette newspaper, Jarrod Ramos advances to hearings to decide whether the gunman will be locked up in state prison or committed to Maryland’s maximum-security psychiatric hospital.

Hampstead Councilman David Unglesbee has submitted an application to the State’s Department of Planning’s Historical Trust to commemorate U.S. President Calvin Coolidge stopping at the Hampstead Train Station — a relic of the town’s rich railroad past.

Film director Alexandra Shiva “sort of fell into doing documentaries” when she was working on a photo essay in India in the late 1990s. The Times caught up with Shiva about her latest film “This is Home: A Refugee Story," which has a special screening scheduled for March 28 at McDaniel College.

A Westminster man was arrested Thursday after stabbing, punching and striking a woman with a vodka bottle, police say.

In 2018, serious crime decreased for the fifth consecutive year in Westminster, police data shows. Police Chief Thomas Ledwell maintains that addressing the perception of crime — Westminster citizens feel less safe away from their homes, a city survey showed — is critical.

It’s 10:30 a.m. on March 20 near Taneytown, and the last full day of winter is over. The race is on to get fields ready for crop seeds.

A helicopter is on the scene of a single vehicle crash on Md. 140 near Mayberry Road, Maryland State Police Say. 

Hampstead Councilman David Unglesbee has proposed to restore the nondescript cemetery where the town’s founding family is believed to be buried.

Nico Pierre Graham, 18, of Westminster, was arrested Friday after shooting minors with a BB gun from a vehicle, Westminster Police say. Graham, of the Unit block of Charles Street, has been charged with two counts each first- and second degree assault and reckless endangerment, court records show.

A number of Taneytown Police Department officers signed a letter offering support for acting Chief Jason Etzler and recommending his position be made the permanent. Etzler was promoted to acting chief after longtime Police Chief William Tyler pleaded guilty to federal machine gun charges.

Westminster police have cleared the majority of malicious destruction of property cases reported between March 8 and 11, confirming the suspect as the man who a Maryland state trooper shot and killed Monday morning.

Westminster police narcotics detectives working a “specialized” plain-clothes detail arrested a man on drug-related charges Wednesday, the department says.

Carroll County law enforcement agencies are working to determine the cause of numerous reports of destruction of property leading up to and after Monday’s deadly encounter between a trooper and a Westminster man.

At his first Mayor and Common Council meeting as head of the Westminster Police Department, Chief Thomas Ledwell outlined his policing and public safety initiatives during a week in which a rape was reported at a public library and a trooper shot a man after he was stabbed.

A Westminster man was arrested and charged after punching and choking a woman on Saturday, police say.

Victor Lee Smith, 22, of the 2800 block of Manchester Road, has been charged with one count each of second-degree rape — defined as having sexual intercourse with a person under the age of 14 — a third-degree sex offense and second-degree assault, according to electronic court records.

A proposed amendment changing the vehicle for state Delegate April Rose’s legislation to give Maryland public school students more opportunities to pursue coding courses could be an avenue forward for otherwise heavily opposed bills.

Every municipality in Carroll County has an election scheduled in May, with candidates seeking to fill council and mayoral seats for those incumbents whose four-year terms have expired. The filing dates for some are fast approaching.