Tim Prudente

John Earl Williams shot six Baltimore police officers, killing one, a young father, before surrendering after a about a 40 minute attack that became known as the “Good Friday Shooting.”

The Maryland State Fair closed Monday night, but the crowds came until the end. Hundreds of families poured through the gates.

The 25-year-old son of former University of Maryland, College Park football coach Mike Locksley was shot and killed Sunday night in Columbia, police said.

An eighth Baltimore police officer has been indicted on federal racketeering charges.

The robber, Andrew Brown, 31, was convicted Monday of two counts of attempted robbery and using a gun in a violent crime, prosecutors said.

Three years after Maryland decided to hold public school students to higher standards, results of English and math assessments released Tuesday show students have made only slight progress.

A third police body-camera video showing “questionable activity” by a Baltimore police officer has emerged, prosecutors said Monday,

Lor Scoota, shooting, retaliatory, Fred Catchings Jr., Baltimore street violence

Molly McGrath Tierney, a fierce advocate of child welfare, announced Friday that she would resign as director of the Department of Social Services in Baltimore after nine years with the agency.

Rondell Williams, shooting, Baltimore, homicide

A 17-year-old from Southwest Baltimore has been charged with attempted murder in a triple shooting Sunday afternoon in the Brooklyn neighborhood of South Baltimore.

A 31-year-old woman from Northeast Baltimore was sentenced Tuesday to 100 years in prison for wounding two women, one of whom was pregnant, during a shootout in September, prosecutors said.

The former president of the Maryland chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, said she had considered chaining herself to the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Bolton Hill.

Prosecutors have dropped theft charges against a longtime Baltimore police detective accused of fraudulently inflating his education credentials for a pay raise.

Someone poured red paint over a Confederate monument in Bolton Hill, defacing the 114-year-old statue during the weekend in which violence erupted at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va.

Two Maryland doctors have been indicted on charges they sold painkiller prescriptions for cash.

A man is dead after being shot during a robbery inside a discount store in the Edmondson Village shopping center, Baltimore police said.

Isiah Jones, 24, one of dozens of people to have criminal charges dropped since a Baltimore police officer was accused of planting drugs, said he was innocent of the charges against him.

Federal appeals judges have unanimously reinstated a $2.3 million award to a homeless Baltimore man mistaken for the “Charles Village Rapist."

Joseph R. Metheny, a convicted killer from Baltimore, has been found dead in his prison cell.

The trial began Wednesday against Elias Josael Jimenez Alvarado and in unusual procedure prosecutors brought him to stand trial on both murder charges at once

Angel Fury was found guilty of murdering a traveler she met at Penn Station

Elias Josael Jimenez Alvarado rejected a plea deal Tuesday and heads to trial on chares he murdered two women last September in Baltimore

Civil rights leaders from Congress presented their legislative priorities Monday at the convention that has brought thousands of NAACP members from around the country to Baltimore.

Two Baltimore police detectives indicted in a long-running racketeering and robbery scheme are due in court Friday to change their pleas.

But prosecutors and defense attorneys presented disparate accounts of his killing when the murder trial began Wednesday against the woman, Angel Fury.

The Maryland State Board of Education is considering ways to broadly define schools to qualify for waivers to start school after Labor Day.

Bridgeford and other neighborhood leaders are drumming up support for a three-day ceasefire to quell Baltimore’s violence on the first weekend in August.

The trial opened Monday in the case of a Connecticut man found killed in a Baltimore hotel

After a deadly school bus crash last year in Southwest Baltimore, federal investigators requested an urgent audit of the system to screen city school bus drivers. Three months later, however, the audit has not begun, state and city education officials said.

Members of Gov. Larry Hogan's cabinet struck a deal Friday with Hungarian diplomats to ensure classes continue at McDaniel College's Budapest campus after the foreign nation tightened its higher education law.

Two centuries after the bloodiest battle of the American Revolution, crews have dug up the concrete lot to settle a mystery over the mass grave of these famed Maryland soldiers.

Baltimore City school officials are taking steps to bring safe municipal water back to schools a decade after lead contamination caused them to ban the use of drinking fountains.

Later the men hurried from her South Baltimore home with $20,000 in cash she had borrowed to payoff her taxes, leaving the Morrell Park woman another victim in a long-running robbery scheme allegedly orchestrated by detectives in an elite unit of the Baltimore police.

Three Baltimore police officers charged months ago in a racketeering ring have been indicted on additional robbery charges by a federal grand jury, prosecutors

Again and again, college financial aid offices would frustrate Jan Wagner and Michele Waxman Johnson.

Administrators have begun to overhaul Mary E. Rodman and five other city schools, an undertaking funded by a billion-dollar federal program to transform the nation's failing schools.

Baltimore Fire crews are battling a three-alarm fire in the city’s Curtis Bay neighborhood.

The two women were eight days into a city-wide campaign intended to stem the tide of children leaving Baltimore public schools.

McDaniel College found itself entangled in an international dispute between billionaire philanthropist George Soros and the Hungarian prime minister that's threatened its 23-year-old satellite campus in Budapest.

Navy scientists plan to test fire a long-range laser across the breadth of the Chesapeake Tuesday night.

Nearly two months on the job as Howard County schools chief, Michael Martirano has begun to reshuffle his administration and empower six deputies who will report directly to him.

Two auditors are locked in a battle over who is responsible for a $100 million pension liability for Baltimore school employees.

In the spirit of the agora of ancient Athens, Johns Hopkins University is partnering to build a forum for the civil discussion of divisive issues.

Faced with a shrinking student population and the fewer dollars it brings, Baltimore teachers are taking matters in their own hands with a city-wide enrollment drive.

With awareness on the rise, researchers in Maryland and Virginia are undertaking the first comprehensive studies of bottlenose dolphins in the Chesapeake Bay. Their early findings suggest more dolphins swim up the bay than they ever thought.

The Baltimore Teachers Union has filed a second grievance over the layoff of teachers and aides last week, saying city schools administrators failed to provide required notice that would allow union leaders to try and save the jobs.

John Due, a worldly collector and antiques dealer who ferried soldiers to Omaha Beach on D-Day and hitchhiked across America to see the West, died May 20 at the historical plantation he lovingly restored in Howard County.

A 19-year-old man was killed early Sunday when his car veered off Route 94 in Howard County and hit a tree, police said.

Baltimore city school administrators will layoff 115 people Thursday, including 21 people who work as librarians or school counselors and 24 assistant principals, the district has announced.