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With horns consistently honking in the background, about 100 parents and students gathered Thursday afternoon outside the Howard County Board of Education headquarters in Ellicott City to advocate for a plan to get kids back into schools for in-person learning.

Matt and Mercedes Lemp say their son, Duncan, who was shot at their Maryland home during a no-knock police raid March 12, wasn’t a threat to the tactical unit officers and wasn't part of any extremist movement.

Anne Arundel County Board of Education candidates spoke with editors and reporters at The Capital on topics varying from school reopening to school resources officers.

The Orioles on Thursday lost their appeal of a decision ordering their regional television network to pay the neighboring Washington Nationals about $100 million more in broadcast rights fees.

The Carroll County commissioners clashed Thursday when one of them argued his colleagues should report to work in person after about seven months of holding board meetings remotely.

The biggest chunk of the money — $100 million — will be used to create an “emergency rapid response fund” for small businesses, so the state can pivot to help hard-hit areas or industries.

The antiviral medicine remdesivir gained publicity when President Trump took it to treat his case of COVID-19, but the drug isn’t exclusive to the highest office in the country. In fact, Carroll Hospital reports that about half of those hospitalized for the disease there have taken it.

Chance Taylor, a 22-year-old man, was charged in the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old from April, according to Baltimore police.

Baltimore City election officials no longer plan to temperature check every voter who chooses to vote in person this fall, but voters at higher risk for COVID-19 exposure may still have their temperatures checked.

Baltimore transportation officials are in the early stages of discussing new safety restrictions for restaurants that have expanded their outdoor dining operations after a driver crashed into a Federal Hill cafe’s outdoor patio.

Two Baltimore men have been charged with murder after the fatal shooting of a Rosedale man in late July, Baltimore County police said.

Now that public schools in Carroll County are back to in-person learning, how much information will the health department and the school system make available to the public about confirmed or potential COVID-19 cases among those who are using school facilities?

Lillian B. Hackerman, whose Baltimore-area philanthropic interests that she shared with her late husband, construction company executive Willard Hackerman, ranged from educational to cultural, medical and religious institutions, died Sunday. She was 100.

Anthony Santander was named one of three finalists for the American League Gold Glove Award at right field Thursday, the only Orioles player to be nominated.

More Howard County residents are voting via mail ballot in the 2020 general election than almost any county in the state, according to data from the Maryland State Board of Elections.

Howard County police have identified a body that was found earlier this week in Columbia and are investigating the death as a homicide, the department announced Thursday.

After a summer of uprising' the momentum is right to repeal Maryland's Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights.

The Coppin State men’s and women’s basketball programs are set to enter new territory with two former Terps stars heading both teams.

Experts say there’s been a gradual but growing realization that child care is an economic problem that crosses genders, races and income levels. And that was before the pandemic.

The fundraiser event is dedicated to the fight against breast cancer. Proceeds will go to the Carroll Hospital Center for Breast Health, along with Jen Elliott toward her fight with breast cancer. Elliott owns Market Tavern in Sykesville, which is closed right now after Elliott was diagnosed for a second time in a year.

When a Catholic priest in Towson told his parishioners that America is “staring into the abyss,” he could have been warning against a second term for President Trump. Instead, the priest was talking about a Biden presidency.

Threatening to kill and rape a presidential ticket is not just repugnant and criminal, it's unsurprising in this polarized political year and that's alarming all by itself.

Anne Arundel County Public Schools staff members feel they’ve been forced to return to classrooms under a hybrid reopening plan they don’t think addresses concerns on reducing the risk of spreading the coronavirus.

As people across the country prepare to tune into the last presidential debate, voters in Baltimore have a chance to hear from the candidates running to lead their city.

Keyia Yalcin, owner of Fishnet in Mount Vernon Marketplace, has launched a special on Baltimore’s iconic dish - lake trout - with a portion of the proceeds going to support Just Call Me Chef.

Maryland has now seen 10 straight days of triple-digit ICU hospitalizations after staying below 100 for most of September and the beginning of October.

Spectators lined up along Market House on City Dock. The crew of the Tall Ship Lynx climbed the masts of the ship to get a crows-nest view. Just before 11 a.m. Annapolis native-son Travis Pastrana successfully jumped a car across Ego Alley to raucous cheers from the crowd.

Howard County voters will have five sites to choose from come the last week of October when in-person early voting starts. Marriotts Ridge High School is the farthest west option Howard early voters will have this year, but it is 10 to 15 miles away from many of the county’s westernmost voters.

The Common Council of Westminster adopted a resolution Oct. 12 to extend Westminster Fiber Network beyond the town’s boundaries and to not charge the city’s taxpayers for the new customers. The users themselves will be responsible for payment.

These are the confirmed Maryland cases of the novel coronavirus, the illness that causes the COVID-19 disease, confirmed by the Maryland Department of Health. The charts and maps below show what has been reported by the state and update around 10 a.m. each day.

Between when the law was implemented Oct. 1, 2018 and Sept. 30, Maryland has granted 989 extreme risk protective orders, an average of about 8 orders per year per 100,000 residents. Only Florida has used it more, by just about 13%.

Five people were shot leaving one of them dead in overnight shootings in Baltimore city on Thursday.

The playlist will feature at least 50 artists who are either from Baltimore or otherwise have connections to the city's robust and diverse music scene.

Anne Arundel Board of Education candidates for the upcoming election have met with police and school officials to talk about the role of student resource officers in buildings.

Adm. Carlisle Trost, a 1953 graduate of the Naval Academy, died at the age of 90, due to complications from a fall, on Sept. 29.

Elementary school teachers will move around in a T-shape model from the front of the classroom to down the middle of the room. Students will have their own 6-foot bubble and can stand or turn to another to talk. The students at home will be projected on the screen and on the teacher’s computer.

With a little under three weeks left before the Manchester Town Council is scheduled to vote on an annexation to possibly accommodate construction of new homes, residents have spoken up with concerns about traffic and how the project might affect the area’s rural feel.

With a contentious presidential election just weeks away, Baltimore-area companies are joining a growing movement by corporate America to boost voter engagement through initiatives aimed at employees and customers.

A 16-year-old boy was killed and a 12-year-old boy was injured in a shooting in West Baltimore on Wednesday afternoon, according to Baltimore police.

Members of a group called Reopen Baltimore County Public Schools held a rally in Towson on Wednesday.