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In interviews with The Baltimore Sun, 15 former subordinates and colleagues at the city prosecutor’s office and the state attorney general’s office described Thiru Vignarajah as a man who punished both men and women for perceived disloyalty and humiliated them in front of colleagues.

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The consequences of climate change are already here, and will only become more pronounced, prompting Maryland residents, governments and businesses to respond. Climate Change: Ready or Not is an occasional series by Baltimore Sun reporter Scott Dance exploring the ways we are adapting to climate change, and the areas where more action is needed to protect lives and property.

Federal data show that buyouts remain a rare response to floods in Maryland. In the past decade, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has reported fewer than 20 buyouts in the state.

Gov. Larry Hogan’s administration says the state health department is "conducting a thorough review" of the way it handled TrueCare24’s noncompliance with state and federal health regulations.

Howard County school Superintendent Michael Martirano said Tuesday that school system staff are working with police to investigate what he has called an “alarming” video showing staff members at Howard County High School holding down and hitting a student in the cafeteria on Dec. 2.

Maryland utility leaders, regulators and critics say further preparation for increasingly extreme weather depends on how much we are willing to spend to harden the power system.

Baltimore and cities like it face tremendous challenges keeping residents safe and healthy from the threat of increasingly frequent and extreme heat waves.

Two years after she was convicted of arson and told a judge of a history of treatment at a psychiatric hospital, Jamerria Hall was out of prison and raising her son and daughter alone. What actions did social workers take to ensure the children’s safety?

Baltimore police officials say they have sent out a department-wide email clarifying that officers are not allowed to collect overtime pay while on paid vacation and have upgraded their technology to make it easier to catch instances of officers filing to do so.

A record number of self-banned gamblers have been slipping into Maryland's casinos during the coronavirus pandemic, risking arrest and having their winnings stripped, according to state and criminal records.

Five years after Freddie Gray died in police custody, the Maryland Transit Administration has finally allowed the public to view to scenes of unrest captured by a dozen surveillance cameras throughout the Mondawmin Mall transit hub.

Several former employees and Black would-be patrons at Atlas restaurants say the incident captured on viral video was not an isolated case at the restaurant group. They say it is part of a longstanding pattern of discrimination against African Americans.

Maryland health officials have never provided a full list of nursing homes where outbreaks have been confirmed, even to the administrators working to protect residents.

Documents obtained by The Baltimore Sun in a public records request reveal the Maryland Health Department's limited ability to keep CBD-infused products off the shelves.

State-run buses in Baltimore break down about six times more frequently than buses in St. Louis or Denver. A state-run subway through the city fails five times more often those in Cleveland or D.C. And, Baltimore’s light rail system breaks down three times more than Pittsburgh’s or Salt Lake City’s. Maryland Transit Administration vehicles fail or break down far more often than most other comparable cities, according to the most recent Federal Transit Administration data.

Every workday, thousands of people make the hour-long trek by car or train to work in the nation’s capital, but since last year Baltimore has approved spending more than $10,000 for city officials to stay in Washington hotels.

Maryland’s child support system, which is supposed to sustain children, is actually hurting some of the state’s neediest families — especially in Baltimore, an investigation by The Baltimore Sun has found. A dysfunctional system has decided that parents in struggling city neighborhoods owe tens of millions of dollars in back child support — a whopping $23 million in one West Baltimore ZIP code alone.

An investigation by The Baltimore Sun has found short-sighted policies hurt families and their communities. Over 20% of the $1 billion in child support debt owed in Maryland — much of it uncollectable — is concentrated in 10 struggling Baltimore communities, and thousands of dads, moms and kids are paying the price.

Buyouts are among Maryland football's largest expenses, even as officials struggle to reverse the program's fortunes.

A squabble over the recording of Baltimore police officers during training sessions — and whether it improves outcomes or stifles honest learning — played out this week between Commissioner Michael Harrison and the union that represents rank-and-file officers, further exposing their frayed relationship at a time of great violence in the city.

Following former Baltimore Del. Cheryl Glenn’s guilty plea to taking bribes in exchange for introducing legislation, it remains unknown to the public who made the payments that have Glenn facing a likely federal prison sentence.

Drug deaths and homicides have increased the burden on medical examiners, who are leaving their posts in Maryland and elsewhere.

A Baltimore Sun analysis of every hour of overtime paid over the past two fiscal years shows for the first time the outsize workloads logged by individual officers, often with little oversight from supervisors. But police insist things are improving.

Dozens of additional businesses in Baltimore have contacted city officials to report issues with their water bills — or lack thereof — since revelations last fall that wealthy waterfront condominium owners at the Ritz Carlton Residences hadn’t paid for their water service in over a decade, Baltimore officials said.

Almost a dozen Democrats have filed to run in the primary election for Baltimore’s next mayor, but even that large number doesn’t reflect just how crowded the field is in this deep-blue city. Several of the best-known candidates have yet to formally submit their paperwork — including Mayor Bernard C. “Jack”, City Council President Brandon Scott and former Mayor Sheila Dixon — ahead of the Jan. 24 deadline.

Maryland police departments destroyed 270 rape kits over the past two years, according to new data released by the Maryland Attorney General’s Office.

Definitions of mass shootings vary, but by one count Baltimore suffered 18 of them last year, more than in any recent year.