Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh announced more than two dozen indictments for people involved in gang activity inside and outside of a Maryland prison. Among those arrested was a Maryland correctional officer who also happened to be a high ranking member of one of the nation’s deadliest gangs.
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The “most famous reindeer of all” leads the way at local annual icy holiday celebration
But do you recall, the most famous reindeer of all? He has made his way to town just before Christmas and came bearing gifts of colored, clear and glowing ice all from Harbin, China.
Montgomery County man brings rooftop ice skating to the Watergate Hotel
It sits on top of the Watergate Hotel and will be open until March, but there’s more to Mel’s Rink than just ice.
Revised plan underway for new FBI site, raising hopes in Maryland – again
WASHINGTON — After planning that began in the George W. Bush administration, officials from Maryland at the national and state level are cautiously optimistic the latest push for a new FBI complex located outside the District of Columbia will come…
How a wrongly imprisoned man got his life back
BALTIMORE, Maryland — They called him Mandela. Some inmates knew it was a nickname. Some didn’t. Either way, it didn’t matter much to Walter Lomax. He appreciated the comparison. He was a stern man — a writer. And like the…
Baltimore’s asthma hot spots are poor, African-American neighborhoods with lots of empty houses
ZIP code 21223 in Southwest Baltimore’s Carrollton Ridge neighborhood — one the city’s poorest — is the worst asthma hot spot in Baltimore, a Capital News Service and Kaiser Health News analysis of Maryland hospital records found.
At home, in schools, on the street, the triggers for asthma lurk everywhere
Your home is meant to be a safe haven. But what happens when your refuge makes you sick?
Rare Carrollton Ridge homeowner tethered to her house by bad health
Dawn Ford sits in her wheelchair in the hallway of her rowhouse on the 600 block of South Smallwood Street, gazing up at the old painting of two horses grazing in a field, mountains rising in the background.
Landlords, tenants and city bureaucracy play role in housing problems
Kristina Way says that when rats were coming into her house from the vacant property next door, the landlord wouldn’t block up the hole under the kitchen cabinets that let them enter.
Health educator: Carpets, even cleaning products can make asthma worse
Senior health educator explains asthma triggers prevalent in Southwest Baltimore.