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…
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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.
Prison gang, drug investigation nets 26, including guards
BALTIMORE — Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh on Thursday announced the indictments of 26 people, including two correctional officers, with charges ranging from attempted first-degree murder to drug distribution.
Proposed legislation aims to stop online sex trafficking
WASHINGTON – Last year, Maryland had the 13th-most sex trafficking cases in the country with 161, according to the National Human Trafficking Hotline. This year, the hotline reported 61 sex trafficking cases in this the state as of June 30.…