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Roy McGrath, who faces several fraud charges, failed to show up for his trial Monday.

As America’s schools confront dramatic learning setbacks caused by the pandemic, experts have held up intensive tutoring as the single best antidote. Yet even as schools wield billions of dollars in federal COVID relief, a small fraction of students have received school tutoring.

The pair, one a known neo-Nazi leader, aimed to “completely destroy this whole city,” according to the criminal complaint.

Adnan Syed, whose murder case rose to prominence through the hit podcast “Serial,” appeared in court Thursday in Maryland, where a three-judge panel considered whether the victim’s family experienced improper treatment when a Baltimore court overturned Syed’s conviction last year, allowing his release after more than two decades behind bars.

Montgomery County police are searching for a suspect who stole a gorilla statue from an antique store earlier this month. At about 3:15 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 4, the suspect drove up to Design Emporium Antiques on Howard Avenue in Kensington in an older model Chevrolet Colorado Z71 pickup truck. Surveillance video shows the suspect, who was wearing a dark-colored…

Baltimore’s new top prosecutor has dropped all charges against a Black man who stood trial four times for the same killing, freeing him after seven years in custody. Friday’s announcement by Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates ended a controversial case that repeatedly raised questions about police and prosecutorial conduct. Keith Davis Jr. had been accused of fatally shooting Pimlico Race...

A 9-year-old made a jaw-dropping discovery at Calvert Cliffs State Park in Maryland.

Nine-year-old Molly Sampson added something new to her collection of over 400 fossils on Christmas Day: a five-inch, 15-million-year-old megalodon tooth.

The daughter of a former U.S. diplomat was found guilty of second-degree murder in a fatal stabbing in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin said Wednesday that he has a type of lymphoma that’s a “serious but curable form of cancer” and he is beginning several months of treatment.

James Craig Jr. was found dead the morning after the fire, when his brother went looking for him.

Two D.C. educators named Jason Green share more than the same name.

An investigation by Maryland’s attorney general has identified 158 Roman Catholic priests in the Archdiocese of Baltimore accused of sexually and physically abusing more than 600 victims over the past 80 years. That’s according to court records filed on Thursday. Attorney General Brian Frosh announced that his office has completed a 463-page report on the investigation, which began in 2019....

Wes Moore will become Maryland’s first Black governor, reclaiming the office from the GOP in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-1.

Maryland firefighter Megan Warfield brushed aside her labor contractions to save a person trapped in their vehicle. 

The family of a young woman who was killed in 1999 will appeal a Baltimore judge’s recent decision to overturn the conviction of Adnan Syed, the man imprisoned for decades for Hae Min Lee’s death.

The woman says nurses ignored her screams for six hours while she delivered a baby in a solitary confinement cell.

Whether someone is sitting, standing or lying on their side when swallowing pills can make a major difference in the amount of time it takes for the medicine to start working, Maryland scientists say. A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore found that there is actually a science to posture and taking medication. “It really kind of…

A Baltimore family is suing an appraiser and a mortgage lender after their home was allegedly undervalued severely because they are Black. The couple applied last year to refinance their mortgage, and said the deal seemed to be progressing until an appraiser said the home’s value was too low. The plaintiffs disagree with how the appraiser came up with the...

A pair of pliers came in handy to help save the animal.