Baltimore MD

In cities across the country, many Black households say rising prices are reshaping their daily routines. Costs for food, housing and health care continue to rise faster than wages. People are now making difficult choices about expenses that once felt ordinary. According to the September 2025 Consumer Price Index...

Catherine Hoggle, a Maryland mother with an extensive history of severe mental illness, has been deemed competent to stand trial on charges of killing her two children in 2014.

ICE Baltimore says it arrested Kevin Alexis Mendez-Ortiz late last month, during a targeted operation in Oxon Hill. According to the agency, Mendez-Ortiz is a Honduran national who crossed into the US illegally in 2022 and was released the same day — and is now accused of causing a violent crash that nearly killed a...

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — After the last Public Safety Committee hearing of the year, several questions were raised about a program FOX45 News has investigated for years. Safe Streets is part of Mayor Brandon Scott’s five-year violence reduction plan. The community violence reduction plan is run through the Mayor’s Office...

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Police were in Baltimore's Edmondson Village neighborhood investigating a shooting on Wednesday morning. According to police, officers responded to the 3900 block of Stokes Drive just before 1 a.m. for reports of a shooting. When on scene, officers found a 28-year-old who was suffering from being...

DUNDALK, Md. — School is where children should be able to learn safely. WATCH: Sandy Plains parents worried for children's safety after student attacks. But some parents at Sandy Plains Elementary School say their first graders have continually been attacked by another student. Candace Middleton and Brett West told...

COLUMBIA, Md. (WBFF) — Two female shoppers were robbed at the Mall in Columbia just after 5 p.m. Sunday. The suspect, described as "a male in a ski mask, carrying a skateboard," allegedly stole the shoes the girls were wearing and the kicks they had just purchased. Cornelious, reacting...

A 29-year-old man entered an Alford plea on Dec. 9, denying his guilt but accepting a 30 year sentence for the fatal shooting of DeAngelo West outside a Northeast Baltimore corner store the day after Christmas last year. West was shot exactly eight weeks after his 27th birthday, and succumbed to a fatal gunshot wound...

"I feel like it's like having a loaded gun in the house because it is dangerous," Woods said. "Edibles and other things that are infused with marijuana need to be handled the same way."

It was a turbulent week in Essex (and the east side of the county as a whole). Howard Sye, 31, was shot and killed by police around the 900 block of Holgate Drive in response to a stabbing. As always with these incidents, the officers were placed on leave while an investigation is conducted. In a separate shooting...