Silver Spring MD

Howard County Police announced that 26-year-old Mohammed Halawa was found dead in a wooded area by a search team at around 10:30 a.m. on Dec. 6. Officials confirmed "there are no indications of foul play." The discovery followed a large first responder presence across neighborhoods and wooded areas off Trotter...

Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services (MCFR) responded to a collision at Oakmont Avenue and Railroad Street in Gaithersburg on Friday evening where a train struck a single vehicle, prompting a large fire and rescue response. According to Chief Spokesperson for MCFRS Pete Piringer, train traffic is stopped in...

Responding officers found a man who had been stabbed. He was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

MARYLAND — A yearslong surge in displaced roosters is overwhelming animal sanctuaries in Maryland and across the country, fueled by a pandemic-born boom in backyard chicken coops and the noisy realities of owning a male bird. “All the time — calls, emails, text messages wanting us to take roosters,”...

Maryland's newest department had a tall order, to "advance social and economic mobility for all," and then the feds changed their DBE rules. But Acting Secretary Walter Simmons was largely confident at his agency's first committee appearance.

The ex-NYC jails boss who oversaw a huge surge of violence on Rikers Island is helping Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani reshape the Big Apple’s public-safety policies. Former Correction Commissioner Vincent Schiraldi — a longtime soft-on-crime, juvenile-justice activist — is one of 20 appointees named to the socialist...

MARYLAND — Two people are dead and two others critically injured after a shooting early Saturday in Southwest Baltimore, according to city police. Officers and paramedics were called around 5:40 a.m. to the 1800 block of McHenry Street for reports of gunfire. When they arrived, they found four people shot inside a...

HAGERSTOWN- The Maryland Department of Agriculture is reminding farmers that the winter ban on spreading manure, food processing residuals (FPRs), and other nutrient sources on cropland begins on December 16. Farmers can resume spreading these materials on March 1, 2026, as long as they follow their nutrient...

The suspect charged in the deadly shooting of a man at the MGM National Harbor​ is being held without bail.

Incarcerated individuals were transferred from a Maryland correctional facility in Baltimore after concerns were raised about the structure of the building, according to the State Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS).