Colin Campbell

Two staunch opponents of the demolition of Coultrap School have turned their attention to ensuring that the old building is remembered. Colin and Glorianne Campbell of Geneva lobbied the Geneva Community Unit School District 304 board at its most recent...

A Baltimore County police officer shot and killed the sword-wielding uncle of an attempted-murder suspect Thursday, authorities said, in a bizarre end to a case that began when a teen was found in a Howard County field last month with a gunshot wound to...

Drug addicts sit on the front steps of Anthony Williams' West Baltimore home and use. The only homeowner left on his block of North Schroeder Street in the Poppleton neighborhood, Williams fears transients living in the vacant rowhouse next door will...

Police released a new video Tuesday that shows a man believed to have kidnapped Violet R. Ripken stopping during the abduction to shop at an Anne Arundel County store. As the investigation continues, Ripken, the 74-year-old mother of Orioles legend Cal...

As soon as Cal Ripken Jr. found out his mother was missing, he jumped in his car and set out to find her himself. The Orioles' "Iron Man" got a call from his sister, Elly, about 9 p.m. July 24 saying that someone spotted a car bearing Violet Ripken's...

Eliyahu Werdesheim avoided a prison sentence Wednesday for the 2010 attack of a black teenager in Northwest Baltimore, in a case that heightened community divides. Werdesheim, a former member of an Orthodox Jewish citizens' watch group, was sentenced...

Kenneth Lyles, a barber at the Total Male on East Monument Street, described the devastating scene: a loud bang on the street that sounded like the passing tow truck had hit something and then a deep hole in the pavement opening quickly, peeling down away...

A handful of firefighters sat grimly around a table in the North Montford Street firehouse, sweating in the afternoon heat Friday as their battalion chief took inventory of the equipment in Truck 15. The truck, along with the century-old company, will...

A woman died following a two-alarm fire at a duplex in the Gambrills area of Millersville that caused $80,000 in damages Sunday night. The woman, estimated to be in her 70s, was found unconscious and unresponsive by firefighters on the second floor of...

Patrons at Tark's Grill were eating in the dining room and drinking at the bar when the ferocious storm struck Friday night and the Brooklandville restaurant went dark. The Green Spring Station establishment was among many Baltimore-area eateries and...

The Millersville woman who died in a two-alarm fire at a duplex in the Gambrills area Sunday night has been identified by the Anne Arundel County Fire Department as Lolita Mitchell. Mitchell, 78, was found unconscious and unresponsive by firefighters...

A summer heat wave expected to last through the weekend is now blamed for seven deaths across Maryland, and public officials called Monday for Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. to act quickly to repair power outages or risk more deaths. Four people died...