County says it didn’t find evidence that Dundalk boy’s life was in danger
Baltimore County social workers visited the home of Roy Lechner Jr. more than 150 times in the two years before he died of suspected abuse - but didn't feel they...
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Murder suspect charged with soliciting killing of witnesses
Jailed and awaiting trial on armed robbery and attempted murder charges, a 19-year-old Middle River man is facing new charges that he arranged to have two witnesses in that case...
Teen gets 100 years in school shooting
Saying he could not begin to imagine the terror that students and teachers felt walking out of their school last spring as gunfire erupted, a Baltimore County judge sentenced an...
Shooting suspects to be tried together
An Owings Mills man's request to be tried separately from two other suspects in the Randallstown High School shootings last spring was turned down yesterday, clearing the way for prosecutors...
High court clears way for Oken execution
The Supreme Court cleared the way last night for Steven Oken to be put to death by lethal injection, lifting a federal court order upheld hours earlier that would have...
Schools seek change in education reform
Several school systems in the state are seeking modification of the requirement that they provide full-day kindergarten for all children by 2007, a costly element of a landmark education reform...
School bill effectively dead this Assembly
With chances that Carroll County public schools could be exempted from mandated all-day kindergarten likely dashed for at least a year, county leaders are regrouping, seeking like-minded allies in other...
Schools' snow day no day off for crew
He's got driveways, parking lots and sidewalks that need to be shoveled, plowed and salted. He has snow-clogged vents and roof drains to clear. Bus routes to survey, broken windows...
Activists rally to save park funds from cuts
Two years ago, the playground outside St. Katherine's Episcopal Church in Druid Heights was no place for children. Drug addicts and dealers roamed freely. Syringes, broken bottles and debris littered...
Schools relax water limits
Four months after one school twice ran out of water and another's well began kicking up mud and gravel, Superintendent Charles I. Ecker has relaxed emergency water restrictions that have...