Indiana football enters CFP discussion in 2025 with impeccable resume

GRAPEVINE, Texas — When the College Football Playoff committee meets this week, the group will be hard-pressed to find any faults in Indiana football’s 2025 resume. That wasn’t necessarily the case last year, as evidenced by the mock selection...

Maryland Supreme Court to Decide Landmark Climate Case Against Oil Companies

The nationwide campaign of climate-driven lawsuits made its way to the Maryland Supreme Court on Oct. 6, as a lawyer for Baltimore, Annapolis, and Anne Arundel County told justices that Marylanders had suffered costly damages from rising seas and...

Maryland’s Small Game Seasons Provide Abundant Fall Hunting Opportunities

Gray, red (piney), and eastern fox squirrels can be hunted in Maryland from September until February. Photo by Ranger Elena Gilroy, Maryland Department of Natural Resources. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources reminds hunters that...

Baltimore County Council pushes to block landfill toxic wastewater release

Opposition is growing in Baltimore County to a landfill’s plan to dump more of its toxic water discharge into the Bird River. The county council is expected to ask the Maryland Department of the Environment to reject the proposal. Katherine...

Pick to head Prince George's County environmental agency passes during contentious hearing Samuel Moki’s confirmation hearing before the Prince George’s County Council on Tuesday was contentious. Forty-five people signed up to speak both for an agains

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, Md. (7News) — Samuel Moki’s confirmation hearing before the Prince George’s County Council on Tuesday was contentious. Forty-five people signed up to speak both for and against his controversial appointment by County...

State Roundup: Judge gives unaffiliated voters a partial win; Trump freezes Army Corps projects in Maryland, other states; fight over Lottery contract heads to court

JUDGE ISSUES PARTIAL RULING IN FAVOR OF UNAFFILIATED VOTERS: An Anne Arundel County Circuit Court judge issued a partial ruling Monday in favor of a group of unaffiliated Maryland voters who are challenging the state’s closed primary election...

Maryland congressmen hold rally calling for end to government shutdown

TEAM MARYLAND DEMOCRATS ANGRY, FIRED UP AND TICKED OFF, AND THEY STAGED A PRESS CONFERENCE TO SEND THE MESSAGE ABOUT WHY, RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE BUILDING. SO RIGHT NOW, THE SHUTDOWN IS SCARY. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, WE...

Some major projects in Baltimore face uncertainty amid government shutdown

It is day 21 of the federal government shutdown and funding for some major projects in Baltimore could be eliminated. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the White House are not releasing any details on the $11 billion worth of projects that...

Baltimore County has erected a wall of secrecy around its $100,000 payment to a former Olszewski aide

In 47 years of working in and writing about local government in Maryland, I’ve never seen a more brazen assault on fundamental principles of transparency and accountability than the efforts by the administrations of former Baltimore County...

Planned Trump staffing cuts loom over National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife, Land Management

Cuts to the federal agencies that manage national parks, science and public lands are expected to result in firings across the West, Southeast and Great Lakes, among other places, Trump administration plans reveal. In a court filing this week, the...

Arrests in Louvre heist show power of DNA in solving crimes

The DNA of the accused accomplice was found on the bucket of the truck-mounted mechanical ladder that was used to raise two of the thieves to the second-floor balcony of the Louvre, Beccuau said in an interview with the radio station France Info....

DNR: Visualizing Climate Change Solutions at Point Lookout

Posted by Lexi Leader on Tuesday, October 21, 2025 · Leave a Comment Point Lookout State Park complex manager Dawn Letts tries out one of the University of Maryland virtual reality projects for Point Lookout. (Photo by Catherine Madsen/UMD...

Septic truck causes bridge to collapse on Carroll Road in Baltimore County

The Maryland Department of the Environment will be back at the scene of a bridge collapse that occurred Monday afternoon in northern Baltimore County. A septic truck caused a small bridge to collapse on Monday. The bridge collapsed as a result of...

New Manufacturing Center Coming To Frederick

It will create 125 new, full time, permanent jobs by 2028. Frederick, Md (KM) A new manufacturing center is expected to open in Frederick. Bakery de France already has a facility in the 8400 block of Bakery Way off of Monocacy Boulevard in the...

Climate & Democracy with Jamie Raskin, Heather McGhee and Rebecca Willis

Greg Dalton: This is Climate One. I’m Greg Dalton. Our climate and democratic systems are under threat. Jamie Raskin: We have to save the democracy in order to save the climate and save our species. Greg Dalton: For some people, progress on...

Liberia: UN Women, Rural Women Leaders Rally in Harper — Push for Climate Action, Peace, and Economic Empowerment

HARPER, Maryland County — In a country where women’s voices are often overshadowed, UN Women continues to stand out as one of Liberia’s strongest allies in amplifying the voices of rural women and promoting gender equality. By: Peter P. Toe, Jr.,...

Baltimore County police chief says $3 parking violation put him on Brady list

Baltimore County Police Chief Robert McCullough said the only reason he’s included on a “Brady list” is a decades-old dispute over a $3 parking violation from 1986. Such lists are kept by prosecutors’ offices and local law enforcement agencies to...

Small bridge in Baltimore County collapses after septic truck drives over it

A small bridge in Baltimore County collapsed after a septic truck drove over it Monday evening, according to the fire department. No injuries were reported from the bridge collapse at the intersection of Philpot and Carroll roads near...

Septic truck causes historic bridge to collapse in Baltimore County

A century-old bridge in northern Baltimore County has collapsed under the weight of a septic truck. Baltimore County Fire officials received reports at around 5:20 p.m. that the Carroll Road bridge in Phoenix had collapsed, said Travis Francis, a...

Trump admin. freezes Army Corps of Engineers projects in Baltimore

The Trump administration is freezing $11 billion worth of projects that had already been green-lit by the Army Corps of Engineers in several Democrat-run cities — including Baltimore.Several Maryland lawmakers have criticized the move, calling it...