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During a career spanning four decades, Baltimore police Officer Ron Starr says, he never really considered leaving the department's Southeastern District and moving up the chain of command.

Baltimore viewers opened their hearts and their wallets to give generously to the disaster victims in Oklahoma.

This all happened at Saint Margaret Middle School, which is run by the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

As the summer travel season starts this weekend, motorists can expect higher gasoline taxes, and higher tolls starting July 1. The 4-cent-a-gallon increase in gasoline taxes will take effect, as part of the transportation funding bill Governor Martin O'Malley signed into law last week.

Someone's been making off with the big industrial batteries that provide backup power at traffic signals in Baltimore, and now the thefts are being investigated by the city inspector general's office, which looks into allegations of waste, fraud and abuse in municipal government.

A British soldier was hacked to death by two men shouting Islamic slogans in a south London street on Wednesday, in what the government said appeared to be a terrorist attack.

The Central Florida man who was shot and killed by an FBI agent early Wednesday was being questioned about a 2011 triple-slaying in Massachusetts and about his relationship with the Boston Marathon bombings suspects, federal law enforcement officials told The Central Florida man who was shot and killed by an FBI agent early Wednesday was being ... (more)

Two people were seriously injured after a fire was intentionally set in a Family Dollar store in East Baltimore on Wednesday morning, Baltimore fire officials said.

The long white van veered out of control before buckling, shattering its windows, flipping four times and ejecting nine of its 11 passengers along a grass-lined interstate in Illinois on Monday morning - leaving five Baltimore men dead and several others badly injured.

Seven people were shot - at least one fatally - in Baltimore between Tuesday afternoon and early Wednesday morning, with the violence stretching from Brooklyn in the south to Gwynn Oak in the northwest and Darley Park in the east.

Move over M&T, BB&T, SunTrust and Bank of America. MECU wants to join the ranks of financial institutions that have their names on buildings in downtown Baltimore.

"For me, the hardest thing was when I put the uniform on," says Angela Rypien, quarterback for the Baltimore Charm.

Frank Riemer, an employee of Baltimore's Department of Public Works, is getting married on the beach in Ocean City this August.

Returning veterans are now facing a new enemy at home--long wait times for their disability claims.

Anne Arundel County police arrested a Brooklyn Park man in a stabbing that sent the victim to Shock Trauma on May 13.

A Baltimore jury convicted a man of robbing, then killing his mentor in a youth program and shooting another man who survived, the State's Attorney's Office said.

Researchers have developed an experimental iPhone application, or app, designed to help emergency medical technicians diagnose a particularly deadly form of heart attack and send that information quickly to waiting hospital surgical teams.

On Monday, bags of summer reading books will be handed out to Head Start students while volunteers read stories to the children.

Keur Khaleyi , is from the Senegalese language of Wolof and means house of the children or children.

Steve Frazer from Reisterstown was looking for the recipe for the chocolate chip cake that used to be sold at Miller's Delicatessen in Northwest Baltimore in the 1970s.