Maryland prosecutors says a sheriff’s deputy was justified in using deadly force on a man who caused two traffic accidents and attacked the deputy with a piece of wood

The Ferris wheel at a historic amusement park on the Ocean City, Maryland, boardwalk has reopened following a zoning violation

A minor aftershock early Sunday followed a small earthquake that rattled the Baltimore area less than two days earlier, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

A judge in Virginia is weighing whether to throw out criminal charges against a white police officer accused of using excessive force on a disoriented Black man

Gov. Ralph Northam has appointed an attorney to serve as Virginia’s first director of a recently created child-advocacy agency

Police in Maryland say one person is dead and two others are injured following a shooting outside a restaurant at a mall

Two 15-year-old boys from Washington have been charged with kidnapping-related offenses after police say they stole a car with a 2-year-old girl in the back seat

Kumi Yokoyama, a forward for the Washington Spirit of the National Women’s Soccer League, has come out as a transgender man.

Three people have been indicted by a special Virginia grand jury on first-degree murder and more than 80 other charges in connection with the February slaying and dismemberment of a 20-year-old man

Officers fatally shot a man who police say pointed a gun at law enforcement as he emerged from a Virginia convenience store where he held two people hostage