Thirty residents were taken to the hospital and up to seven more were unaccounted for early Thursday after an explosion ripped through an apartment building in Silver Spring, Maryland, officials said.

State officials are investigating an allegation that a British insurance company is conspiring to prevent lead-poisoning victims in Baltimore from recovering damages.

A deadly flash flood in Maryland killed two people and stranded more than 100 over the weekend, leaving behind a scene of devastation in a historic Maryland town that officials say could take months to rebuild.

Over the past two years, General Motors has recalled millions of vehicles over airbag issues, many related to Takata safety devices deploying too forcefully. Now, the company is recalling nearly 290,000 Chevrolet sedans for a different reason: the airbags might not deploy in a crash.

Children playing with fire are to blame for a fire that destroyed an Aberdeen home Tuesday evening and displaced the family that had just moved in, authorities said.

Baltimore police said a driver struck a parked patrol car while he was playing Pokémon Go, narrowly hitting officers standing nearby.

After a long day, it can be nice to come home and grab a frozen meal from the fridge for a quick and easy dinner. If you’ve been stocking up on P.F. Chang’s frozen meals, you might want to double-check they aren’t included in a recently expanded recall of more than 195,000 pounds of frozen dinner product that may contain metal fragments.

Nearly two months after CRF Frozen Foods set off a massive recall of vegetables thought to be contaminated with listeria and linked to at least two deaths and eight illnesses, a second frozen vegetable supplier — National Frozen Food Corp. — has initiated a separate recall over listeria concerns, and many of the recalled products are from the nation’s largest retailers.

Maryland’s top insurance regulator is trying out an old-fashioned approach to cracking down on insurance fraud: publicly shaming offenders.

More than a dozen bus passengers were taken to a hospital Monday afternoon after a Metrobus crashed with another vehicle and then slammed into a tree in Silver Spring, Maryland, officials said. The crash of the J2 bus headed to Montgomery Westfield mall occurred Monday afternoon on East-West Highway at Grubb Road.

A good Samaritan rescued more than 20 people, including schoolchildren, after their charter boat sank Wednesday evening in the Chesapeake Bay, authorities said. The U.S. Coast Guard said it received an alert with a GPS locator and a distress call: "Mayday, mayday, mayday. This is the motor vessel Karen N. We have sunk off of Bloodsworth Island."

Amid a massive frozen foods recall involving millions of packages of fruits and vegetables that were shipped to all 50 U.S. states, Canada and Mexico, authorities who want to stem the listeria-linked illnesses and deaths worry it’ll be difficult to get consumers to dig through their freezers and check for products they may have bought as far back as 2014.

Nine of ten businesses experienced at least one hacking incident in the past year, according to a survey of business risk managers released today by The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company (HSB), part of Munich Re.

A Maryland-based home contractor is at the center of a state investigation, following complaints about faulty and incomplete work on houses, including some customers who had already lost almost all of their possessions in house fires, the News4 I-Team has learned.

CRF Frozen Foods is expanding a recall of frozen organic and traditional fruits and vegetables over possible listeria contamination. The recall includes some 358 products sold under 42 brand names, including items like kale, potatoes, blueberries, strawberries, broccoli and various vegetable medleys, among others.