A catastrophe report has found that the US re/insurance sector is on the hook for more than half of the total economic loss in April resulting from severe convective weather such as thunderstorms and tornados.

Stopping off at this 7-Eleven on Fort Smallwood Road for a quick pack of smokes may have seemed simple enough, but it ended up landing 39-year old Ryan Jenkins in jail in the wee hours of the morning Wednesday.

The National Hurricane Center is making changes to its “cone of uncertainty” based on an improving forecast record. The cone is designed to show people where the center of a storm is likely to head.

Federal authorities say an Eastern Shore man went on a multi-state ATM theft spree, stealing cars and crashing into convenience stores, then tying ropes or chains to the cash machines and dragging them out.

24 people have been displaced and four people were taken to the hospital following a massive condominium fire early Sunday morning.

Two people were rescued and several other residents were displaced after a fire in Harford County early Thursday morning.
Firefighters were called around 2:30 a.m. to a three-story apartment building on Raven Wood Court in Belcamp, officials said.

Maryland State Police in Rockville say an unidentified white tractor-trailer made an unsafe lane change that triggered Monday morning’s crash on southbound I-270 in Germantown.

Tens of thousands of utility workers in the Northeast raced to restore power to more than 1.5 million homes and businesses just days after a powerful and deadly nor’easter caused flooding and wind damage from Virginia to Maine.

Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh today announced that Jamar Marlyn Jones, 31, of Edgewood, pleaded guilty and was sentenced on one count of felony theft scheme having a value of at least $10,000 but less than $100,000.

The thieves didn’t just unlock the doors, they took them. That’s what a Patterson Park couple discovered when they looked out their window and saw their car Sunday morning.

For the second time in two days, an explosion destroyed a Baltimore County home. In Tuesday’s explosion, several other homes were also damaged by the blast, but neighbors say more than anything, they are grateful no one was injured.

Law enforcement agencies broke up a decade-old theft ring that stretched from California to Frederick, Maryland. The thieves used what’s called booster bags, shopping bags with liners to block anti-theft devices.

A lightning strike started a two-alarm fire that heavily damaged a Woodbridge Apartments building along Robinwood Drive near Hagerstown Tuesday night, displacing 74 residents from 37 units.

A recall on papayas has been expanded to three brands, with more recalls possible, after the Food and Drug Administration narrowed in on the source of a salmonella outbreak that has been blamed for at least one death and has sickened over 100 more dating back to May.

Baltimore County fire officials confirm that a 14-year-old girl is dead after a tree fell on her car in Timonium Thursday afternoon.
Arriving officers found a tree on top of a Hyundai Sonata with four people inside.