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A freight train derailed early Tuesday while crossing an overpass west of Baltimore, spilling tons of coal on top of two 19-year-old women who were sitting on the bridge and killing them, police said.

A Baltimore label that distributed music by the gunman in the Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting says it has removed all of the band's music from its website. Label 56 also issued a statement saying it does not seek attention through "shock value" and has worked to encourage people to take a positive path. The label also asks people not take what the gunman did as honorable or respectable, or think that "we are all like that."

A mother-of-seven who claimed she was one of the winners of the $656 million Mega Millions lottery told NBC News on Thursday that she has lost the ticket. Mirlande Wilson, 37, claims she bought the winning ticket at a 7-Eleven in Baltimore, but so far none of the three winners -- the two others were in Illinois and Kansas -- has actually come forward to claim the money.

A Baltimore woman is claiming one-third of the $656 million Mega Millions jackpot, but colleagues say they're winners too.

The Maryland boy is accused of helping Colleen LaRose plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist. When he allegedly exchanged emails with Colleen LaRose, the woman known as Jihad Jane, the young man was 15 and a good student who spent a lot of time at his computer in a quaint bedroom community outside Baltimore.

After months of searches and appeals to the public, authorities confirmed Thursday that a body found in a northeast Maryland river was a North Carolina teen who went missing while visiting relatives in Baltimore over the Christmas holidays.

Police in Baltimore say an actress who appeared on the HBO series "The Wire" was among dozens of people arrested in an early morning drug raid....

Federal regulators closed Bay National Bank of Baltimore, Md., the 87th U.S. bank to fail this year.

It’s the rumble in Baltimore as House Republicans take on President Obama today.

The plan, which the president is scheduled to announce in a stop at a Baltimore business, would offer a $5000 tax credit for each new worker hired this year, up to $500000 per business. President Obama speaks at a town hall meeting at the University of ...