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Baltimore City Schools staff came to work on Sunday, trying to find students who aren’t showing up to class. The EPA is making more than $140 million available to help solve the city’s water woes. A meeting scheduled for this week on the new Johns Hopkins police force has been canceled. Morgan State is taking the lead in helping prepare traditionally under-represented students to study the environment. And with so many jobs to fill, one nonprofit is encouraging businesses to think outside the box.

An FDA panel votes in favor of Pfizer booster shots for those 65 and older, but deals a blow to the Biden administration’s hopes for wider distribution. Faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health provide some answers to how we can get through this latest pandemic surge. The superintendent of Baltimore County schools pleads for help to deal with a school bus shortage that is rippling across the nation. And our City beat reporter digs into the history of The Highway to Nowhere and the intersection of race and infrastructure.

To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in 1616, the Folger Library and the National Endowment for the Humanities are bringing the First…

On this month's episode of Your Child's Brain, long covid in children is discussed.

Music can inspire hearts and minds. But how do music--and rhythm-based therapies--address symptoms of Parkinson's disease … stroke … or autism? Colleagues at the Johns Hopkins ‘Center for Music and Medicine’ talk about the healing power of music.

We go On the Record with a conversation about the thousands of essays and poems housed in the American Prison Writing Archive, now held at Johns Hopkins University. The collection gives a platform for people who were and are incarcerated to share their experiences.

John B. Chessare, The President and CEO of Baltimore's GBMC HealthCare, joins Midday to discuss treatment for some of the more devastating illnesses in America.

The orthopedic surgeon has some timely tips for runners ahead of this weekend's Baltimore Running Festival.

With Democratic leader Harry Reid's victory in Nevada, Republican hopes for taking over the Senate have faded — even as Reid's leadership will be put to the test in a more narrowly divided Senate with a handful of Tea Party members. Republicans have picked up six seats — in Indiana, Illinois, Arkansas, North Dakota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Critic Monica Castillo says this Halloween sequel takes as its true subject the lingering effects of the trauma Jamie Lee Curtis' character experienced in the 1978 original. (Also there's stabbing.)

In King's latest novel, a high-school teacher travels back in time to try to stop an assassination that altered the course of American history. "11/22/63 was our 9/11," says King, who first thought of the idea for the book on the anniversary of President Kennedy's death in 1971.

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The singer, songwriter and guitarist underwent surgeries in 1996 and 2013 that affected his throat and voice. He likes his voice better now: "It dropped down lower and feels friendlier."

This fall, ABC will offer its most ethnically diverse slate of new shows in recent memory. But getting people to talk freely about why that's happened is still difficult.

Senate Republicans say they will release a draft of their legislation on Thursday, with a vote likely next week.

In this third episode of Your Child's Brain, a podcast series about the mysteries of the child’s developing brain, we discuss mental health and the impact on children and teenagers.

Midday on Ethics: Tom speaks with Dr. Jeff Kahn of the Johns Hopkins Bermin Institute of Bioethics about problems posed by a new organ retrieval process.

"Why John Harbaugh's visit to the White House could be problematical”

Residents in West Baltimore and parts of Baltimore County have been given the green light to consume their tap water again. Construction has begun on a multi-million dollar complex in the city that aims to entice emergency responders to live where they work. A gun scare and a death in city and county schools have left students grief stricken at one…and on edge at another. Johns Hopkins health system warns they may stop accepting plans from one of the nation’s biggest insurers and what’s the human and dollar cost of Baltimore’s vacant housing? A new report has some data.

A judge has ruled that Maryland officials can start counting mail-in ballots ahead of election day. A Baltimore county employee has been busted for using the county’s computer system to run a private business. A town hall meeting to discuss a private police force for Johns Hopkins University was brought to an abrupt end by protestors last night. I’ll have more headlines plus, the Republican running for Baltimore County Executive is promising a revolutionary change in government if he’s elected.