Maria Stainer

A Florida man self-described as a “monster” was charged with first-degree murder after admitting that he fatally disemboweled his girlfriend with his hands Sunday after she uttered her ex-husband’s name twice during sex, police said.

A box truck flipped on its side on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Maryland in a two-vehicle accident Friday morning, blocking the eastbound lanes, Maryland Transportation Authority officials said.

Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, closed its campus and asked students to shelter in place Monday morning on reports that a student may be headed to the college with a firearm. Although the student has not been found, college officials consulted with police and said the campus will reopen Tuesday morning for classes and normal operations.

Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner and an education activist, issued a warning Tuesday to GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump: “The more you speak about Islam and against all Muslims, the more terrorists we create.”

U.S. officials said they removed a former defense minister of El Salvador Friday for his role in human rights violations committed during the 1980-1992 civil war in the Central American nation.

Baltimore police on Monday announced the arrest of “Baltimore’s No. 1 trigger puller,” a gang member who is accused of more than a dozen homicides, the city’s police commissioner said.

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto reiterated to a Spanish-language news show Thursday that his country will not pay for a wall on the border with the U.S., a campaign assertion repeatedly made by Donald Trump, and that Mr. Trump’s positions were a “threat” to the future of Mexico.

Two bodies were found Thursday in a two-story house engulfed with fire in Capitol Heights, Maryland.

At least 20 vehicles were involved in an early morning crash Monday that closed Interstate 270 South in Germantown, Maryland, multiple news outlets are reporting. Three lanes have reopened, but there is a major backup in traffic, so use caution in the area.

A cargo ship smacked into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore Tuesday morning, bringing the bridge down, knocking vehicles into the city’s harbor and sparking a search and rescue effort to find at least seven people who fell in the chilly water.