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Tropical Storm Melissa neared hurricane strength Saturday and was expected to rapidly intensify this weekend, as forecasters warned of massive rainfall and life-threatening flooding and landslides in the northern Caribbean.

The Port to Fort race, which was supposed to run through Fort McHenry, had to change its route at the last minute because the government shutdown has closed the national monument.

Isabel Mercedes Cumming's social media posts constituted “an act of interference” and an endorsement, regardless of the intent behind them, the union panel ruled.

Built in 2023, the traditional home is filled with gracious interiors, designer finishes and luxurious updates.

Highs area-wide peak around 60° for both Saturday and Sunday afternoons. On average, you’d expect high temperatures in the mid-60s heading into Halloween.

The U.S. Secret Service, in collaboration with local law enforcement, spent time in and around Baltimore, checking over 3,000 card readers, gas station pumps and ATMs looking for illegal skimming devices.

Poolesville High School named its stadium after Howard Lyles, a longtime coach and one of the first black students to integrate the school.

Multiple people were shot during what was supposed to be a celebration near the campus of Howard University in D.C., on Friday evening.

Thomas Lieb, a longtime communications professor at Towson University, died of cancer this month. Friends, family and former students remember him as passionate, hardworking and kind.

This is the sixth year that the Downtown Partnership has worked with other groups to bring gigantic pumpkins to downtown Annapolis, where they are carved by local artists.

The Ravens will face the Bears on Sunday in Baltimore. Here are game predictions from The Banner’s sports staff and a guest picker.

One in nine Marylanders puts food on the table with the help of SNAP, but with benefits soon running out as a federal government shutdown drags on, Gov. Wes Moore is not planning to tap state money to keep the program running.

Harford County officers were called to respond to an alligator found in the parking lot of an exotic pet store in Bel Air Thursday night. The female alligator was housed overnight at Ryan’s Reptile Rescue and Rehoming.

County Executive Marc Elrich and County Council Vice President Will Jawando are on a 13-day trade mission to China and Japan to promote the county and to take part in a sister cities conference.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will temporarily bring all its furloughed employees back to work starting Monday.

A jury convicted Markus Dowdy in February of second-degree murder, first-degree assault, the use of a firearm in a violent crime, illegal possession of a firearm and reckless endangerment, according to the statement.

Alaska Airlines is adding a new transcontinental flight to its portfolio next Spring with daily flights between Baltimore and Portland, Oregon.

The Ravens are 4-12 in games Lamar Jackson has not started since he took over in Baltimore in 2018.

Justin Reeves, 28, of Remington, is facing three counts of first-degree arson, along with one count of malicious burning and reckless endangerment. His trial is set for February.

A mother has raised more than $29,000 for her son's medical bills after the middle schooler was hit in the head by a metal object at Odessa Shannon Middle School in Silver Spring last week.