Anne Arundel County

The Baltimore Banner/VSN Week 1 Baseball & Softball Top 15

Archbishop Spalding holds down the top spot in both our baseball and softball polls

VSN Staff

Mar 28, 2023

The Baltimore Banner/VSN Boys & Girls Week 2 Lacrosse Top 15

John Carroll enters the boys poll at No. 15; Spalding moves to No. 2 in girls poll while Maryvale Prep climbs four spots to No. 4; Dulaney and Westminster also enter girls rankings

VSN Staff

Mar 27, 2023

Federal judge tosses challenge to suicide prevention pamphlets in Anne Arundel gun shops. This idea will spread.

Anne Arundel was the first county in Maryland to put suicide prevention pamphlets in gun shops. On Tuesday, a federal judge threw out a First Amendment challenge to the law from a gun rights group.

Rick Hutzell

Mar 24, 2023

A federal judge has ruled a pamphlet developed by Anne Arundel County, along with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the National Shooting Sports Foundation, can be required at businesses that sell guns or ammunition.

The Annapolis Film Festival is about more than movies

The festival, which will show about 70 eclectic shorts and features over four days, is as much about community as it is about film.

Leslie Gray Streeter

Mar 23, 2023

Patti White and Lee Anderson, co-founders of the Annapolis Film Festival pose for a portrait outside their office in Annapolis, Tuesday, March 21, 2023.

No. 9 Severna Park overpowers 11th-ranked Glenelg in boys lacrosse public school opener

Falcons soar to an 8-0 advantage before Gladiators fight back in third quarter; Bredeck and Sullivan score three goals each for six-time defending state champions

Nelson Coffin

Mar 22, 2023

Severna Park junior attackman Kenny Brazil shows what riding is all about as he checks Glenelg sophomore goalie Zach Coughlin while Falcon sophomore midfielder Jack Fish arrives on the scene. No. 9 Severna Park won the inter-county battle, 11-3, over the Gladiators.

2022-23 Baltimore Banner/VSN Girls Basketball Player of the Year: Amourie Porter, Glen Burnie

Gophers’ star spurned private school offers to lead Glen Burnie to a state championship, a goal she achieved earlier this month

Katherine Dunn

Mar 21, 2023

Glen Burnie's Amourie Porter, right, and Churchill's Chelsea Calkins vie for a loose ball during the Class 4A state girls basketball final in College Park on Friday, March 10, 2023.

The Baltimore Banner/VSN Boys & Girls Week 1 Lacrosse Top 15

VSN Staff

Mar 20, 2023

The equinox arrives at 5:24 p.m. today. But it’s already spring in Annapolis.

Annapolis marks the start of spring in its own ways, even if nobody tells the calendar.

Rick Hutzell

Mar 20, 2023

Gov. Wes Moore danced through part of the Annapolis St. Patrick's Parade on March 5.

You can swim the Irish Sea at the Forty Foot. Annapolis could have something like it.

On a trip to Ireland, there’s a spot where literature and taking to the water meet. Maybe there’s a place for this at home.

Rick Hutzell

Mar 17, 2023

Steps carved into the rock at The Forty Foot lead down to a swimming hole on the Irish Sea in Sandycove, Ireland.

The Baltimore area’s highest-rated schools on the Maryland School Report Card

Use these searchable tables to compare the highest- and lowest-performing schools in the Baltimore region.

Rachel Cieri Mull and Ryan Little

Mar 16, 2023

A student walks past lockers in the hallway outside Damien Ford’s Baltimore School for The Arts classroom on Dec. 21, 2022. Ford teaches an African American Literature class where shows his students comparisons between Lauryn Hill lyrics and the work of Zora Neal Hurston.

Slice showdown: Who has the best pizza in Baltimore?

Who has the best slice in town? Vote for your favorite in The Baltimore Banner’s Slice Showdown pizza bracket.

Baltimore Banner staff

Mar 14, 2023

McDonogh’s deep talent gives it the nod as Baltimore’s No. 1 boys lacrosse team

The Baltimore Banner/Varsity Sports Network boys lacrosse preseason Top 15 preview

Nelson Coffin

Mar 14, 2023

In the elite MIAA A Conference, little separates the top lacrosse team from the bottom, defending champion McDonogh, led by coach Andy Hilgartner (center) appears to have the pieces to once again top a league with a bevy of national powers.

St. Paul’s School remains No. 1; Gators aiming for an IAAM A Conference lacrosse three-peat

The Baltimore Banner/Varsity Sports Network girls lacrosse preseason Top 15 preview

Katherine Dunn

Mar 14, 2023

After a second straight No. 1 ranking by Varsity Sports Network and the top ranking nationally by Inside Lacrosse, the St. Paul's School for Girls lacrosse team enters 2023 as the team to beat once again.

National Football Foundation Scholar Athlete Awards set to return to in-person format

Seventy scholar athletes to be honored at Martin’s West on March 15th with $20,000 in scholarship money going to regional winners; top area high school and college football teams also to be recognized

Gary Adornato

Mar 14, 2023

The 60th annual editor of the Baltimore Chapter of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Scholar Athlete Awards return to an in-person format for the first time since the pandemic, on March 15th at Martin's West.

With killers like these among us, maybe there is such a thing as evil

I don’t believe you can see evil in someone’s face. I’m not even sure it exists. It’s an old-fashioned concept, one you don’t hear much discussed anymore. Is Alex Murdaugh evil? Was Forrest Clyde Williams III?

Rick Hutzell

Mar 14, 2023

Tom Sobocinski, FBI special agent in charge, and Anne Arundel County Police Chief Amal Awad discuss DNA findings on March 10. Test results identified the man who killed Pamela Lynn Conyers in 1970.

Sexual assault reports increase at Naval Academy, other military colleges

Of 155 students reporting assaults during the 2022 school year, students at the U.S. Naval Academy reported 61 — nearly double the school’s total for the previous year.

Lolita C. Baldor

Mar 10, 2023