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Baltimore group fights addiction, homelessness with gentle touch — and soup
Starting last year, community groups like Helping Up Mission began to receive tens of millions of dollars from the city’s opioid restitution fund to combat an ongoing overdose crisis.
Peter Griffin, left, director of outreach and intake for Helping Up Mission, and Keith Dunkley, right, greet Ruben Gregg during a stop with the nonprofit’s Mobile Street Outreach team in Baltimore last month.
Musical about Luigi Mangione makes East Coast debut this summer
A dark comedy about Baltimore County native Luigi Mangione’s incarceration is headed to New York this summer, the creative team behind the show announced.
Luigi The Musical
False spring? Baltimore heads for 70-degree days next week.
Saturday through Wednesday, temperatures are expected to climb from the 60s to mid-70s, which is well above average for early March in the Baltimore area, according to the National Weather Service.
The weather was warm and sunny on February 23, 2023 with a high of seventy-two degrees
Glen Arm man pleads guilty to paying bribes to Baltimore City Hall employee
James Carroll Erny Jr. pleaded guilty Thursday to federal bribery charges for paying a Baltimore City Hall employee in exchange for wiping away city property tax bills.
James Carroll Erny Jr., right, leaves the U.S. District Court in Baltimore on Thursday, joined by his attorney, Tony Garcia.
Baltimore’s top educator wants to end the iPad kid epidemic
Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Sonja Santelises announced strict screen time limits for kindergarten through second grade students.
Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Sonja Santelises announced strict screen time limits for kindergarten through second grade students.
Baltimore leases marina to Harborplace developer for $1 and slice of revenues
MCB paid the city $1 for the arrangement, which calls for Baltimore City to receive 6% of gross revenues, estimated to be $1 million over the life of the lease.
MCB paid $1 for the arrangement, which calls for the city to receive 6% of gross revenues, estimated to be $1 million over the life of the lease.
What to do in Baltimore this weekend, including a literary conference and MLS action
Whether you want to cheer on Lionel Messi in MLS action, hear published authors at the AWP Conference or dance the afternoon away, we’ve got you covered.
ORLANDO, FLORIDA - MARCH 01: Lionel Messi #10 of Inter Miami CF takes a free kick to score his team's fourth goal during the MLS match between Orlando City SC and Inter Miami CF at Inter&Co Stadium on March 01, 2026 in Orlando, Florida. (Photo by Dustin Markland/Getty Images)
All the smokes: How a Hopkins professor’s mushroom trip led to 1,000 paintings of cigarettes
While participating in a Johns Hopkins Medicine study on mushroom-derived psilocybin, and the drug’s ability to curb addictive behaviors, the local writing professor discovered he loves to paint cigarettes.
Artist Nate Brown uses gouache, a technique of painting with opaque watercolors, to create hundreds of paintings of cigarettes and cigarette butts.
ICE wanted to move its Baltimore field office to Elkridge. Now what?
Federal contract records and planning documents about a planned ICE facility in Elkridge offer a window into how immigration authorities are broadening their footprint in Maryland.
Federal contract records and planning documents about a planned ICE facility in Elkridge offer a window into how immigration authorities are broadening their footprint in Maryland.
BGE pausing its pricey Baltimore Peninsula transmission project
Baltimore Gas and Electric Company is pausing a controversial transmission project in South Baltimore. The move follows The Banner’s reporting that the build-out of electric infrastructure to prepare for the redevelopment of Baltimore Peninsula — which is in flux — would cost more than $500 billion.
Under Armour headquarters is seen in the Baltimore Peninsula development in South Baltimore.
Kitty Washburne, former headmistress of The Bryn Mawr Lower School, was an innovative educator
Kitty Washburne, who served for 14 years as headmistress of The Bryn Mawr Lower School, died Feb. 19. She was 97.
Kitty Washburne.
Why this 19-year-old Hopkins student helps record the dying’s last words
A Johns Hopkins student helped launch a project that deploys volunteers to hospices around the country to collect the final words of the dying.
Hospice patient Michael Mason told his life’s story to Vicky Meehan, a volunteer with Letters Without Limits, which turns the words into letters to family.
Maryland spent $1B renovating Baltimore schools. Fixing the heat could add millions.
As many as 100 schools across Maryland use faulty HVAC systems, including those in Montgomery and Baltimore counties.
Jonathan Collins, director of mechanical services and engineering at Baltimore City Public Schools, shows a malfunctioning thermostat, which should keep the heat between 70 and 75 degrees, at Arlington Elementary School.
The bold, brilliant and bizarre writers that make Baltimore a literary town
Baltimore’s complex history, moody weather and idiosyncratic residents have been inspiring writers for hundreds of years.
A ghost sign is seen at the top of the former Stafford Hotel, now The Stafford Apartments. When the building was  constructed in 1894, it was the tallest building on Mount Vernon Place.
Ex-Harford County sheriff’s deputy sentenced to 36 years for sexually exploiting 2 children
Ryan Hall, 51, of Woodbine, who was on the force for 27 years, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Baltimore to two counts of sexual exploitation of children.
Exterior of the Harford County Sheriff’s office in Bel Air, Md. on Monday, April 14, 2025.
Who will pay to prevent Baltimore’s underground fires? Officials say that’s a utility problem.
To finance the improvements, the city will renegotiate deals with the utility companies that use the system.
BGE workers continue working on North Charles St., in Baltimore, Monday, September 30, 2024.
Judge again throws out lawsuit over 2022 fire that killed 3 Baltimore firefighters
In a 30-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Maddox wrote that while the allegations are “tragic and alarming,” they were not enough to support the claims by families of the victims in the South Stricker Street fire in Baltimore.
Baltimore City Fire Lt. Kelsey Sadler, Lt. Paul Butrim and EMT/firefighter Kenny Lacayo were killed while battling a fire at a vacant rowhome on South Stricker Street near West Pratt Street in Mount Clare on Jan. 24, 2022. Meanwhile, EMT/firefighter John McMaster was seriously injured.
Man dies after being struck by MTA train in Baltimore
A man died after being struck by a Maryland Transit Administration train Tuesday afternoon at Shot Tower Station in Baltimore, officials said.
MARCH 3, 2026 - 700 block of East Baltimore Street at Shot Tower Station.
A Baltimore family’s home for 6 decades lost over an $888 tax bill
The Harris family thought they had protected a family home from tax sale in Baltimore City, but an $888 unpaid tax bill sent the property to foreclosure.
The Harris family on the porch of their family home, which was sold in a tax sale without their knowledge. Clockwise from left are Aajah Harris, Natasha Pratt-Harris, Carlos Harris, and Cairo Harris, seated.
72-year-old pedestrian hit and killed by vehicle in Parkville
The man, Peter Ruy, was hit at the intersection of Harford Road and 5th Avenue in Parkville around 8 p.m. on Friday, according to Baltimore County Police.
6/16/22—A Baltimore County police car sits outside of the Public Safety Building and Police Department in Towson.
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