After losing her home, Baltimore woman joins federal lawsuit challenging tax sale
Filed this past July, the lawsuit argues that the tax sale system in Baltimore is unconstitutional.
Bonita Anderson is interviewed inside her home in Baltimore, Md. on Wednesday, December 11, 2024. Anderson is one of many Baltimore residents at risk of losing their homes due to tax sale because of city errors.
Maryland schools need more CRT. It’s not what you think it is.
A state-ordered review of reading instruction found most places lacked this strategy for engaging students.
BALTIMORE, MD - DECEMBER 5, 2024: Kindergarten students pay attention to their teacher during an English Language Arts class in KIPP Baltimore on December 5, 2024.
Locally made mitts keep runners toasty in winter months
Susan Clayton, a longtime runner, used to head back to her car with cold hands. Most running gloves on the market didn't meet her needs, so she made her own and launched WhitePaws RunMitts along the way.
Susan Clayton of WhitePaws Runmitts with her mittens on December 20, 2024 outside of the factory they are made in at Nightmare Graphics. WhitePaws Runmitts is Baltimore-based and -made company that makes running mitts to keep runners' hands warm in the winter and cold mornings and nights.
Here are the Maryland laws that kick in for the new year
More than a dozen laws take effect in January in Maryland, from health insurance coverage changes to increased fines for speeding in work zones.
Maryland lawmakers will head into the 2025 legislative session in January facing a tough budget situation.
Baltimore Police arrest 5, including 3 boys, in armed carjacking of woman
Baltimore City Police over the weekend arrested five people, including a 9-year-old boy, stemming from a carjacking in which a woman was dragged from her car at a stop sign, authorities said.
While he fights to prove his innocence, Adnan Syed files motion to reduce sentence
Syed, now 43, is awaiting a new hearing on a motion to throw out his conviction in the killing of Hae Min Lee, his ex-girlfriend and classmate at Woodlawn High School.
Adnan Syed and mother Shamim Syed  speak to the press after the Maryland Supreme Court hearing on Thursday to hear oral argument in the Adnan Syed case.
Maryland weather: Bitter cold before wintry mix on Tuesday
A Canadian cold front will approach the region on Tuesday, and a winter weather advisory has been issued for most of Maryland.
The National Weather Service has issued winter weather advisories for the areas in purple for freezing rain on Tuesday.
Maryland must turn over contested Baltimore jail records, loses medical monitor fight
Maryland has spent nearly half a million dollars on a private law firm to try and exit a decades-old lawsuit. So far, it has little to show for it.
The ACLU is further scrutinizing records from the Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center’s inpatient mental health unit, which became notorious in recent years for what the advocacy groups described as “extremely harsh living conditions.”
Why ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ is actually a holiday hellscape
Was Rudolph right to guide Santa's sleigh in “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”? Or should he have told the Jolly Old Elf to stick it? An investigation.
Did the reindeers really love “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” as they shouted out with glee?
‘Invisible’ but essential: Baltimore’s Black immigrants
And, although there has been an exodus of Black residents from Baltimore in the past decade, its foreign-born Black population has continued to grow.
Sunny Side Café co-owner Kristian Knight-Miller behind the counter at her stall in Lexington Market.
How Baltimore County became a hidden world of video game companies
Sid Meier, the gaming guru behind the ‘Civilization’ series, lit a spark in generations of developers who have stayed local.
Hannah Hidalgo scores 33 as No. 3 Notre Dame defeats Loyola Maryland 97-54
Laura Salmeron scored 23 points to lead Loyola Marymount.
Baltimore residents fend off ‘porch pirates’ as holiday packages pour in
With more than 120 million packages stolen last year, Baltimoreans try to outsmart thieves with security cameras and package drop boxes.
Amazon packages on the front steps of a Baltimore home, Tuesday, December 17, 2024.
Media executive Robert Ingram Jr. was a champion for diversity and inclusion
Robert “Bob” Ingram Jr., an esteemed media executive who worked across disciplines to champion diversity, equity and inclusion, died on Dec. 10 of a subdural hemorrhage. He was 69.
Robert Ingram Jr.
They entered treatment. Drugs, overdoses and deaths followed.
Baltimore addiction programs draw patients with free housing while collecting millions. Some say one program—PHA Healthcare—offered little help.
Amanda Vlakos was found dead of an overdose in September while enrolled in PHA Healthcare, a recovery program that offered free housing.
Slutty Vegan comes to town: ‘Welcome home, baby girl!’
The Slutty Vegan's opening in the Baltimore Peninsula attracted a crowd of food enthusiasts on Saturday.
Customers lined up inside after waiting for hours in the cold.
The best space photos from the year? Ask the folks behind the James Webb telescope
The folks at the Space Telescope Science Institute arguably know the James Webb Space Telescope best — so we asked them for their favorite images or discoveries from the last year.
In this image of the Serpens Nebula from the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers found a grouping of aligned protostellar outflows within one small region (the top left corner). In the Webb image, these jets are signified by bright clumpy streaks that appear red, which are shockwaves from the jet hitting surrounding gas and dust.

The Serpens Nebula, located 1,300 light-years from Earth, is home to a particularly dense cluster of newly forming stars (~100,000 years old), some of which will eventually grow to the mass of our Sun.
The Peale’s new leader plans to bring innovation to the historic museum
The Peale, the first purpose-built museum in America, announced a new executive director ready to take the storied museum into the future.
The Peale Center is located on Holliday Street and operates from 3-7 on Thursday and Friday and 10-4 on Saturday and Sunday.
H. Furlong Baldwin, who led Mercantile banks, was a man of ‘uncommon integrity’
H. Furlong Baldwin, who led Baltimore’s Mercantile-Safe Deposit and Trust Co. for more than two decades, died Dec. 7 from complications of multiple myeloma. He was 92.
H. Furlong Baldwin in 1991 in Lower Chesapeake.
3 Baltimore courthouses test positive for Legionella bacteria
Three more court buildings in Baltimore have tested positive for the bacteria that can cause Legionnaires’ disease, officials announced Friday.
Baltimore City District (People's) Courthouse at 501 E. Fayette Street
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