Maryland agency to improve access to benefits for people with disabilities
The settlement agreement requires DHS to take steps to ensure people in Maryland with disabilities receive fair access to public benefits, including the state’s temporary cash assistance program.
Illustration of three paper chains cut out of personal documents, with links missing from each paper chain.
Letter: Why should polluters profit while communities like Curtis Bay suffer?
A reader says the CSX coal terminal is a stark example of how powerful industries disproportionately affect underserved communities like Curtis Bay.
Multiple homes near the CSX Plant in Dundalk were seen decorated with “No Coal In Curtis Bay” signs on July 31, 2024.
Baltimore horror club embraces the scary and weird. Around here, it fits right in.
A Baltimore horror movie club, with its screenings, trivia nights and potlucks, creates community and builds on the sense of safety the genre can provide.
A Bmore Horror Club screening of “WNUF Halloween Special” in September 2024.
Rachel Yaffe, a social media influencer who shared her life with cancer, dies at 27
Lutherville native Rachel Yaffe used TikTok to inspire others to live a positive, healthy lifestyle and chronicled living with a fatal disease. She died on Oct. 11 from a rare liver cancer at age 27.
Rachel Yaffe in a photo posted to her Instagram page in September 2022.
Man on trial in mass shooting at Edmondson Village Shopping Center
Daaon Spears, 18, of Edmondson Village, is charged with first-degree murder and related offenses in the mass shooting in the Edmondson Village Shopping Center in Baltimore on Jan. 4, 2023. At the time, he was 16.
One person has died and four others were injured in a mass shooting at the Edmondson Village shopping center Wednesday morning.
BOPA v. Baltimore: Everything you need to know about the arts fight
If you haven’t been glued to the saga, here’s a crash course on the origins of the dispute and what it could mean for some of Baltimore’s most beloved festivals.
Attendees visit the Black Burner Project exhibit by Erin Douglas at Artscape.
Baltimore Police obtain warrant for man seen in viral Ravens-Commanders attack
John Callis, 24, of Baltimore, is wanted on one count of first-degree assault and three counts of second-degree assault, Baltimore Police reported on Thursday.
Screenshot from video of fight between Ravens and Commanders fans.
What to do this weekend, from ‘Our Town’ to Baltimore’s Running Festival
Whether you want to check out Disney on Ice, run in (or watch) a marathon or indulge in a night of indie horror movies, we’ve got you covered.
Exterior of the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall on 2/5/23.
Columbia barbershop marks 100 years of haircuts — and mentoring Black barbers
Warren’s Barbershop in Columbia is celebrating 100 years in business. Longtime owner Julius Warren Jr., 86, retired about a decade ago, but the shop remains family-owned and its legacy continues with the younger Black barbers he mentored.
David Clark puts a cape over a customer before a haircut at Warren’s Barbershop in Columbia. Warren's, the first Black-owned barbershop in Howard County, recently celebrated 100 years in business.
Auto insurance in Maryland is expensive. But just how bad is it?
Two recent reports offer confirming — or contradictory — senses of just how expensive car insurance is in Maryland right now.
Photo illustration of white sedan driving toward the left of the image against a dark purple background. The rear of the car is cut out, and a pile of one hundred dollar bills fills the back silhouette of the car. One hundred dollar bills fly away from the rear of the car.
Baltimore cancels contract with BOPA after weeks of turmoil
BOPA CEO Rachel Graham said the arts council is still planning to put on a fireworks display for New Year’s Eve and to organize a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade.
BOPA’s board voted Wednesday to lay off an undisclosed number of staff.
Former chef of Duck Duck Goose to develop menu at Columbia restaurant
Chef Ashish Alfred, formerly of Duck Duck Goose and Osteria Pirata in Fells Point, is taking on a new start redesigning the menu of The Walrus Oyster & Ale House, a Howard County neighborhood pub.
New York, NY - December 18, 2018: Chef Ashish Alfred of Duck Duck Goose and George's Chophouse in Maryland presents dinner at the James Beard House in Greenwich Village.
Couple killed in 5-alarm fire were part of Hampden’s ‘heart and soul’
Kathy and Matthew Schmale, both 63, died early Tuesday in a five-alarm fire that affected at least eight homes on Keswick Road in Hampden, family said.
Matthew and Kathy Schmale on their wedding day, June 12, 1983.
Maryland prisoner airlifted to hospital after fire at Western Correctional Institution
That prisoner was airlifted Tuesday night by Maryland State Police to a nearby hospital “for treatment of his injuries.”
Satellite imagery of the Western Correction Institution in Cumberland. Lester DeShazor alleged that correctional officers at the prison targeted him for retaliation.
A Howard County man talked about joining ISIS. Those chats landed him in jail on a terrorism charge.
The affidavit lays out a series of chats with Teekaye discussing joining various branches of the Islamic State in Africa and, at one point, plotting to attack Jews and supporters of Israel living in Maryland.
In a series of instagram posts, including one that was blurred on original posting, the FBI identifies Michael Sam Teekaye  Jr. posting from a gun range in Severn. The black bars were added in the affidavit.
Judge rejects Marilyn Mosby’s request to replace home detention with curfew
Mosby, 44, a Democrat who served two terms as Baltimore state’s attorney from 2015-2023, argued the change was necessary because of a new job.
Former Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby thanks supporters outside of the federal courthouse in Greenbelt. Mosby was sentenced earlier on May 23, 2024, to three years of probation, including a year of house arrest, for fraud and perjury.
The Dish: And the winner of Baltimore’s Italian sub war is ...
Readers of The Baltimore Banner voted Di Pasquale’s the winner of best Italian sub in a series of matchups that pitted 16 local favorites against one another.
A freshly made "Real Italian" by Domenico DiPasquale on October 11, 2024.
Want a gym membership? The sheriff’s office can help
Under Sheriff Sam Cogen, the law enforcement division has started offering memberships to a private gym for 100 employees.
6/28/22—the exterior of the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Courthouse.
Maryland’s growing multiracial voters are changing the politics of identity
There are now around 534,000 people who identify as multiracial in the state and multiracial adults now make up about 7% of Maryland’s electorate.
SANDY SPRING, MARYLAND - OCTOBER 27: Voters fill out and cast their ballots at the early voting location in the ballroom of the Sandy Spring Volunteer Fire Station on October 27, 2022 in Sandy Spring, Maryland. Including the site in Sandy Spring, Montgomery County opened 14 early voting sites on Thursday that will remain open through November 3. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
How foreign relatives got to Baltimore so quickly after the Key Bridge collapse
After the Key Bridge fell, the immigrant advocacy group CASA and Esperanza Center sprang into action, helping at least 34 family members who live overseas secure permission to travel to the U.S. and book their flights.
Construction workers honored the Key Bridge victims during a press conference in March at CASA's Baltimore worker center.
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