Baltimore City

This is the story of the Key Bridge disaster as told by people who lived it. The Banner spoke to 25 rescue workers, eyewitnesses, victims' relatives and more to compile a chronology of events on March 26.

What we know six months after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse — and what will surface in the years to come.

The Maryland Department of the Environment and Fleischmann’s Vinegar Company have reached a $1.1 million settlement over water pollution violations from the company’s Baltimore facility, MDE officials announced Wednesday.

Greater Grace officials announced that they had selected an evangelical nonprofit, GRACE, to lead an independent investigation of sexual abuse in the church.

The Pratt Free Market grocery store in the Highlandtown library is a pilot project for addressing citywide barriers to food access by offering goods at no cost.

Sarah Beth Clendaniel was arrested in February 2023 after corresponding for months with a government source to plot the attack.

Tiffany Knupp will serve a year of unsupervised probation, pay $6,500 restitution and resign from the foundation.

With a star chef and a shoutout from Keith Lee, Jerk at Nite has a lot going for it. But opening a restaurant in downtown Baltimore has its own uphill battles.

Facing lien petitions, contract disputes and a foreclosure, the Baltimore real estate company has reached a tipping point.

Baltimore County is buying land for a waterfront park less than a mile from County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr.’s Millers Island home. Some have questioned whether the county followed the protocol that it used for other proposed park acquisitions.

“There’s no reasonable explanation that I can imagine that would explain this amount in a city the size of Baltimore,” a former DEA agent testified Tuesday.

Medium Rare is “killing it everywhere else,” the restaurant’s owner said, but the location in Hampden’s Rotunda had “massive” losses.

Plus, Samuel Basallo ranked No. 1 and Jordan Westburg’s true impact.

Syrian fine-dining spot Ammoora was lauded by the New York Times as a “revelation” in its best restaurants list, and the only one from Maryland to make the cut.

The state alleges that the government itself and the people of Maryland have suffered massive losses from the bridge collapse, and that it was caused by negligence and shortcuts by the Dali’s crew, owner and manager.

Sailors have long thought of the Key Bridge as a beacon, a waypoint signaling the entry to or exit from Baltimore. It remains so, even as wreckage.

Baltimore Youth Kinetic Energy Collective, or BYKE for short, is a local nonprofit that teaches young people in the city to repair bikes, but they say they are much more than a repair shop.

Neither the governor nor attorney general offered details on their announcement, but it comes just before a deadline to file legal claims against the ship's owner and operator.

Black fraternities and sororities, professional social groups and other organizations have helped establish an infrastructure of support for Black candidates.

Reed Diamond, who played Detective Mike Kellerman, talks about his love of the show ‘Homicide,’ now streaming on Peacock, and of Baltimore itself.