CURRENT EDITION: baltimore (none)🔄 Loading BlueConic...EDITION HISTORY: No changes tracked
🔵 BlueConic: ___🍪 Cookie: ___ UNKNOWN🔗 Query: ___✏️ Composer: ___

Maryland

    A Baltimore nurse comforts dying children — while fighting to stay alive for her sons
    A pediatric hospice nurse, Erin Bull, has guided hundreds of families through the uncertain territory between life and death. After a Stage 4 breast cancer diagnosis, Bull faces her own mortality while caring for her two young sons.
    Erin Bull, center, sits with her sons, Carson, left, and Avery, at a family member’s home in Baldwin.
    18-year-old woman shot and killed in West Baltimore, police say
    An 18-year-old woman was shot and killed Friday afternoon in West Baltimore, according to Baltimore Police.
    Northwest District officers responded shortly after 4 p.m. to a home in the 3100 block of Baker Street for a reported shooting, police said.
    The list of most popular baby names in the US is out — and Olivia and Liam still reign supreme
    Olivia and Liam for a seventh year in a row topped the list of names for babies born in the United States in 2025.
    FILE - The toes of a baby are seen DHR Health, July 29, 2020, in McAllen, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
    Longtime Baltimore County Councilman Wade Kach resigns
    Baltimore County Councilman Wade Kach, who has represented the northernmost reaches of the district for 12 years, has resigned, effective immediately.
    Baltimore County Councilman Wade Kach listens during a council meeting in Towson, Md. Tuesday, January 7, 2025.
    The man behind the city agency that helps move Baltimore forward in more ways than one
    Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks Director Reginald Moore doesn't take his role lightly.
    Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks Director Reginald Moore at Druid Hill Park.
    Hutzell: Speed dating for Congress: How Maryland’s 5th District candidates stand out
    COLUMN | In Maryland’s biggest primary, almost anything seems possible just 32 days from the start of early voting. A look at how candidates are trying to break out of a crowd of Democrats.
    A dozen candidates for Congress in the 5th District attended a forum organized by three political clubs in Prince George's County on May 3, 2026.
    The Banner wins Best News Organization of 2025 at MDDC Press Association awards
    The Banner, a nonprofit, multiplatform news operation serving Greater Baltimore and Maryland, received about 60 awards from the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association, including News Organization of the Year for the third year in a row.
    Banner Chief Philanthropy Officer Sarah Walton, left, and graphic designer Glenford Nuñez pose for a photo with MDDC Press president Dawn Gessel as they're presented with a Best of Show award
    Bob Baffert withdraws presumptive Preakness favorite Crude Velocity
    “It’s a little close for him. He’s been running hard, he’s been running fast, and he’s such a brilliant racehorse that I just think it’d be doing too much too soon with him,” Baffert said.
    Crude Velocity #6 ridden by Florent Geroux wins the Pat Day Mile.
    Baltimore ends its opioid lawsuit after suffering a major loss on appeal
    The decision was a blow to Baltimore City’s legal strategy, with legal observers saying the case was all but dead.
    An aerial view of Baltimore City Hall in Baltimore, Md. on Saturday, July 19, 2025.
    Virginia Supreme Court strikes down Democrats’ redrawn US House maps, giving Republicans a win
    The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday struck down a voter-approved Democratic congressional redistricting plan, delivering another major setback to the party in a nationwide battle against Republicans for an edge in this year’s midterm elections.
    Attorney Matthew Seligman, representing Democratic state legislators, speaks with the media following a hearing on new congressional maps before the state Supreme Court in Richmond, Va. last month.
    Cyberattack on education software impacts Maryland school systems, colleges and students
    A ransomware attack disrupted Canvas, an online platform used by schools and colleges across Maryland to manage grades, assignments and classwork, with hackers claiming access to billions of records.
    The University of Maryland, College Park, is among the schools across the state impacted by the Canvas cyberattack.
    Moore and Ferguson had a deal. Then the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act.
    When Maryland Gov. Wes Moore rolled out dozens of election endorsements Thursday, one name was conspicuously off the list: Senate President Bill Ferguson. A disagreement over redistricting tanked a deal the two Democrats had to endorse each other.
    State Senate President Bill Ferguson and Gov. Wes Moore talk during a bill-signing ceremony in April. Their rocky relationship could be getting rockier, because Moore yanked a planned endorsement of Ferguson as they continue to disagree about redistricting.
    What Marylanders need to know about hantavirus
    Here is what to know about hantavirus, which has killed three people on a Dutch-flagged cruise ship.
    Health workers in protective gear evacuate patients from the MV Hondius cruise ship into an ambulance at a port in Praia, Cape Verde, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)
    Moore hands out key endorsements, specifically in Howard, Baltimore County executive races
    Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is giving his seal of approval to dozens of candidates in the upcoming Democratic primary election.
    Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is offering his stamp of approval to dozens of candidates running for office, many of them in competitive Democratic primary races.
    Popular Maryland folk festival canceled due to ‘funding challenges’
    Salisbury’s Maryland Folk Festival has been canceled this year, with organizers citing funding challenges.
    The Maryland Folk Festival, seen here in 2024, has been cancelled this year.
    State police investigating third Maryland inmate death in just over a week
    A 33-year-old was found dead in his cell at Western Correctional Institution, state police announced, marking the third death of a Maryland prisoner in just over a week.
    Western Correctional Institution (red brick), Cumberland, Maryland.
    Baltimore’s drone boat company just landed another huge contract from the Navy
    BlackSea Technologies is already churning out drone boats for the U.S. Navy. Soon, the firm will build underwater barges that can pump fuel through long hoses, delivering fuel to almost any beach.
    Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025 — BlackSea Global Autonomous Reconnaissance Craft (GARC) naval drones are lined up outside the company’s headquarters in south Baltimore.
    Eat this, not that: Skip the fast food in Howard County
    Howard County is home to dozens of chain restaurants, but instead, there's plenty of mom and pop places to support instead.
    Facci Ristorante’s pappardelle bolognese arrives steaming hot.
    What to do this weekend, including an R&B lovers concert and Mother’s Day events
    Whether you want to have a tea party for Mother's Day, sing along to Dru Hill or attend a book festival, we've got you covered.
    Sisqo of Dru Hill performs for the Blavity House Party Music Festival at Municipal Auditorium on June 14, 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Jason Davis/Getty Images for Blavity Media Group)
    An army of ticks is sending more Marylanders to the ER
    Across the country, emergency department visits for tick bites are up more than 25% from last year, according to federal data. Maryland and other northeastern states are looking like ground zero.
    A mail-in specimen of  a Deer Tick in its nymph stage under a microscope in the Norris Lab at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. After identification it will get sent off to the State Department.  Deer tick are the tick species responsible for spreading Lyme Disease. Despite its name, the bacteria pathogen that causes Lymes comes from mice. 

ER visits from tick bites are at a record high in the U.S., according to the CDC. Those numbers are unclear within Maryland, because there is not enough research funding for experts to conduct surveillance in Maryland on ticks.
    Load More Stories
    Oh no!

    Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes. If the problem persists, please contact customer service at 443-843-0043 or customercare@thebaltimorebanner.com.