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Jonathan Hugendubler, the most recent “Jeopardy!” champion and a fixture in Baltimore trivia, was dethroned on the second episode of season 42.

Towson University is partnering with the Baltimore Ravens in a deal aimed at expanding the university’s visibility and student programming and the team’s community engagement.

Baltimore County Councilman Izzy Patoka will introduce an amendment on Tuesday night that would increase minority representation within the County Council’s current redistricting plan.

The deadline to apply for up to $5,000 in relief for the Student Loan Debt Relief Tax Credit for the 2025 tax season is Monday.

Salisbury Police are investigating after a man’s body was found floating in the Wicomico River days after he was reported missing.

State police are investigating the death of a prisoner at the North Branch Correctional Institution in Allegany County over the weekend, officials announced Monday.

William Vanzela, 40, of Reisterstown, was the goalie for the Baltimore Blast for close to 10 years. He won four championships with the professional indoor soccer team.

Mary Jane Lupton, a longtime professor at Morgan State University and feminist scholar, died last month at age 86.

The Trump administration has said its strategy for third-country deportation is meant to be an inconvenience.

As the 144th annual Maryland State Fair closes, we look at how the institution has changed since its early days.

Cayla Harris shares what she’s learned since becoming The Banner’s first obituary writer in October: Obits aren’t inherently sad, we all have more in common than we think, and everyone experiences grief differently.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of protesters marched across Washington, D.C., on Saturday in one of the largest demonstrations against President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of policing in the nation’s capital.

It's the first year for the women to ride in the Maryland Cycling Classic, which entails several loops all within the city.

Saturday started warm and muggy, but that late-summer humidity is expected to act as fuel for storms that will develop Saturday afternoon and evening amid a plethora of events in Baltimore.

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Lia Nigro of Columbia writes that ICE should not leave those it releases stranded and without resources far from their homes.

Outdoor painting is centuries old, and artists in Maryland are still up for the challenge. Baltimore artist Justin Witte is an example.

Prince George’s County Police arrested a 35-year-old man in connection with the death of a 19-year-old woman who went missing in late August.

The Maryland Cycling Classic has business owners upset and closing their doors as the route causes rolling closures for swaths of the city.

About two dozen legislators and Democratic activists gathered in front of Baltimore County’s offices at the historic courthouse in Towson to protest what they consider an unjust redistricting map as well as an unfair process leading to it.