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Claire’s has been a fixture in American malls for decades. They nearly left thousands of empty storefronts until investment firm Ames Watson, based in Columbia, agreed to buy parts of the retailer.

That billboard is still in downtown Annapolis. But wait. Is that an ad for The Baltimore Banner I see, floating majestically over City Dock? Why yes! Beauty, as I have just been reminded, is in the eye. Sometimes like a poke.

A woman who transitioned out of care at a maximum-security psychiatric hospital in 2017 has been charged in the fatal shooting last year of a clinician who worked at a residential rehabilitation program. Charges are pending in the death of a fellow patient of the program.

Baltimore County Police found three people dead in a Catonsville home on Thursday.

Baltimore comedian Reginald “Reggie” Carroll was gunned down in Southaven, Mississippi, on Aug. 20, local officials said.

The channel into the Port of Baltimore reopened Thursday after Coast Guard officials removed a hatch from a ship explosion.

It’s Labor Day weekend, which for many Marylanders is the last opportunity to travel before summer ends and school starts.

Maryland’s chief medical examiner has ruled the death of a man who had been in Baltimore Police custody as a homicide, in what appears to be the first case with such a ruling since a scathing audit.

Preliminary estimates to build the modern, cable-stayed bridge currently in design to replace the span put the cost between $1.7 billion and $1.9 billion.

Amid what has been billed the nation’s largest round-up of undocumented immigrants, attorneys, advocates, social workers and therapists working with the immigrant community say unsuspecting immigrants are becoming victims of deception and predatory behavior.

Dontae Melton Jr. died in the early hours of June 25, and Maryland Attorney General’s Independent Investigations Division is investigating his death in Baltimore Police's custody.

Baltimore described the award against Hanover Armory as the largest verdict against a gun dealer in American history.

Park Heights is turning the page to a new library.

Juan Yahir Quiroz Manzueta, 21, was taken into custody in New York shortly before 8 a.m. Wednesday, Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler said in a news conference.

An intermittent safety zone is in effect today, as crews with the U.S. Coast Guard work to salvage the hatch of a ship that was blown off in an explosion earlier this month.

The Baltimore Oyster Partnership plans to expand oyster restoration efforts in Baltimore Harbor and the Patapsco River.

Fall is on its way, and Baltimore County’s farms and outdoor emporiums have some delightful ways to celebrate cooler temperatures. Here are seven things to do around the area for the week ending Wednesday, Sept. 3.

Baltimore County paid $100,000 to settle litigation that its inspector general initiated against a former employee, according to several County Council members

Wednesday is the first day of school at Westernport Elementary. On May 13, a flood forced the school to evacuate by boat and prompted Gov. Wes Moore to declare a state of emergency.

The listing for the Baltimore County property went viral after getting posted on Zillow Gone Wild.