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Dundalk resident Anthony Edward Connolly, 19, and Westminster residents Evan Michael Barnette, 19, and Jonathan Daniel Colon, 19, are facing misdemeanor charges for second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and other counts related to property destruction and possession of a replica gun.

Anne Arundel County Police chief Amal Awad and U.S. Park Police Chief Jessica Taylor said during a press conference that the chase started at about 12:15 p.m. in southern Anne Arundel County when officers spotted a white BMW suspected of being involved in more than 40 armed robberies in the region this year.

Maryland District Court Judge Marsha Russell declined to release Laury, who will await trial in the Baltimore County Detention Center. Russell deemed Laury a threat to the public based on the charges and the alleged sexual contact with a minor.

Isaacs and her colleagues are frantically contacting rescue organizations to house some of the rabbits as they recover from being spayed and neutered. Once the rabbits are medically cleared, they will be adoptable from the BCAS website.

Victor Martinez-Hernandez, 23, is charged with first- and second-degree murder, first- and second-degree rape, third-degree sex offense and kidnapping. He’s being held without bail in the Harford County Detention Center.

Police said they believe the shooting was accidental, and they do not believe that anyone outside of the home was involved nor did they find “any indications of foul play.”

Anthony Jacob Fritz, 38, was arrested on Friday, June 28. He was released that same day on a $10,000 bond, according to court records.

Here’s what you need to know about traffic if you’re planning to spend July 4 at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor or heading to the beach by way of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and U.S. 50.

The East Baltimore-based church expects to select a firm in the next few weeks and anticipates the work could take up to six months. Pastor Robert Colban's empathetic tone Sunday marked a departure from the more defensive sermons delivered by another pastor in response to a Baltimore Banner series of articles.

An estimated 2,500 people turned out for the third annual event to celebrate Baltimore's trans community. The event included a parade, a block party and a street renaming.

Friends from as far away as Pennsylvania traveled to Maryland to remember 18-year-old Anthony Hinton III, a Glen Burnie High School graduate who was a defensive lineman at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia.

After a report of a suspicious object disrupted a Trans Pride parade in Baltimore on Saturday, law enforcement officials told organizers it had been deemed “nonthreatening,”

Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s use of the phrase “Black jobs” caught the attention and ire of many Black Americans, including Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott.

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Tavon Smith, an MTA light-rail operator, was sentenced to 18 months after pleading guilty to reckless endangerment. Smith in 2022 was operating a light-rail train that struck a vehicle driven by St. Frances Academy football player Lamar Patterson, who was killed.

Melachi Brown, 21, of Windsor Mill, who pleaded guilty to felony manslaughter in a two-vehicle crash that killed six people working in a Baltimore Beltway work zone, was allowed by a judge to serve the remainder of his 18-month jail sentence on home detention.

Old Ellicott City on Saturday will play host to what organizers are calling the nation’s largest free music festival with female-fronted groups Saturday. The festival is expanding into Maryland this year after more than a decade of being held in Delaware.

Despite the record number of attendees at this year’s Baltimore Pride, some critics raised a slew of concerns, ranging from the overall safety of the event to the approach organizers have taken in the overall running of Pride Month offerings.

The protesters, one of whom carried a flag that read “Free Palestine,” were quickly escorted out of the stands. They had unveiled their flags behind home plate.

Katie Pumphrey completed a 24-mile swim from the Bay Bridge to the Inner Harbor on Tuesday. Photographers from The Baltimore Banner were along for the ride (in a support boat).