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On Sept. 30, people will have a chance to encounter the spectral residents of The Lord Baltimore Hotel as a team of professional spirit seekers arrives for National Ghost Hunting Day.

With the start of National Hispanic Heritage Month on Friday, The Baltimore Banner asked Maryland-based Latinos a variety of questions.

Baltimore County police said 57-year-old Mary Beth Green was struck in a crosswalk by a pickup truck, taken to a hospital and pronounced dead shortly afterward. Crash unit detectives were investigating.

The showers and possible thunderstorms forecast for the Baltimore area Sunday are expected to pass through as the Orioles play a pivotal game and local festivals conclude.

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Full testimony of Krystal Gonzalez, the mother of Aaliyah Gonzalez, one of two young people killed at the annual Brooklyn Day cookout that erupted into an exchange of gunfire after hours of growing tensions at a party where several people flashed weapons but police chose not to intervene. Her powerful testimony ground the hearing to a halt.

Baltimore Banners, a volunteer-run ice hockey team, was founded in 2003 and aims to teach on- and off-ice skills to at-risk youth in East Baltimore.

A roundup of recent discoveries and images from the James Webb Space Telescope.

Bishme Cromartie was one of three Marylanders with “Project Runway” ties who participated in the country’s most iconic fashion event, New York Fashion Week, in September 2023.

The Kroger Co. says it will sell 10 Harris Teeter stores in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., ahead of a merger with Albertsons Companies Inc.

A shooting incident near a popular Hampden skate park ended with a chaotic arrest Monday afternoon as dozens of students departing a nearby high school looked on.

Eleven children and an adult were injured in a crash involving a bus Monday morning in Bel Air, Maryland State Police said.

After years of the nonprofit that runs the state fair “living paycheck to paycheck,” Brewster said, he organized volunteers in fundraising campaigns and advocated in the State House to raise more than $10 million.

Vendors in stalls on Montford sold blintzes, jewelry, trinkets and shots of a honey liqueur called medivka. Cooks served stuffed cabbage, pierogis, potato pancakes and borscht. Although the overtone was quaint and festive, thoughts of the war in Ukraine were present.

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Officers responded around 7 p.m. to the intersection of North Pulaski and Presstman streets. Police said the girl had been shot in the 2100 block of Presstman Street.

The shooting happened on the same block of the Bywater neighborhood where, on July 27, another fatal shooting occurred.

The Baltimore native defeated designers Laurence Basse and Brittany Allen in the finale of TV's "Project Runway All Stars.” Cromartie dedicated the season to his older sister, Chimere Faye Didley, who died of cancer last year.

Dozens of local drivers are working their way through a hiring pipeline, Superintendent Michael Martirano told board of education members.

Springsteen said he is being treated for symptoms of peptic ulcer disease and the decision of his medical advisors is that he should postpone the shows, according to a statement posted to his social media accounts.