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A local nurse and her boyfriend engaged in a heroic act mid-flight on their way back home to Baltimore from a vacation in the Bahamas.

More than 230 contestants from all 50 states, plus Ghana, Guam, Germany and elsewhere, competed at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center this week.

Pennsylvania-based Erie Insurance discriminated against a Black-owned insurance brokerage firm and ultimately against Black Baltimoreans, according to a recent opinion by the Maryland Insurance Administration.

After spending weeks combing through hundreds of flight records, analyzing flight-tracking software and interviewing experts, here are answers to some — but not all — of your spy plane questions.

Imtiaz Patel, the chief executive officer of The Baltimore Banner, will step down on July 7 to take a senior leadership position with Gannett.

People are leaving Catholicism because of the church abuse scandal among other reasons. But there are also people who chose to stay.

A crowd gathered at the Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens to honor deceased servicemembers on Memorial Day.

In 1970, Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens began holding a Memorial Day ceremony in an area known as the Circle of Immortals, a section set aside for Marylanders killed in action.

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It’s been a week since the fatal encounter, and Wright’s family and friends held a vigil Friday night on a baseball field to honor and remember their father, partner and friend.

Dabrae Edwards’ family said the 19-year-old was a “gentle soul.” The teen was shot on May 19 in Southeast Baltimore and died from his injuries two days later. His funeral will be held on June 13.

The shelter has taken in over 300 animals in the past week, and has more dogs than spots available.

AAA predicts that 42.3 million Americans — including 850,000 Marylanders — will be traveling Thursday through Memorial Day, up more than 7% from last year.

The Navy flight demonstration team’s annual show over Annapolis is what drew Baltimore Banner photojournalist Ulysses Muñoz and me to Annapolis, cameras in hand. I got to see it from a boat in the Severn River, a first for me. He shot from the State House dome. Check out what we got.

Meade Senior High School was listed for sale on Zillow for just over $42,000 in Anne Arundel County — a steal at about 12 cents per square foot. The listing is a senior prank that the school system is taking in good spirits.

Baltimore resident Terry James was given just a 10% chance to live. He lost both of his legs and suffered burns on 87% of his body from an August 2020 explosion in Northwest Baltimore.

Imani Robinson, a 30-year-old Baltimore native, will have her short film “3 Blind Mice,” which she wrote and produced, starring fellow “The Wire” actors Tristan Wilds and Jermaine Crawford, shown in Cannes this month.

Five years after they first appeared in Maryland, the population of spotted lanternflies, an invasive insect native to Asia, is booming in the Baltimore region this spring.

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A 20-year-old man has been walking in his Anne Arundel County neighborhood with a fully loaded assault-style weapon to protest a new Maryland gun law. It’s terrifying kids and parents