CURRENT EDITION: baltimore (none)🔄 Loading BlueConic...EDITION HISTORY: No changes tracked
🔵 BlueConic: ___🍪 Cookie: ___ UNKNOWN🔗 Query: ___✏️ Composer: ___

Local news

    Respect the lawn chair? Mayor Scott says nope.
    Are you entitled to save your shoveled-out parking space with a lawn chair?
    As residents dig vehicles out from fortresses of snow Monday morning using shovels, scrapers, brooms and more, some have staked their claim to a hard-earned spot.
In Canton, one lawn chair had been placed in a vacated area.
    Ready to go sledding? Favorite spots in Baltimore and beyond.
    After scouring social media and surveying Banner staff, here are some of our favorite sledding spots to enjoy on a snow day.
    Penny Parish, front, and Joy Duncan sled down the stairs at Wyman Park Dell on the morning after the first lasting snowfall of the winter, in Baltimore, MD on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025.
    Hutzell: Winter storm is the first big test for Annapolis’ new mayor. He’s home sick.
    COLUMN | As Annapolis Mayor Jared Littmann prepped Friday for the first big snowstorm in a decade, he was working from home with a bad cold. That doesn't mean city residents will cut him slack if the city’s response falls short.
    Snow started to form on Weems Creek on Jan. 22, 2016, the first day of a snowstorm that dropped almost 30 inches on Annapolis. The storm set to start Sunday will be first test for the city's new mayor.
    Howard County Police confirm ICE agents pulled man from vehicle in Columbia, took him into custody
    Howard County Police said Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained a man in Columbia on Saturday morning after removing him from the vehicle he was driving.
    The Howard County Police logo seen outside their headquarters on January 25, 2024.
    Will the winter storm close schools for a whole week? This NBC4 weatherman thinks so.
    NBC4 Washington weatherman Chuck Bell has a prediction that may send kids and teachers jumping for joy, but strike terror into the hearts of parents.
    Children sled down the hill at Wyman Park Dell on the morning after the first lasting snowfall of the winter, in Baltimore, MD on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025.
    She was locked up by ICE. Her son died the next day.
    The family and their community are pushing for the mother’s release so she can mourn her son and attend his funeral.
    From left, Arlit Martinez-Carrada and her sons Ervin Martinez, 16, and Kevin Martinez, 15, who had been diagnosed with cancer.
    YouTuber Nick Shirley came to Baltimore to talk about fentanyl. People weren’t happy.
    YouTuber Nick Shirley is known for both prank videos and conducting man-on-the-street-style interviews on politically charged topics.
    Conservative YouTube content creator Nick Shirley was confronted at Penn North’s Simmons Memorial Baptist Church on Thursday.
    What to do during a power outage amid major winter storm
    Here’s what to do if you lose power during a major winter storm that’s set to hit Maryland with heavy snowfall.
    Mia (left, 1), Eva (center, 4) , and Anna (right) Thompson look out at the snowfall in their Columbia, MD neighborhood on January 6th, 2025.
    List: Maryland universities announce closures, cancellations ahead of snowstorm
    Maryland universities have announced closures, cancellations and virtual adjustments ahead of a major snowstorm this weekend.
    Maryland universities have announced closures, cancellations and virtual adjustments ahead of a major snowstorm this weekend.
    Maryland braces for storm that could bring largest snowfall since 2016
    A major winter storm is on track to dump heavy snow — 11-13 inches — and ice on the Baltimore region this weekend, prompting warnings from state and local officials.
    Robert Cannon the vice president at Hardware Plus, Inc. yells out to passerby “Snow shovels!” in Baltimore, Friday, January 23, 2026. Maryland is bracing for storm that could bring largest snowfall since 2016.
    From roads to hospitals, how Maryland is preparing for the snowstorm
    Here’s how local and state agencies, hospitals and transportation authorities are preparing for the winter storm in Maryland.
    A snow plow on St. Paul Avenue on Monday, January 6, 2025.
    Baltimore drivers, beware of street parking during snow emergencies
    As a snowstorm approaches Baltimore this weekend, you might want to think about moving your car before the city does it for you.
    The mostly empty road with snow-covered cars on Calvert St. on a snowy day in Baltimore on January 19, 2024.
    Ex-St. John’s Parish Day School employee sentenced for possession of child sexual abuse materials
    Ellicott City resident Jackie Wang, 18, pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor count in October after police found an external hard drive hidden under his mattress that contained child sexual abuse material.
    Exterior of the Circuit Court for Howard County is seen on January 30, 2024.
    18-year-old charged in Briggs Chaney Road homicide
    Montgomery County police arrested an 18-year-old in connection with the Jan. 8 shooting death of Gavin St. Aubyn Boothe in Silver Spring.
    A police line do not cross tape blocks a pathway near Penn Station.
    Grocery stores empty out as Marylanders panic shop ahead of storm
    At grocery stores in Maryland, shoppers found bare shelves and long checkout lines Thursday night amid a rush to finish errands and stock up ahead of this weekend’s major snowstorm.
    Shoppers wait in a long line to buy groceries at the Whole Foods Market in Baltimore's Mt. Washington neighborhood on Friday morning.
    Investigators identify BPD officers and the man they fatally shot near Eastwood
    The man, Jamarl Muse of Baltimore, was shot by Sergeant Carlos Arias, a 15-year police veteran and Officer Edwin Ruiz, a 3-year police veteran, according to a press release from the Attorney General’s Independent Investigations Division.
    Officers responded to reports of an armed person near 6800 Bank Street about 9:14 p.m.. Police found the man on a bike in the 6500 block of Eastern Avenue, near the Interstate 95 ramps.
    Police: Both child and school bus driver bear responsibility in fatal collision
    Police determined that both the middle schooler on a bike and the driver of a school bus she collided with contributed to her death in October.
    Items left at a Rockville intersection to honor Summer Lim, an 11-year-old girl killed in a collision with a school bus there last week.
    This hotel symbolized downtown Baltimore’s rebirth. Now it’s in foreclosure.
    The Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel — one of the city’s biggest hotels and a symbol of downtown’s reinvention as a tourism destination — is in foreclosure.
    The Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel overlooking Pratt Street.
    The Maryland snowstorms of decades past
    Here’s a look at some of the Maryland region’s most historic winter storms.
    A major winter storm is expected to sweep across much of the East Coast this weekend. But will it break records?
    Ivan Bates’ break-up with mayor’s public safety office finds legal support
    Bates said his office would continue to prosecute cases brought by Baltimore Police through MONSE, as required by law.
    Bates said his office would continue to prosecute cases brought by Baltimore Police through MONSE, as required by law.
    Load More Stories
    Oh no!

    Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes. If the problem persists, please contact customer service at 443-843-0043 or customercare@thebaltimorebanner.com.