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    4 people injured after ‘machinery malfunction’ at McCormick plant in Hunt Valley
    Four people were injured after a machine at McCormick & Company’s Hunt Valley spice plant malfunctioned, according to the Baltimore County Fire Department.
    The exterior of McCormick & Company's global headquarters in Hunt Valley, Md. on Wednesday, April 16, 2025.
    Traffic alert: Baltimore Harbor Tunnel to temporarily close lanes overnight
    Drivers who use the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel should expect temporary lane closures this week, according to the Maryland Transportation Authority.
    Views of the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel on June 5, 2024.
    ‘A bulletproof God’: Baltimore pastor delivers Easter sermon days after being shot, carjacked
    The cleric told his congregants and the public to forgive the young man who shot and robbed him.
    Over the past five years, Rashad Singletary has grown Mt. Olive from a 14-person congregation to over 300 regular attendees — revolutionizing the historic Turner Station church.
    2 shot, one killed in separate Baltimore shootings
    Two people were shot overnight in separate incidents near Baltimore nightlife hubs.
    A Baltimore County police vehicle’s lights flash while parked outside of the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, Md. on Thursday, March 13, 2025.
    How Baltimore students are being trained to join the city’s vacant housing fight
    Requity wants to scale so that vocational students complete one vacant house a year.
    Requity, a work-based training program, holds a ribbon-cutting of the first home largely rehabbed by high school students.
    Lawyer again claims to be denied access to immigrant client injured during ICE crash
    The lawyer for a 32-year-old man who he said was injured this week when his van was struck by a federal immigration agent’s vehicle was again denied access to him, the attorney said.
    An ICE vehicle rammed into the back of the van Ever Alvarenga Rios was driving on his way to work Thursday morning, his lawyer claims. Alvarenga Rios shows injuries he sustained from the accident.
    Pastor shot, carjacked outside Baltimore home returns to church for Easter: ‘Reignited a fire’
    Rashad Singletary, the beloved head pastor at Mt. Olive Baptist Church of Turner Station, has worked in violence prevention programs in Baltimore since at least 2013.
    Rashad Singletary, the head pastor at Mt. Olive Baptist Church of Turner Station, giving a sermon on Tuesday, March 31, 2026.
    SUV with Maryland license plate collides with DC bus, causing it to crash into restaurant
    An SUV with a Maryland license plate crashed into a Metro bus on Saturday morning, causing the bus to drive into a restaurant in the Shaw neighborhood, officials said.
    SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 2026 -  A crash at 7th and Q Streets in NW DC where a bus was struck by a vehicle, causing it to crash into a building. Three people sustained minor injuries.
    Graffiti cat: Kitten named after Baltimore’s RLong up for adoption
    The Maryland SPCA often sees a surge of kitten intakes during spring and summer and tries to pick themes for names. One cat has a familiar name: RLong, the tag of a mysterious Baltimore graffiti artist.
    RLong is a calico kitten up for adoption from the Maryland SPCA.
    ICE crash injures immigrant; lawyer says it appears intentional
    A 32-year-old man remained under treatment Friday at a Baltimore hospital for “significant injuries” after his lawyer claimed an ICE vehicle rammed the back of the immigrant’s van this week.
    An ICE vehicle rammed into the back of the van Ever Alvarenga Rios was driving on his way to work Thursday morning, his lawyer claims.
    The family candymakers keeping Baltimore’s Easter traditions alive
    Baltimore’s beloved local candymakers — Wockenfuss, Rheb’s and Mary Sue — have been filling Easter baskets for generations. Loyal customers say nothing from the grocery store comes close.
    Bunny-shaped chocolates for sale at Wockenfuss Candies, one of the oldest candymakers in Baltimore.
    Feds: We’re reconsidering scope of Washington County ICE detention facility
    The federal government is “reconsidering the precise scope” of a planned immigration processing and detention facility in Washington County, according to new court records.
    The warehouse in Washington County that the Department of Homeland Security purchased at 16220 Wright Road.
    DoorDash benefits program gives Maryland drivers access to paid leave, emergency savings
    A controversial benefits program gave delivery drivers an opportunity they never imagined — paid time off.
    A food delivery motorcycle rider waits for the traffic light to change March 30, 2020, in Lone Tree, Colo.
    What to know about TSA wait times at BWI and other airports Friday
    Operations at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport have returned to normal, with no major disruptions Friday.
    Travelers at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport this week are seeing normal wait times at security checkpoints.
    Need to knead NeeDoh? Squishy toy craze sends parents scrambling.
    TikTok spawned an obsession for NeeDoh — brightly colored, textured, squishy toys that parents are desperately seeking for Easter baskets.
    Rachel Metivier holds her haul of NeeDoh and Mystery Squishy Dumplings.
    Amazon wants sprawling data center campuses at Calvert Cliffs nuclear site
    Amazon wants to build three campuses at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant, according to documents obtained and reviewed by The Banner.
    The Calvert Cliffs Clean Energy Center, Constellation’s nuclear power plant is located on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Lusby, Maryland.
    He didn’t want to cuff people in crisis. Anne Arundel police made him a mall cop.
    The lieutenant who led the Anne Arundel County Police Department’s Crisis Intervention Team to international renown has been reassigned to mall security after being disciplined for giving his team discretion not to handcuff people with mental illness or addiction.
    Lt. Steven Thomas
    35-year-old man shot by police after struggle in West Baltimore
    Officers with the Baltimore Police Department shot a 35-year-old man in West Baltimore after struggling to apprehend him and tasing him in the process, officials said.
    Baltimore PD officers respond to the scene of a police-involved shooting on the 1700 block of Pennsylvania Avenue on Thursday.
    Maryland’s insurer settles with Dali’s owners ahead of Key Bridge trial
    With a civil trial set to begin in two months, there could be more settlements in the coming weeks.
    The Weeks 533 crane barge uses a pile driver to set a piling into the substrate below the Patapsco riverbed at the Francis Scott Key Bridge site.
    A Towson Chick-fil-A has free ice cream — if you put your phone away
    Chick-fil-A at Towson Place is the latest branch to participate in the Cell Phone Coop Challenge, offering free Icedreams to customers who can go without their phones.
    From left, Raina Williams, Sam Williams, Ovi Williams and Zil Patel take on Chick-fil-A at Towson Place’s Cell Phone Coop Challenge on Wednesday.
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