Community issues

COLUMN | A local historian and explorer has created a vibrant Instagram page that he hopes helps Baltimoreans feel the importance of this often-maligned but very special place.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has opened an office in Hunt Valley for its attorneys, a lawyer representing the property owner confirmed in an email to The Banner.

The Brewer’s Art has filed for bankruptcy, citing at least $1.9 million in debts, including back rent, taxes, wages and multiple lines of credit.

Fabio Delrio is accused of recording female shoppers inside changing rooms when he worked at Banana Republic. Montgomery County Police suspect there are other victims.

Without specifying a date, Anthony’s Italian Restaurant & Wine Bar in Pasadena said it will be reopening “soon.”

Anne Arundel County is getting $3.1 million in federal funds to renovate another building at the campus of the historic Crownsville Hospital. The money comes a year after the county opened a nonprofit center at the 500-acre site.

Baltimore’s free water taxi service is set for tweaks as the city eyes bigger changes along the waterfront, Mayor Brandon Scott and the transportation department announced Wednesday.

Timothy Keane will also lead a six-month study into whether Baltimore’s housing and planning agencies could be combined.

A Silver Spring teen is charged with manslaughter in the Sept. 21 crash that killed 16-year-old James Evert Anderson in Kensington.

Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Baltimore was on lockdown for over an hour on Wednesday after a report of a gun inside the school, according to school officials.

As he walked into the State House, Jeffries said he would “in all likelihood” discuss redistricting with Gov. Wes Moore.

The 43-year-old Towson resident joins a crowded race for the Democratic nomination with a platform centered on cost-of-living issues.

Anne Arundel County lawmakers on Tuesday narrowly passed legislation paving the way for tiny home developments.

A 6-year-old boy shot himself in the face and died on Tuesday in Montgomery Village, Montgomery County Police said.

The National Weather Service issued a dense fog advisory for Central Maryland for Wednesday morning.

This week’s list of things to do in Baltimore County is an especially zany one. Here are seven events for the week ending Wednesday, Feb. 25.

Baltimore’s overdose crisis does not appear to be ebbing, but evolving, according to interviews with experts. A mix of other chemicals — often less immediately lethal but dangerous in other ways — has grown increasingly common.

James Harvey, who still lives on Cross Road, descends from the first Black people to own property in Perry Hall.

The 87-year-old man found fatally shot on Valentine’s Day at a senior living facility in Potomac had practiced law in Maine and authored a novel about a murder. There are are no suspects in his death.

Virginia-based American Real Estate Partners is suing Johns Hopkins University for breaking a lease at downtown Baltimore’s Candler Building. The university blamed cuts to grant funding for the break, but then bought office space in Washington, D.C.