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Baltimore’s proposed tax cut could come at a cost — like a new trash fee
Cutting Baltimore City property tax rates would come at a cost — about $120 million annually.
Trash cans on North Chester Street are set out for pickup in the afternoon of Thursday, August 29, 2024.
Mr. Trash Wheel joins the Ravens flock, gets ‘bodacious’ California cousin
The Waterfront Partnership wasn't involved in the Newport Beach trash wheel, but said they’re very excited to see it.
The Baltimore Ravens, The Stephen and Renee Bisciotti Foundation and Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore unveiled a new Ravens-themed look for Mr. Trash Wheel.
Baltimore schools cyberattack compromised staff and student data
The data breach involved information on more than half of current employees and over 1,000 students.
Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Sonja Santelises was among the employees whose data was involved in a cybersecurity breach.
Pope Francis’ funeral to be held Saturday, with public viewing starting Wednesday
Cardinals set the funeral for Saturday in St. Peter’s Square.
Bells tolled in chapels, churches and cathedrals around the world after Pope Francis’ death was announced on Monday.
Owings Mills man killed in hit-and-run on Baltimore Beltway while changing tire
Junior Dunkley, 67, of Owings Mills, was changing a flat tire when he was struck by another vehicle on I-695 in Baltimore County.
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Moore set to expand ways for ex-offenders to clear their criminal records
In 2022, the Appellate Court of Maryland, the state’s mid-level level appeals court, ruled that people whose probation is unsatisfactorily closed after a violation cannot receive an expungement.
Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, on Tuesday is set to sign a bill that his administration put forward called the Expungement Reform Act of 2025.
Archbishop Lori urges Maryland Catholics to remember Pope Francis by serving the less fortunate
Baltimore Archbishop William Lori encouraged area parishioners to learn from Pope Francis’ legacy by embodying light and hope through service to those in the margins.
Leonor and Jose Rivera hold each other as they pay respects and mourn at a portrait of Pope Francis after a Mass at The Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in North Baltimore on Monday evening.
How Calvin Ball proposes to tighten Howard County’s belt amid federal, state cuts
Howard County Executive Calvin Ball unveiled a $2.3 billion operating budget proposal for the fiscal year beginning in July, recommending $100 million be trimmed from the county’s books.
Howard County Executive Calvin Ball briefs the County Council on his proposed fiscal year 2026 budget on April 21, 2025.
Former Annapolis beach community president gets two years’ probation for embezzlement
Eric Epstein, 64, was accused of pilfering more than $18,000 from the beachfront neighborhood of Oyster Harbor in Annapolis. His case has divided residents of the neighborhood.
The Oyster Habor Private Beach looks out on the Chesapeake Bay on Oct. 11, 2024. Oyster Harbor is a private community in Annapolis, Md.
Amazon driver gets 45 days in jail after running over woman in crosswalk, driving away
A judge rejected a plea agreement for Amazon driver Jerome Young Jr. that called for him to serve no jail time in the hit-and-run, which happened near the intersection of East Pratt and South Chester streets in Butchers Hill.
Chelsey Douglas with her attorney, David Ellin, outside the district courthouse in south Baltimore on Thursday, March 20, 2025.
The state knew about toxic chemicals in Perdue’s wastewater. Residents had no idea.
Perdue and Maryland state officials found "forever chemicals" in the wastewater at the Wicomico County facility more than a year before telling the plant's neighbors, emails show.
Residential properties abut the Perdue Agribusiness factory in Salisbury.
MTA offers free rides on trains, buses on Tuesday to mark Earth Day
For the second Earth Day in a row, rides on any Mass Transit Administration bus, commuter bus, Mobility paratransit, light rail, Metro SubwayLink or MARC train will be free.
Free rides on any MTA bus, commuter bus, Mobility paratransit, light rail, Metro SubwayLink or MARC train for Earth Day.
Baltimore Police are recruiting a wave of new officers, but there’s one major problem
The Baltimore Police Department is now facing delays in getting trainees out on the streets due to its reliance on a state-owned firing range.
The police department's recruitment efforts have been hampered recently by its reliance on a state-owned firearms training range in Baltimore County.
After scolding, Maryland assures federal regulators it will protect Bay Bridge
Maryland Transportation Authority officials said they have completed a new risk analysis of the Bay Bridge one month after the National Transportation Safety Board admonished the authority for failing to assess its most essential bridges for the threat of vessel collisions.
Maryland will add physical fortifications to protect the Chesapeake Bay Bridge from ship strikes like the one that took down the Key Bridge.
For Maryland Catholics, Pope Francis opened doors: ‘People found this pope different’
Maryland Catholics, whether they had disagreements with the Catholic Church or not, remember Pope Francis as a humble priest who lifted up the needs and suffering of common people above all else.
EDMONTON, AB - JULY 26: Pope Francis arrives at Commonwealth Stadium to give an open-air mass on July 26, 2022 in Edmonton, Canada. The pope is meeting with Indigenous communities and community leaders in Canada in an effort to reconcile the history of physical and sexual abuse of Indigenous children in the country's Catholic-run residential schools, as detailed in a 2015 Canadian-government-funded commission report.
Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff who ministered with a charming, humble style, dies at 88
Pope Francis, who suffered from chronic lung disease and was admitted to a hospital in February for a respiratory crisis, has died.
Pope Francis waves to thousands of followers as he arrives at the Manila Cathedral on January 16, 2015 in Manila, Philippines.
As a prosecutor in Baltimore, Garret Mooney tries misdemeanor cases. He also happens to be blind.
Mooney, 31, of Madison Park, is an assistant state’s attorney in the Misdemeanor Jury Trial Unit.
Garret Mooney, an assistant state’s attorney in the Baltimore State’s Attorney's Office’s Misdemeanor Jury Trial Unit, walks to the Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. Courthouse for a hearing.
These charts show how Baltimore has changed since Freddie Gray’s death
Baltimore is markedly different than it was then years ago — and, in some ways, exactly the same.
A Freddie Gray mural visible through a memorial wreath on the corner of N. Mount and Presbury Streets in Sandtown-Winchester.
A troubled New York investor started to flip a Baltimore community. Then he died.
Before his death, Mendel Steiner was fighting off a receivership petition at two Baltimore apartment complexes.
The Dutch Village apartment complex was home to as many as 120 students at Yorkwood Elementary School last year.
Letter: A doctor asks, ‘Who will care for sick children in Maryland?’
Scott Krugman, senior associate dean for LifeBridge Health/George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, says it is important to find a sustainable solution for ensuring access to care for sick children.
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