Community issues

Two members of Jews United for Justice urge Senate President Bill Ferguson to agree to put SB422, which would stop youths from automatically being charged as adults for crimes, to a vote in the state Senate.

Steven Schupak, the incoming CEO of Maryland Public Television, recently spoke with the Banner about the challenges facing public media and what MPT is doing to meet viewers where they are.

Hundreds of Orioles fans — kids on shoulders, old-timers in throwback jerseys — streamed into the stadium. They made beelines for the petting zoo, the 1983 World Series trophy, the dugout tours and the prospect interviews.

The Baltimore Police Department is investigating a shooting that left four people injured Saturday afternoon in the city’s Northern District.

Hundreds of protesters are lining both sides of Reisterstown Road outside the Owings Mills Tesla dealership, expressing outrage at the company’s billionaire CEO, Elon Musk.

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Dominique Dawes, the Maryland native who became the first Black American gymnast to win an individual medal in the Olympics, is headed to Baltimore for a women’s festival next weekend.

A reader says a proposed power transmission line that crossed three protected Maryland wildlands will not benefit our state and would encourage future environmental exploitation.

The port of Baltimore is named after Helen Delich Bentley, but the Banner is giving her short shrift by not recognizing that.

Mike Singer’s livestream riveted the world last year. He and thousands of others are dedicated ship watchers — specifically keeping tabs on the Dali.

Temperatures could reach 83 degrees on Saturday, according to forecasts from the National Weather Service Baltimore/Washington office.

The arts have become the latest battleground over efforts to address gender, racial discrimination and inequity.

The Baltimore City Department of Transportation alerted motorists to traffic and parking modifications to be aware of for the Orioles’ home opener.

Ronald Neverdon, 78, of Woodstock, reported that he held various positions at the Charles H. Hickey Jr. School on Old Harford Road including youth supervisor and group life supervisor starting in 1973.

Katie Pumphrey, an artist and athlete who last year completed a historic swim from the Chesapeake Bay to the Inner Harbor, is planning to do it again.

Many Columbia residents and leaders are pushing back against proposals to turn over management of the village community association buildings and neighborhood centers to the Columbia Association.

Crews have finished filling in a massive sink hole at Lake Montebello, a reservoir in Northeast Baltimore. Another project is planned for fall.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has new local leadership after the previous director was promoted, an ICE spokesperson said Friday.

Baltimore firefighters scaled towering ladders to rescue two residents trapped on a burning patio as flames engulfed the eighth floor of a high-rise apartment building in downtown Thursday evening, officials said.

A partial solar eclipse will be visible March 29 from the East Coast.