Community issues

Memorials and a peace rally this weekend will celebrate the lives of those lost and comfort a mourning community after a deadly double shooting earlier this week in Severn.

Baltimore Police are investigating four deaths that have occurred in the city since the beginning of March, including a homicide, a murder-suicide, and a fatal hit-and-run.

City attorneys and the U.S. Department of Justice are asking a judge to narrow the scope of the Baltimore Police Department’s federal oversight.

Anne Arundel County Public Schools leaders struck a cautious tone this week while speaking about the potential impacts of President Donald Trump’s education and immigration mandates, including threats to federal funding.

The Baltimore City Fire Department responded to a four-alarm fire at the 2200 block of North Fulton Avenue early Friday morning.

Local Black bookstore Urban Reads has been habitually racially harassed, but Baltimore showed up for the shop in many ways.

Media mogul David Smith shocked the city with the purchase of The Baltimore Sun last year. He promised radical change and exhorted his new staff to “go make me some money.” It’s been a rocky road ever since.

Dr. Lillian Blackmon Crenshaw, who spent 25 years caring for babies at the University of Maryland, died Feb. 25 of Lewy body dementia. She was 87.

The Baltimore Police Department is asking for the public’s help in identifying the driver of a truck that fatally struck a woman last month in Southeast Baltimore on Pulaski Highway.

In a 14-page opinion, Baltimore Circuit Judge Jennifer B. Schiffer wrote that Syed is “not a danger to the public” and “interests of justice will be better served by a reduced sentence.”

If you’re planning to use the MTA light rail this weekend, be aware that several stops along the southern portion of the system will be closed for track maintenance on Sunday.

After seven years in office, David Yungmann said he’s ready to step back from public life and refocus on his real estate career.

Johns Hopkins researchers believe their findings represent the first assessment of how Baltimore-area residents think about climate change.

Breezy conditions continue Thursday across the Baltimore region with wind advisories in place until midnight, according to the National Weather Service.

Sometimes, you have to do something that scares you. On Wednesday morning, I helped rescue a wounded bald eagle from a neighbor’s yard and transported it to a wildlife center.

The Eastern Ecological Science Center’s Bee Lab in Prince George’s County is funded by the U.S. Geological Survey. Volunteers helped preserve bees as they worry about the lab’s fate amid Trump’s federal funding cuts.

Fleur Le Faivre, a lifelong Baltimorean who spread joy wherever she went, died in early January. She was 51.

A Thursday hearing will be the first time public officials discuss transit’s impact on students since a Banner investigation found it’s nearly impossible for them to get to school on time every day.

The 12th annual St. Patrick's Parade steps off at 1 p.m. Sunday, March 9, but it's really an all-Irish weekend in Annapolis.

Assadollah Hashemi, 66, of Reservoir Hill, entered mental health court after pleading guilty on Wednesday in Baltimore Circuit Court to second-degree arson and destruction of a religious structure.