Community issues

David Schweizer, a Maryland native who directed shows at Baltimore Center Stage and in Los Angeles and New York, died on Dec. 5 of a heart attack. He was 74.

No one I know of studies Chesapeake Bay fog. It’s just the weather. But after spotting an increasing number of fog warnings on the Bay Bridge, maybe someone should.

Deanta Dorsey was an Edmondson-Westside High School sophomore when he was killed in the shooting.

A note from Baltimore Banner Editor in Chief Kimi Yoshino on The Banner sharing data about U.S. overdoses.

American discount retailer Big Lots announced Thursday it's closing all stores across the nation, including 21 locations in Maryland.

The state’s probation agents have not conducted home visits, including with registered sex offenders, since May, after the corrections department secretary suspended the check-ins for safety reasons.

About a month after installing two new neighborhood speed cameras, three more are coming to Anne Arundel County on Dec. 21.

Luigi Mangione, who’s accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, waived extradition from Pennsylvania to New York to face charges including first-degree murder.

Peter Thomas, formerly of “Real Housewives of Atlanta” and Bar One in Baltimore, will serve 18 months in prison for failing to pay the government more than $2.5 million in employment taxes.

Gordon Staron, 35, of Abingdon in Harford County, was sentenced on Thursday in Baltimore Circuit Court for the murders of Keith Bell and Javarick Gantt.

Law enforcement officials were bracing for crowds of reporters, protesters and onlookers ay Luigi Mangione's hearing Thursday in Hollidaysburg.

The procedural step cleared the way for the New York Police Department to take Mangione into custody.

An Anne Arundel County man was sentenced to five years behind bars for dumping and abandoning over 250,000 scrap tires in Allegany, the state attorney general announced Wednesday.

“Real Housewives of Potomac” star Karen Huger could face up to two years in prison after being found guilty in her DUI case.

Officials said the shooting in Towson appeared “targeted,” and said they believe there is no ongoing threat to the general public.

Gov. Wes Moore and Comptroller Brooke Lierman let out some frustration at today’s Board of Public Works meeting with the over budget and overdue transit project in the D.C. suburbs.

Hundreds gathered at Saints Philip and James Church on North Charles Street for the final chance to see the relics of a revered theologian in the U.S.

Over a dozen Essex residents held a demonstration Tuesday afternoon against a gun shop that opened across a Church day care.

The trial in Howard County Circuit Court ended with what is believed to be the largest medical malpractice verdict in county history.

A bank has filed to foreclose on a high-profile Chasen Cos. property at 1400 Aliceanna St.