Community issues

At one Baltimore encampment, leaving can be more challenging than staying.

Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates plans to retry the case of Daaon Spears, 18, of Edmondson Village, who is charged in Baltimore Circuit Court with first-degree murder and related offenses. His first trial recently ended in a mistrial after the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict.

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown confirmed that his office had received “multiple complaints of racist text messages sent to Black Marylanders, including school-aged children.”

The jury deliberated for several hours. They had to determine not whether Delen fatally shot Lewis, but why.

“This is the biggest and most important case in the city’s history,” Baltimore’s lead attorney, Bill Carmody, told jurors.

The Maryland Transit Administration will run shuttle buses between Metro stops this weekend as it tests a new train control system.

An attorney representing Brandon Keith Heffner, a Harford County Proud Boy who went to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is asking a federal judge to delay his case until President Donald Trump’s term begins in hopes the federal case against him will be dropped.

Twelve total Salisbury University students have been charged in an attack, which police said was captured on video, that is being investigated as a hate crime.

Some fear Republican Donald Trump’s second term will not bode well for Maryland’s efforts to expand transit, including Baltimore’s Red Line.

Neighbors want to shut down an Essex boarding house. Residents say it’s the only thing keeping them off the streets.

Seven Salisbury University students were arrested and charged with first-degree assault and other offenses in an attack on a gay man in mid-October. The incident is being investigated as a hate crime.

A former Army biologist was sentenced Monday to 51 months in federal prison for conspiring to commit bribery at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Harford County.

Players were running drills for the first day of practice in August when Leslie Noble collapsed on the field.

President-elect Donald Trump came nowhere close to winning reliably blue Maryland’s 10 electoral votes Tuesday, but he performed better in every one of its 23 counties and Baltimore City.

When the Orioles unveiled their special edition City Connect uniforms, Davis appeared in a video where he spread word around the city.

An agricultural technology startup that grew lettuce and other greens inside a Baltimore County facility has shuttered, laying off 83 regional workers, according to a notification the company filed Friday with Maryland Department of Labor.

Members of the Board of Estimates voted Wednesday to formally end the city’s contract with Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts. The contract will run through Jan. 20.

Democrat Johnny Olszewski Jr. was elected to Congress on Tuesday. At least six people have publicly expressed interest in serving as interim county executive.

Maryland is now the only state with three sitting Black politicians at the same time in its top elected offices.

City officials had made a late push against Question H, warning residents that approving the measure, which sought to cut the City Council to eight members from 14, would reduce representation and mean poorer constituent services.