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Gov. Moore wants to eliminate 5,000 vacant Baltimore homes in 5 years
The executive order comes about 10 months after Mayor Brandon Scott and community partners rolled out a comprehensive strategy designed to abate the city’s vacant housing epidemic
The view from the third floor of one of Rising Housing’s properties in West Baltimore that will become a commercialized space called Java and Joists, as seen on Tuesday, April 9, 2024.
Man maintains innocence at sentencing for murder of Baltimore rapper President Davo
Earl Lee, 28, of Mid-Govans, was found guilty in Baltimore Circuit Court of first-degree murder and related crimes. “I know I did not kill that man,” he told Circuit Judge Kendra Y. Ausby at his sentencing.
David Boykin, a rising local rapper best known around Baltimore as President Davo, was shot and killed on Cliftwood Avenue between North Washington and North Chester streets, just south of Clifton Park in East Baltimore, on Oct. 6, 2023. He was 28.
iMPACT Maryland: Rubenstein talks Orioles spending, Alsobrooks calls out Hogan
David Rubenstein didn’t get into the baseball business to make money, but to “make a great baseball team,” the 75-year-old owner of the Baltimore Orioles said at iMPACT Maryland.
David Rubenstein speaks with Baltimore Banner Editor in Chief Kimi Yoshino during the IMPACT Maryland Event at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall on October 1st, 2024 in Baltimore, MD.
State’s attorney charges teen as an adult in Butchers Hill attack that went viral
Police also arrested an 18-year-old on charges of attempted murder in the Butchers Hill attack.
A 15-year-old boy was charged as an adult with attempted murder in a robbery and attack that happened in Southeast Baltimore.
Man pleads guilty to killing his deaf cellmate at Baltimore jail
A man admitted on Tuesday to killing his cellmate at a Baltimore jail in a case that raised questions about how prisoners with disabilities are housed.
Javarick Gantt, 34, sits on a stoop and poses for a photograph at an unknown location in Baltimore. Gantt was murdered by an unknown assailant at a state-run jail in the city earlier this month.
Ex-husband caught in Florida, charged in Maryland double homicide
David Phillip Turner, 33, from Miami, was taken into custody on Saturday in Ft. Lauderdale.
A patrol call belonging to the Frederick County Sheriff's Office
Dockworkers strike at Port of Baltimore as contract expires
More than 100 people gathered along outside marine terminals at the Port of Baltimore after midnight, calling for higher wages and to stop automation at the ports.
Union members with the International Longshoremen’s Association and Local 333 continue to strike in the rain after over eight hours of picketing against the automation of port work and low wages outside the Dundalk Marine Terminal on Tuesday, October 1, 2024 in Baltimore, MD.
Marylanders don’t have a ‘right to die.’ Those who live with pain want options.
Diane Kraus, after watching legislation stall for years in Maryland, found hope when the Delaware General Assembly passed legislation that would allow those with terminal illnesses to choose death with dignity. But then the governor vetoed the legislation.
Diane Kraus poses for a portrait on the balcony of her Baltimore home on Aug. 22, 2024.
100s of black cats roamed a Chesapeake Bay island. Then they disappeared.
Charles Carroll III gathered hundreds of black cats on a Chesapeake Bay island to create a fur farm in the 1840s. Where did they all go?
Artist Katherine Fahey became obsessed with a long-ago colony of black cats on Poplar Island, located on the Chesapeake Bay.
Maryland Army National Guard rescues 70 in North Carolina after Hurricane Helene
Two Maryland teams ran more than a dozen rescue missions over the weekend, according to the Maryland Army National Guard.
Two Maryland teams ran more than a dozen rescue missions over the weekend, according to the Maryland Army National Guard.
Why does the ground beneath North Charles Street keep catching fire?
Underground fires have broken out three times in a stretch of Baltimore’s North Charles Street, raising questions about safety and the cause of the subterranean blazes.
BGE workers continue working on North Charles St., in Baltimore, Monday, September 30, 2024.
Pedestrian fatally struck by state police vehicle in Anne Arundel County; investigation under way
Maryland State Police are investigating a fatal crash involving a trooper.
The Maryland State Police logo.
Maryland becomes the first East Coast state to adopt worker heat protections
Maryland’s newly published and adopted heat standard, which goes into effect Monday, requires all workers to have access to water, shade and rest breaks when temperatures exceed 80 degrees.
In Maryland, workers now must be provided with at least 32 ounces of water, shaded breaks and training on the symptoms of heat illness.
Pratt Library’s unconventional new CEO is out to change lives
After a national search, the Pratt Libraries boards selected Chad Helton as president and CEO of the 142-year-old Baltimore library system.
Chad Helton, President and CEO of the Enoch Pratt Free Library.
As port strike looms, businesses are still reeling from Key Bridge collapse
Six months after the Key Bridge collapse, more than 5,500 companies — most of them in transportation and warehousing — have applied for SBA loans.
With a new bridge still years away, most companies view SBA loans as a short-term solution.
Rare brown boobies bewitch Baltimore birders
Brown boobies, rare birds native to the tropics, are getting comfortable on buoys in the Chesapeake.
Brown Boobies sit on a port hand navigation buoy in the Chesapeake Bay near Rock Hall. A colony of more than a dozen boobies, which are normally found in the tropics, has been drawing birders onto the bay for much of the summer.
Maryland is a safe haven for abortion care — with one obscure exception
Women who qualified for Medicaid because they are pregnant may have to foot the bill for an abortion.
One of the 3 procedure rooms at Partners in Abortion Care, a women-owned and operated abortion clinic providing abortions in all trimesters, based in College Park, Maryland.
Underground fire chars Baltimore bookstore, disrupts internet and power
An underground fire shut down streets in downtown Baltimore and caused power and internet outages Sunday.
The interior of Viva Books in downtown Baltimore was badly damaged in a fire that officials say started underground.
Don’t let the cool end to the season fool you. Summer 2024 was a scorcher.
2024 was the second-hottest summer since 1995, according to a Banner analysis of temperatures at Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport.
A multicolored popsicle ranks summers based on how hot they were. This year was the second hottest summer, second only to 2010.
After Chappell Roan dropped out of All Things Go, the festival moved quickly for a replacement
Roan said Friday she was dropping out of the festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion and the New York City location this weekend, noting the scrutiny she faced for not endorsing a presidential candidate.
Chappell Roan will not perform this weekend at the All Things Go music festival in Columbia and New York City.
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