Community issues

Mayor Brandon Scott laid the groundwork for the city to begin spending money, with designs on slowing the death toll in a city where in recent years an average of three people have died from overdoses every day.

After voting to authorize a strike earlier this month, union hotel workers and Hilton had their final negotiations before their contract's expiration on Aug. 29.

Police confirmed the fire last week at the East Baltimore motorcycle club was arson.

Grocery stores targeting youths with curfews sends the harmful and inaccurate message that young people are primarily responsible for crime and shoplifting, says Hannah Stommel, a Zubrow fellow at the Juvenile Law Center.

From a Caribbean wine festival to a Ravens paint party, here are some of the activities coming up in the county for the week ending Sept. 4.

Sometimes referred to as housing navigators or counselors, they take on a range of tasks, including providing hands-on support to households as they browse housing options and make contact with landlords.

The new food poisoning toll includes two deaths in South Carolina plus one each in Florida, New Mexico and Tennessee, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Three deaths were previously confirmed in people who lived in Illinois, New Jersey and Virginia.

The Greater Baltimore Tech Hub Consortium was one of 31 communities across the country to receive the federal designation last year as a “Tech Hub.”

Howard County Police said in a news release that they believe a 17-year-old from Columbia targeted Angelo Little, also 17, as shoppers milled about on July 27. Detectives said the suspect and victim knew each other, but they have not determined a motive.

The 29-year-old woman who was arrested over the weekend and charged with murder after a woman’s death in Catonsville killed her sister after a wedding, according to charging documents.

A Baltimore propane distribution company is suing the owners of the cargo ship Dali for economic losses suffered from the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse.

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown on Tuesday said that over the course of three successful burglaries, the group stole at least 81 firearms and 10 firearm replicas from gun stores.

The school board “was made aware of a potentially unsafe situation in the boardroom,” according to a statement from the school system.

“This is the library they’re going to remember, but a thousand times better," Sonia Alcántara-Antoine, the CEO of the Baltimore County Public Library, said of the renovated Catonsville branch.

Dangerously high temperatures are forecast for the region Wednesday, and some Baltimore schools are set to close early.

The extra rainy start to Maryland’s summer saw makes it likely Baltimore will have a year without a jellyfish invasion, experts said.

The Baltimore hospital will use a $10 million gift to help pay tuition for medical students training there.

A proposal to link The Greenway Trails Network between Druid Hill and Leakin parks has left some trail advocates scratching their heads.

Andrea Rodriguez Avila transferred to Rice, in Houston, Texas, last spring from the Community College of Baltimore County. She was from Nottingham, Maryland, and graduated from Perry Hall High School in 2021.

"Your honor," Chris Bendann told U.S. Senior District Judge James K. Bredar on Tuesday as court adjourned for the day, "I've been advised to let you know I'll sleep on it."