Community issues

The Clearfield Bible Church, in the 1300 block of Old Westminster Pike, caught fire around 3 p.m., according to Maryland State Fire Marshal’s Office.

City code makes clear that employees are prohibited from working for or receiving payment from organizations that have contracts with their agency, as Chase Brexton does with the health department.

No one seems to want a proposed 70-mile power transmission line that would run through Carroll, Frederick and Baltimore Counties. And no one seems to know exactly how to stop it.

As people fell sick, scientists from Maryland discovered listeria was the cause of a nationwide outbreak by testing Boar’s Head deli meat at a Baltimore grocery store.

Johns Hopkins University released finalized policies and procedures for its private police force, an initiative that has faced pushback from campus residents and neighboring communities.

Montgomery County lawmakers want to establish a pilot program that would automatically ticket drivers if their vehicles are making excessive noise via unlawfully modified exhaust systems.

A Prince George’s County canine officer is charged with animal cruelty over the mistreatment of a police dog.

Chemical company W.R. Grace & Co. wants to recycle plastics in Columbia, but neighbors worry about the impact on air quality.

Howard County Police still have no suspect in the 2020 killings of Rabiah Ahmad and her baby, Ahja.

Perdue has agreed to pay the Maryland Department of the Environment close to $12 million to settle air pollution violations at the company’s soybean facility on the Eastern Shore.

The tourism group Visit Harford is suing Harford County, alleging it hasn’t been paid for promoting tourism in the county.

Kermit Travers was among only a handful that could be counted as a Black skipjack captain, a fading profession with historic roots. Travers died July 22 in hospice care at age 86, almost certainly the last of his peers.

The new recall includes 71 products made between May 10 and July 29 under the Boar’s Head and Old Country brand names. It follows an earlier recall of more than 200,000 pounds of sliced deli poultry and meat. The new items include meat intended to be sliced at delis as well as some packaged meat and poultry products sold in stores.

Dr. Emenuga is the subject of a criminal investigation that focuses, at least in part, on work she did at a health care provider while also serving as Baltimore’s health commissioner.

The Baltimore Banner obtained a copy of the video on Tuesday from the Baltimore Police Department through a Maryland Public Information Act request.

The project that could become Maryland’s first offshore wind farm would have few major environmental impacts, according to a review by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

Baltimore Police have arrested a 15-year-old boy in the July 21 shooting death of 14-year-old Jasper Davis at the Mondawmin Metro Center.

The new cargo numbers from Georgia indicate that Brunswick is already extremely close. Port officials in Maryland reported that Baltimore handled 847,000 auto imports and exports in the 2023 calendar year.

Pumphrey began her journey through the North Pacific Ocean at 10:30 p.m. Sunday. Her swim took more than 14 hours to complete.

Artscape kicks off this Friday, Aug. 2. But some roads are already closing to make way for the setup.