Community issues

Watermelon and fried chicken are popular American foods — especially during the summer. But their complicated history gives some Black people pause when eating them in settings where white people are present.

The only people on Earth who regularly communicate with James Webb Space Telescope work in a nondescript concrete office building much closer to home — on the Johns Hopkins University campus in Baltimore.

Auto thefts have dropped almost as dramatically as they had spiked last summer, a Baltimore Banner data analysis found.

The outage happened at around 6 p.m. Airport officials acknowledged the outage at 6:12 p.m. on X, saying efforts were being made to restore the power.

According to the Prince George’s County Police Department, the shooting took place around 10 p.m. Friday at Dr. Henry A. Wise Jr. High School in Upper Marlboro.

Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Videtta A. Brown said in a ruling the gas emissions that damaged Baltimore fall under the federal Clean Air Act.

Following Never Forget Brands’ bankruptcy filing, the Ravens are one of five NFL teams owed money by the company, which licensed team colors and logos for its vodka.

Nearly 140 years ago, a white mob lynched a Black teenager in front of the old Towson jail. On Saturday, a ceremony remembers Howard Cooper.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in May awarded $1.8 million to the nonprofit group American Rivers to begin the planning and initial design phase for the removal of Daniels Dam.

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Former President Donald J. Trump has invited some members of Rachel Morin’s family to join him at the Republican National Convention next week.

The images released today show a distorted spiral galaxy, nicknamed the "Penguin” because it looks like it has a penguin’s beak, eye, and chest or tail, and an elliptical galaxy, nicknamed the "Egg.”

Four sites in Baltimore County were chosen for help with EV charger installations, while none in Baltimore City were selected.

The Anne Arundel County Department of Health has closed Marley Creek for the second time in a year due to a large sewage spill at a pumping station owned by an apartment complex.

Kroger Co. has informed employees at four Maryland-based Harris Teeter grocery stores that they may soon be working for the chain behind the Piggly Wiggly franchise.

A 150-year-old church overlooking Mount Vernon’s Washington Monument is for sale this month after the developer behind a controversial plan for the building died.

After surveying 375 parents and students, Howard County schools will provide healthier breakfasts and lunches this coming school year.

Baltimore Police arrested Brandon Lee Adams Jr. of Baltimore and said he stabbed 14-year-old Cortez Lemon after an argument on the bus Wednesday afternoon in the 4200 block of Frankford Avenue.

William Raynard Herold, 22, escaped near Route 50 and Bestgate Road in the Annapolis Exchange area.

The state finished a yearlong process of determining who should stay on Medicaid, and ended with fewer from a year ago but more than pre-COVID.