Community issues

Wesley Lyons, 35, was taken into custody after he was located hiding out in an Anne Arundel County hotel room.

Baltimore City school teacher Lewis M. Laury Jr., 24, was arrested in connection with the case of a 12-year-old Pikesville girl who went missing for a week.

The circumstances surrounding the deaths of Parkville’s Maxine Redfern and Arnel Redfern were considered by the attorney general for intentional use of excessive force, voluntary manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter.

Here’s what you need to know about traffic if you’re planning to spend July 4 at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor or heading to the beach by way of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and U.S. 50.

The Office of People’s Counsel, a state agency that represents Maryland utility customers, says more than $700 million a year in gas infrastructure spending by utilities is worsening the energy burden on low-income communities and hampering the state’s efforts to hit ambitious clean energy and emissions reduction targets.

In 1999, Jones was found guilty in Baltimore Circuit Court of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder — a crime he maintains that he did not commit — and sentenced to life in prison. But an administrative law judge later ruled that he ineligible for compensation and benefits because the crime was a misdemeanor, not a felony, at the time in Maryland.

The East Baltimore-based church expects to select a firm in the next few weeks and anticipates the work could take up to six months. Pastor Robert Colban's empathetic tone Sunday marked a departure from the more defensive sermons delivered by another pastor in response to a Baltimore Banner series of articles.

Police said a 15-year-old boy who was shot in East Baltimore on Sunday afternoon was transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening wounds.

An estimated 2,500 people turned out for the third annual event to celebrate Baltimore's trans community. The event included a parade, a block party and a street renaming.

Authorities say Anthony Jacob Fritz, 38, faces two charges after he allegedly threatened to blow up an MVA building where he worked in Hagerstown. The state fire marshal's office says it found 26 guns and dozens of boxes of ammo during a search of his home.

Friends from as far away as Pennsylvania traveled to Maryland to remember 18-year-old Anthony Hinton III, a Glen Burnie High School graduate who was a defensive lineman at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia.

After showers and storms move through the Baltimore region on Sunday, forecasters are predicting sunny skies and temperatures in the 80s on Monday and Tuesday. Intense heat and possibly storms return on the holiday.

After a report of a suspicious object disrupted a Trans Pride parade in Baltimore on Saturday, law enforcement officials told organizers it had been deemed “nonthreatening,”

The neighborhood is divided over whether Brooklyn Day is worth celebrating this year.

Earl Lee, 28, of Mid-Govans, is set to be sentenced Oct. 1 in Baltimore Circuit Court on charges of first-degree murder, use of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence, and illegal possession of a regulated firearm.

Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s use of the phrase “Black jobs” caught the attention and ire of many Black Americans, including Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott.

The Chesapeake Bay Program has established a “Beyond 2025″ committee to develop recommendations for future cleanup efforts. The committee’s recommendations are expected to be made public in early July and the final report will be delivered near the end of the year.

Hank the goat, sometimes wearing his trademark fedora, has become a neighborhood sensation.

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Many former members of Greater Grace World Outreach flocked to the East Baltimore church Friday evening to protest leaders’ handling of allegations of child sex abuse — the subject of a Baltimore Banner investigation.