Community issues

Newly passed legislation will force current members of the Maryland Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention to reapply to the commission. Attorney General Anthony Brown said he is eagerly looking forward to the application process that will populate the new commission.

Republicans, Democrats and my colleagues in journalism alike would be wise to heed the ghost of Willie Horton, whose story still haunts us 26 years after his name entered the American lexicon.

Baltimore Police and firefighters were called to the 2600 block of Port Covington Drive at around 5:50 p.m. Saturday to a report of multiple people in the water, said Lindsey Eldridge, a spokesperson for the Baltimore Police Department.

Marcel Traoren was last seen in Dundalk early Friday around 5 a.m., police said. The child was reported missing, and a search was launched around 7 a.m.

The settlement comes ahead of a jury trial scheduled to take place in the U.S. District Court for Maryland on July 15. The settlement must be approved by U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett.

If the sun is shining in Annapolis, there’s a good chance Darim Traore is selling flowers at his stand outside Reynolds Tavern with a huge smile on his face.

Join Baltimore Banner Senior Deputy Managing Editor Richard Martin and reporters Jessica Calefati, Justin Fenton and Julie Scharper for a discussion on the Greater Grace investigative series on June 27.

If the weather cooperates, on Tuesday she will enter the bay near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and swim more than 24 miles to the Harborplace Amphitheater in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, one of her longest swims ever — a never-before-done swim and the longest anyone has attempted in the harbor in decades.

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A West Baltimore man said he feared for his life when he tried to help a 67-year-old woman being attacked by pit bulls and the dogs turned on him. Police say one woman was killed and two people were injured when stray pit bulls attacked people last weekend.

The Dali was scheduled to head from Seagirt to Norfolk Friday, but that has been bumped to next week. The latest tentative estimate for when the ship will be moved is at noon Monday.

Harford County District Judge Kerwin A. Miller Sr. said he agreed with the state’s attorney that Victor Martinez-Hernandez, 23, posed both a danger to the community and a flight risk.

Cooling centers are being opened across the region this weekend, offering air-conditioned spaces and water. You can check this map to find one in your area.

A wave of extreme heat has come to the region. Here’s how to stay safe.

The Maryland Department of Transportation hopes three summer "quick build" projects, including one on a stretch of Route 1 in Howard County, can inform future traffic and pedestrian safety efforts.

A Salvadoran immigrant was flown back to Maryland Thursday to be tried in the rape and killing of Harford County mother Rachel Morin last summer.

The National Weather Service for Baltimore-Washington has issued an excessive heat warning for Saturday. The weather service said dangerous heat is possible with heat index values between 105-110 degrees.

The longtime head of the state office responsible for nursing home inspections will retire, officials announced about a month after a major lawsuit against the agency.

Darrell David Rice, a computer programmer from Columbia who was arrested in 2001, was charged with capital murder, and authorities alleged that he selected the victims because of his hatred of women and gay people.

Emergent BioSolutions, known for botching millions of doses of COVID vaccine, will exit Baltimore entirely with sale of another plant.