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Everything you need to know ahead of the 149th Preakness Stakes.

A Baltimore Department of Public Works employee was injured in a shooting Friday morning in West Baltimore.

Read former Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s application for a presidential pardon.

Anne Arundel County held a workshop Thursday to hear from the public on repurposing the Crownsville Hospital Center site. Former employees and county residents stressed the importance of acknowledging and preserving its dark history, including the mistreatment of Black patients.

The public defender’s office described “horrific” and unsanitary conditions at the jail.

Aaron Brown, 19, pleaded guilty in Baltimore Circuit Court to conspiracy to commit first-degree murder for his role in the shooting that killed two people and wounded 28 others at the Brooklyn Homes housing project on July 2, 2023.

The judge said he was “extremely disturbed” by what he read in court documents outlining the allegations.

A 19-year-old man pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the killing of a Baltimore T-Mobile store employee during a string of armed robberies last year.

Dominique Dawes, a Silver Spring native and three-time Olympian, plans to expand her gymnastics academy franchise to Columbia. She currently has two locations in Montgomery County.

Demolition of Baltimore City Community College’s downtown Bard Building is scheduled for completion in early September.

Under Armour is preparing to layoff an unspecified number of employees following a drop in sales for North America, the Baltimore-based company’s largest market.

An American accused of sexually assaulting a Pennsylvania college student in 2013 and later sending her a Facebook message that said, “So I raped you,” has been detained in France after a three-year search.

Matthew Scott Banks Schlegel, 44, was arrested Thursday.

The second class of The Banner’s Emerging Leaders were honored at The Center Club on Wednesday night.

Forecasters are calling for widespread showers and thunderstorms during Baltimore’s Preakness Stakes.

Maryland state officials are moving forward on massive new contracts for prison and jail mental and medical health care, ousting a problematic contractor.

Leon Hill, 55, of Windsor Mill, said he wanted to take responsibility for his actions and understood that he needed to be held accountable for fatally shooting Elaine Jackson at a Maryland Transit Administration lot in Southwest Baltimore on Oct. 18, 2022. She was 40.

Prosecutors will not charge the Anne Arundel County Police officer who used a Taser on a man who later died.

Top federal safety and transportation officials probing the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse are testifying before Congress on Wednesday morning, giving lawmakers their second update on the ongoing investigations.