Community issues

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Small business owners are planning a one-day festival called Hampden Highlights for June 1 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The project is expected to generate around 800,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity each year, substantially lowering the cost of electricity at the community center.

Young people across Baltimore will find updated play spaces at some of their neighborhood recreation centers, parks and area schools, like the latest updo at the new Candy Stripe Park

Advocates are sounding alarms and asking state health officials to find funding to offset big looming cuts to services that have made living with HIV infections possible.

Gary Washington, now 63, of Baltimore, served more than 31 years on charges of first-degree murder and use of a handgun in the commission of a crime of violence in the deadly shooting of Faheem “Bobo” Ali, which happened in Baltimore on Dec. 27, 1986. Washington has always maintained his innocence.

A hydraulic salvage grab that resembles the talons of a giant bird of prey is in the process of being attached to the Chesapeake 1000 crane, another monster piece of equipment that has been an indispensable tool in the removal of thousands of tons of debris left in the Patapsco River after the Key Bridge collapsed.

“RuPaul’s Drag Race“ Season 16 finalist Sapphira Cristál will headline a show June 15 at Baltimore Soundstage, while winner Nymphia Wind will headline a show June 27 at Guilford Brewery.

Baltimore Police have arrested 59-year-old Patrick Cromwell after authorities say he told police he cut and strangled his roommate, Joseph Barranco.

Exactly four weeks after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed, salvage crews removed its biggest piece of debris to date, a section of truss weighing 560 tons, clearing the way to open the deepest and widest temporary channel by the end of this week.

Contractors for Baltimore’s Department of Public Works are investigating a 20-inch water main break in Locust Point.

Robert Lookingbill, 71, faces two felony sex abuse charges and two misdemeanor charges related to a March 1 incident in which he allegedly inappropriately touched a middle school student on the school bus he was driving.

Speaking of Anthony Hall, who was wrongfully convicted of second-degree murder and served more than 25 years in prison, Gov. Wes Moore said "there is no amount of money, nor apologies, nor acknowledgment to truly be adequate to right the wrongs that happened to this gentleman’s life."

The Banner examines a history of ship strikes on major bridges that led to collapses — and tries to answer the question of who ends up footing the bill.

Evan Woodard, the young leader of an organization called Salvage Arc, secured a lease for a space in Fells Point where, if all goes to plan, he will open the the Salvage Arc Foundation Museum and Community Center.

Maryland homeowners at risk of foreclosure can take steps to save their homes andget assistance from housing counseling agencies, a Baltimore real estate broker and credit repair specialist says.

Stella the hawk, partially blind and with a chest full of shrapnel, is loose after a tree struck her enclosure at Oregon Ridge Nature Center in Cockeysville.

The city’s attorneys alleged in court documents that Grace Ocean Private and Synergy Marine Group, the owner and manager of the container ship Dali, respectively, “saw fit to put a clearly unseaworthy vessel into the water.” The companies declined immediate comment, citing the ongoing investigations.

The lawsuit was filed Monday in Baltimore City Circuit Court against Jason Billingsley, Eden’s Homes and Property Pals. It alleges negligence, premise liability and a breach of lease.

In 2021, Frederick Williams wrote the city of Baltimore a check for more than $13,000 to pay off outstanding property taxes as part of his purchase of a home. What he got was an almost three-year legal odyssey that nearly cost him the house.