Community issues

Ghost guns have become more common on American city streets, especially so in Baltimore. From June 2021 to the end of 2023, ghost guns were the most commonly recovered make of firearm in Baltimore.

The plan, which officials said was the result of two years of consideration, would cut 40 of its 61 parishes, resulting in the closure of several historic landmarks and once-thriving worship sites.

The Hanover Street Wetlands Project is expected to be completed by the fall of 2025.

Already stressed local truck drivers are feeling overworked and fearful after the collapse of the Key Bridge — which some said they nearly got caught up in.

At recent news conference, Bates, a Democrat, said, “From here on out, if you are found to be contributing to the delinquency of a minor child, my office will look to charge you to hold you accountable.”

As Baltimore households continue to get smaller, a commitment to building more housing to accommodate this trend is the best way to turn around the city’s declining population, say a consultant on vacancy and blight reduction and the president of an organization working to help rebuild Baltimore neighborhoods.

Taylor Swift invited Baltimore’s own Josh Charles, who played Knox Overstreet in the 1989 hit “Dead Poets Society” to be a part of the video.

Robert Lookingbill, 71, is also a town commissioner and faces two felony counts.

One home was destroyed and two others suffered moderate damage after an explosion and fire in Essex Saturday night.

Federal prosecutors allege Peter Ajak was seeking to overthrow the government of South Sudan to take power.

Baltimore Police Officer Anthony Ward, 36, was driving a work van when he crashed into a flatbed tow truck.

Economic response and recovery plans following the Key Bridge collapse must take into account the impact on Maryland agriculture, the state’s largest industry, says Belinda Burrier, a member of the Maryland Farm Bureau Board of Directors and co-owner of Burrier’s Linganore Farm.

Rabbi Levi Raskin led them through all the steps during their “Model Matzah Factory” field trip. The major Jewish holiday commemorates the exodus of ancient Israelites from slavery in Egypt, as recounted in the Torah. Observant Jews avoid leavened grains for Passover, which starts Monday evening.

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Mr. Trash Wheel, the googly-eyed, solar-powered trash interceptor who sits where the Jones Falls meets the Inner Harbor, has been gobbling garbage for 10 years.

Mourners gathered Friday night to celebrate the life of Owings Mills resident Maynor Suazo Sandoval, who died in the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

A temporary channel northeast of the main shipping lanes on the Patapsco River has been established and will provide limited access to the Port of Baltimore for commercially essential vessels, the Unified Command, which is overseeing the salvage work on the river, said Friday night.

From tree plantings to free transit, here are ways you can celebrate the earth this week.

Five young men were shot Friday afternoon when gunfire broke out in a park in Greenbelt, a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C., according to police.

A far-right extremist group leader was sentenced on Friday to more than five years in prison for repeatedly assaulting police officers with makeshift weapons during a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol over three years ago.