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Just days before his second New York Fashion Week collection, Bishme Cromartie spoke to The Baltimore Banner about his latest collection and his recent appearance on “Sherri,” the Daytime Emmy Award-winning talk show.

The media and political agenda of The Baltimore Sun’s new owner is sparking fears about what his model for local ownership will mean for the newspaper, Isaiah Jerome Lewis Poole, a journalist and nonprofit communications executive, says.

The dispatch recording provides some new insight into a domestic assault investigation involving Zay Flowers that reached police departments in two states.

One of the six officers charged after the death of Freddie Gray in 2015 has been promoted to oversee the Public Integrity Bureau of the Baltimore Police Department.

Police in Howard County are investigating after a 67-year-old man was found dead inside his home.

Four students were taken to the hospital to be evaluated for injuries on Thursday after a bus skidded off the road in Columbia and turned on its side in a field.

Federal authorities’ plan to feature Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill has years to go before making its way into Americans’ wallets.

It’s winter, and your plants are not OK. Baltimore plant stylist and author Hilton Carter has tips to get your plants through the winter.

Martha Shimkin, the recently named director of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay Program Office, takes the helm at a critical time for the 41-year-old partnership. The program is on track to meet about half of 31 outcomes identified in 2014.

Baltimore is well-suited to help solve what Gov. Wes Moore has called a housing crisis in Maryland, says Annie Milli, executive director of Live Baltimore.

A promoter of cryptocurrency known as “Bitcoin Rodney” was arrested with a one-way ticket to the United Arab Emirates, according to court documents, and faces federal criminal charges in Maryland.

Baltimore County Police are investigating the wide receiver in an alleged assault in the Owings Mills area.

Officer Eric Payton, 46, of Parkville, stole an envelope containing more than $100 from Soy Transportation Inc. on Belair Road near Southern Avenue in Northeast Baltimore on Sept. 20, 2023.

Baltimore man held without bond, but judge concedes case could be wrongly charged

The EPA is considering a $45 million cleanup of 60 acres of Bear Creek.

These former Glen Burnie High prom dates rekindled their relationship decades later after reconnecting on Facebook. A diagnosis changed their journey.

The Baltimore Banner compiled a brief guide for benefit theft victims to know their rights and get full reimbursement.

Mosby, 44, a Democrat who served as the city’s top prosecutor from 2015-2023, was found guilty on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt of one count of making a false statement on a loan application.

A federal judge concluded Wednesday that there was no evidence Atlas Restaurant Group “intentionally discriminated” against a woman and her son at Ouzo Bay.