Community issues

The Baltimore Banner had moved to unseal the document.

The bill comes in response to the death of Pava LaPere, 26, who was killed in September

Darryl Doles, 53, of Coldstream Homestead Montebello, cried and wiped tears throughout his sentencing before Baltimore Circuit Judge Jeannie J. Hong on Wednesday on charges of attempted first-degree murder, second-degree assault and hate crimes.

Johns Hopkins University has opened an investigation into international affairs professor Yascha Mounk after journalist Celeste Marcus accused him of rape over the weekend.

The airline says it’ll begin using a redesigned aircraft interior featuring new seats in early 2025.

First responders rescue man who jumped into Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.

Employees of Fells Point Tavern have filed a complaint with the Maryland Department of Labor and have attempted to file one with the Better Business Bureau

The recent trial yielded only a legal answer, not the one Maurtice Brown and his family are still looking for.

The National Aquarium should be applauded for setting a new standard for aquariums with its dolphin sanctuary plan, a consultant for the Whale Sanctuary Project says.

The zoning hearing marked a tense restart to an 11-year dispute between Royal Farms and Northeast Baltimore communities. The chain, known for its fried chicken, is asking the Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals for permission to build a gas station near a busy intersection at 5901 Harford Road.

Mosby, 44, a Democrat who served two terms in office from 2015-2023, stood trial in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt on two counts of making a false statement on a loan application.

HONfest and the Charles Village Festival are ending, but there’s still plenty for Baltimoreans to look forward to this spring and summer.

The change comes after a Baltimore Banner investigation revealed that DHS was shortchanging welfare theft victims for months, violating state law.

The supergroup Kiewit/J.F. Shea Joint Venture has been awarded a $1 billion-plus contract to bore two new tunnel tubes underneath West Baltimore. The project will ultimately replace a 151-year-old passenger rail tunnel that is a major bottleneck in the Northeast Corridor.

A man was sentenced Tuesday for the killing of a 13-year-old girl in November 2022, the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office said.

Rachel D. Graham will succeed Donna Drew Sawyer, who resigned from the position as CEO of the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, or BOPA, last January.

Investigators continue searching for the killer of Rachel Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five whose body was found along a Harford County hiking trail last August. Authorities have had no recent breaks in the case, and those left behind are trying to figure out how to go on without her.

After Erica Griswold became Anne Arundel County’s first Black register of wills, she was hailed as a hero. Now she faces theft and other charges related to allegations that she cashed a $6,645 check that was made out to her but was intended for her office to cover inheritance taxes.

Council Chair Deb Jung said prior to the vote that the issue of a cease-fire was not one that should taken up by local government. Just before the vote, Calvin Ball send a letter to President Biden calling for a bilateral cease-fire and the release of all hostages.

The unregistered drone piloted by a Pennsylvania man disrupted the playoff game between the Ravens and the Kansas City Chiefs.