Community issues

Baltimore Banners, a volunteer-run ice hockey team, was founded in 2003 and aims to teach on- and off-ice skills to at-risk youth in East Baltimore.

Next week the Board of Estimates will be asked to approve a three-year contract for Acting Police Commissioner Richard Worley, who is scheduled to have a confirmation hearing before the City Council the following day.

A community wealth fund would provide a financial lifeline for Baltimore’s working poor, says a union leader for this region’s service workers.

Chesapeake Bay Bridge anxiety is real — and passed down through generations. (Mothers, am I right?)

When a lifelong soccer player became a full-time wheelchair user, she found comfort in adaptive sports.

High schoolers in Howard County will get a bit less sleep after Sept. 20.

A roundup of recent discoveries and images from the James Webb Space Telescope.

Chris Bendann, 39, could not agree to the stringent conditions of release that U.S. District Chief Judge James K. Bredar set in the case.

John Willie Kennedy has pleaded guilty to charges related to the 2017 fatal shooting of Meiko Locksley.

Baltimore Circuit Judge Barry G. Williams had convicted April Gaskins, 55, of Southwest Baltimore, of reckless endangerment and firearm access by a minor, after a bench trial.

Transportation 101 offers a free six-week dive into how to advocate for better transportation in your community.

Bishme Cromartie was one of three Marylanders with “Project Runway” ties who participated in the country’s most iconic fashion event, New York Fashion Week, in September 2023.

Howard County government funding priorities and questionable school system budget management are to blame for chronic school bus service failures, Hiruy Hadgu, president of Progressive Democrats of Howard County, says.

Lawmakers, public defenders, police, prosecutors and state officials faced gathered in a marathon video meeting on Wednesday to confront Maryland’s problems with juvenile crime head-on.

The wrenching testimony from the mother of a victim halted the hearing, which had been focused on a breakdown in police-community relations.

Lawrence Lacks, eldest son of Henrietta Lacks, “held on through illness” to get justice for his mother. He died weeks after a settlement with a company that used her HeLa cell line.

Federal authorities have claimed the CCC gang was behind 18 killings and 28 attempted killings between 2015 and 2020.

Baltimore Police have arrested a 15-year-old boy and are charging him with 44 offenses in connection to the fatal shooting in July at a block party in the Brooklyn Homes housing project of South Baltimore.

Overnight into Wednesday, heavily armed law enforcement officers searched for the fugitive through a night of downpours and thunder.

Days after the shooting, the Housing Authority of Baltimore City cut the tree down, but the camera now faces a different direction.