Community issues

Emails obtained by The Baltimore Banner offer a new window into Gov. Wes Moore’s approach to an emerging data center industry. His decision to back a controversial development in southern Maryland raises questions about how his administration can foster data centers without trodding on communities or sacrificing climate goals.

At its peak, the chain operated 14 locations across D.C., Maryland and Virginia.

M8 Beer in South Baltimore drew a crowd for the U.S. vs. Australia World Cup match on Friday.

Josue David Carranza Castellon was arrested attempting to board a flight to Honduras after fleeing a fatal hit-and-run in Gaithersburg earlier this week, Montgomery County Police said on Friday.

Jerronta Bryant was arrested and charged in connection with a robbery of $500,000 from an armored truck in 2025, Prince George's County Police said on Friday.

The Walter P. Carter Pool in the Baltimore’s Wilson Park neighborhood was closed Friday because of overnight vandalism,

Health advisories were issued for Bayside Beach, Upper Magothy Beach and Carrollton Manor after routine water quality testing showed elevated levels of enterococci bacteria that are unsafe for water contact.

Amelia Knuckey, 85, was the passenger in the Hyundai SUV that her husband, Thomas Knuckey, was driving.

A Howard County Circuit Court judge ruled in favor of allowing the eggplant and peach statues to remain on Main Street in Old Ellicott City.

These AFRAM attendees remember their experiences, both personal and professional, at the annual Baltimore festival.

The chaotic way two Baltimore parents were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement outside their daughter’s school stands in stark contrast to what their neighbors describe as their normally quiet lives.

The National Aquarium released nine formerly cold-stunned turtles named after Baltimore neighborhoods into the sea in Ocean City on Thursday.

In a stunning reversal, Luigi Mangione ‘s lawyers told a judge Thursday that he will no longer be asserting a psychiatric defense at his state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

After posing as a police officer and pulling over a Montgomery County cop in an unmarked cruiser, Melvin Andrew Pinkney Jr. was seen wearing a duty belt that carried a baton, a gun and handcuffs, according to court records obtained by The Banner.

The chief engineer of the Dali container ship said little during a hearing three days after federal prosecutors charged him with one felony count of violating the Ports and Waterways Safety Act.

Police are looking for a 33-year-old man wanted in the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old Towson University student earlier this month.

An officer who was shot during an encounter with an armed flasher has been released from the hospital.

Two projects for public water access in Anne Arundel were quickly amended out of next year’s budget. Advocates described feeling blindsided, and some officials decried the move as potentially motivated by politics.

Here are the big things officials want you to keep in mind (besides remembering to pack your sunscreen) when you head to the shore this summer.

Eastpoint Mall, one of Baltimore County’s first shopping centers, will close Aug. 31, according to tenants.