Community issues

When William Hicks made a plea to help keep his record store from closing Friday, the outpouring of support was immediate.

The Powerball jackpot has surged to $905 million for Monday’s drawing. Plenty of people are playing and bringing different strategies to the game.

This stop in Baltimore is one of 12 in North America on their worldwide tour that features 88 shows across five continents.

BTS will bring its “Arirang” World Tour to M&T Bank Stadium on Monday and Tuesday.

The B&O Railroad Museum changed its name to the National Museum of Railroad History & Innovation, and railroad fans are not pleased.

Since April, staff at the century-old St. Paul’s By-the-Sea Episcopal Church has used a couple dozen bunk beds to shelter people who have nowhere else to go.

Sheppard Kellam, a former chair of the mental health department at the Johns Hopkins University, died July 11. He was 95.

The weekend ahead is expected to be a hot and sticky one in Baltimore.

Here are seven independent, locally owned Ocean City eateries that are proven winners for both your belly and your wallet.

A Baltimore Heritage volunteer got curious about the number of Black people buried in Baltimore’s Green Mount Cemetery. Her research resulted in a new tour that kicks off Aug. 15.

Bodycam and dashcam footage released by state officials Friday shows a Montgomery County man’s roughly 20-minute interaction with police at a bus stop in Gaithersburg that turned fatal.

Baltimore Police this week said they had arrested a suspect in a fatal stabbing near Lexington Market, and were searching for a suspect in a fatal shooting in Pigtown.

DeAngelo McRoy was convicted of first-degree murder, use of a firearm in commission of a felony, armed carjacking and armed robbery in October in connection with the death of Delondre Sawyer.

The driver, 41-year-old Charles Glenroy Smellie Jr. of Forestville, was the sole occupant of a white BWM 330i, according to a news release from the Maryland Department of State Police.

Maryland regulators approved a much-delayed transmission line upgrade Friday that’s needed to retire the state’s last operating coal plant.

Human rights advocates are sounding alarms over the detainment of Baltimore resident Christina Pasion in the Philippines.

Body camera footage obtained by The Banner from the incident gives a small window into how the city’s officers respond to incidents involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, and how little the Police Department can do.

Republican lawmakers are suing the state’s elections board to stop a ballot question on congressional redistricting from appearing before Maryland voters in November.

After rushing to lock down 6,000 signatures by Monday — equal to 1% of registered Baltimore County voters — only half of the independent candidates who initially filed to run for office in the county will be on November’s ballot.

A West Baltimore family says their 3-year-old Shiba Inu was stolen from their front yard in broad daylight Tuesday.