Community issues

COLUMN | In a five-day span, the Ravens made the most ambitious trade in franchise history, annulled it, got hitched to the No. 1 free-agent pass rusher and became the NFL’s villain of the moment.

Tristan King ran from a caseworker in Baltimore and has been missing since September. Brooklyn residents have seen him, but authorities can’t find him.

Ludovic Mbock, a Cameroonian immigrant and regional gaming champion who spent more than two weeks detained by ICE, was released Thursday night. His family still worries that Mbock, an openly gay man, will be deported to Cameroon, which punishes same-sex relationships.

COLUMN | The Mimi DiPietro Family Skating Center is scheduled to close forever after this season with no plan to replace it with a new indoor ice rink. The Baltimore Banners hockey team, whose existence may hinge on the dome staying open, is hosting a weekend rally in an effort to extend its life for a few more years.

Tattoo parlors around the country will sell flash designs — tattoos that are predrawn, not custom creations — at discounted prices.

Nearly every part of the United States is getting walloped by wild weather or just about to be. This forecast of extremes comes as weather whiplash already hit much of the East.

COLUMN | This is Holly Beach Farm. Minutes outside of Annapolis, it is a pocket wilderness hidden next to highways and urban centers. The state bought it for $1 and is figuring out how the public can enjoy it without loving it to death.

The University of Maryland hired a former Baltimore Police officer just months after he was accused of using excessive force during the Freddie Gray unrest, according to court documents and state officials.

In recent years, a state fund meant to finance clean energy has ballooned, making it a tempting reserve to Maryland leaders in lean budget times.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore called it “tragic.” Mayor Brandon Scott said the situation has him “pissed.” Baltimore Schools CEO Sonja Santelises is “heartbroken” because of the Tristan King story.

Baltimore City Fire personnel contained a two-alarm blaze in the St. Paul neighborhood Thursday night that sent black smoke plummeting over the city.

U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume, a native of the community, presented a check Thursday to County Executive Kathy Klausmeier.

A 28-year-old man died Thursday morning after a box truck struck him in Southeast Baltimore, police said.

Yolanda Wilkes, 42, of Hampden, is charged in Baltimore Circuit Court with accessory after the fact, concealing physical evidence and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

The same cold front that brought severe thunderstorms and power outages to the region Wednesday night is sticking around through early next week.

Jonathan Ingram, 33, of Baltimore, was shot and killed by a SWAT sniper Tuesday after officers responded to a home in the 6200 block of Park Heights Avenue for a burglary and were met with gunfire.

Howard County officials held a press conference Thursday to discuss the fatal police shooting of Alex LaMoire, a 25-year-old man with autism.

A Maryland federal judge on Thursday ordered a psychiatric evaluation to determine competency to stand trial for Ziz LaSota.

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