CURRENT EDITION: baltimore (none)🔄 Loading BlueConic...EDITION HISTORY: No changes tracked
🔵 BlueConic: ___🍪 Cookie: ___ UNKNOWN🔗 Query: ___✏️ Composer: ___

National news

    Gunnar Henderson’s wrist is healed, and with it, Orioles prospect proves there’s no need to worry
    Also: Ramón Urías couldn’t play for Mexico in World Baseball Classic. So instead, he’s their biggest fan.
    Gunnar Henderson (2) swings for the ball at LECOM Park during the third inning of a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates on 2/28/23. The Baltimore Orioles lost to the Pirates, 7-4, in their Florida Grapefruit League matchup.
    Sexual assault reports increase at Naval Academy, other military colleges
    Of 155 students reporting assaults during the 2022 school year, students at the U.S. Naval Academy reported 61 — nearly double the school’s total for the previous year.
    FILE - An entrance to the U.S. Naval Academy campus in Annapolis, Md., is seen Jan. 9, 2014. Reported sexual assaults at the U.S. military academies shot up during the 2021-22 school year, and one in five female students surveyed said they experienced unwanted sexual contact, the Associated Press has learned.
    Passenger who died on flight with turbulence issues identified as Maryland woman
    HARTFORD, Conn. — A business jet may have experienced problems with its stability before encountering turbulence or some other roughness that caused the death of a passenger from Maryland who served in prominent posts in two presidential administrations, officials said Monday.
    FILE - From left, Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama, Ghana's Finance Minister Seth Terkper, Secretary of State John Kerry, and CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation Dana Hyde, participate in the Ghana Compact signing ceremony during the US Africa Leaders Summit at the State Department in Washington on Aug. 5, 2014. A business jet may have experienced problems with its stability before encountering turbulence or some other roughness that caused the death of Hyde, who served in prominent posts in two presidential administrations, officials said Monday, March 6, 2023.
    The neo-Nazi movement behind the plot to blackout Baltimore
    Sarah Beth Clendaniel, 34, and Brandon Clint Russell, 27, subscribe to a neo-Nazi ideology called accelerationism — which aims to cause society’s collapse through violent acts.
    A thwarted plot in Maryland is the latest in a string of recent attacks against critical energy infrastructure nationwide.
    People with ADHD can’t get their meds. The shortage is worsening.
    Some call dozens of pharmacies, pay hundreds of dollars or ration their medicine to avoid a decline in functioning at school or work.
    Blaire Postman, a Baltimore city resident who suffers from ADHD, demonstrates at her home how she has to ration her medication due to the possible unaffordablility or unavailablility of her meds in Baltimore City, Md. on February  12, 2023.
    John Angelos hopes for new Camden Yards lease by summer, says family has no plans to sell Orioles
    Angelos met with the media for the first time since promising to open the books last month.
    Orioles owner John Angelos speaks to the media during spring training in Sarasota, Florida
    Naval Academy renames building after Jimmy Carter
    The building that had been called Maury Hall was built and named in the early 1900s after Matthew Fontaine Maury, a naval officer and scientist who joined the Confederates.
    Former President Jimmy Carter.
    At long last, Pawnee Nation ancestral remains are returned from a Baltimore museum
    The Baltimore Banner used a database created by the investigative news site ProPublica that tracks roughly 600 federally-funded institutions — which includes museums and universities — around the country that still hold ancestral remains. One of the institutions is in Baltimore.
    Photo collage showing silhouettes of two adults and a child walking over prairie landscape, with excerpts from 1997 letter from Maryland Historical Society to the Pawnee Nation.
    Maryland, Virginia vie for new FBI headquarters
    Maryland’s members of Congress are touting potential sites in Landover and Greenbelt.
    U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin shakes hands with U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen before President Joe Biden’s visit to Baltimore on Jan. 30, 2023. Cardin, Van Hollen and U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer are among the Maryland members of Congress touting Maryland sites for a new FBI headquarters.
    So long, Taney: Bust of justice who wrote notorious Dred Scott decision removed from US Capitol
    Maryland’s congressional leaders pushed for removing Roger Taney’s bust from the Capitol and replacing it with a new work honoring the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, a champion of civil rights.
    Collage of photo of Thurgood Marshall and Supreme Court building in front of drawing of Jon Taney bust and text from the 13th Amendment of the Constitution.
    Burt Bacharach, legendary composer of pop songs, dies at 94
    Burt Bacharach, the singularly gifted and popular composer who delighted millions with the quirky arrangements and unforgettable melodies of “Walk on By,” “Do You Know the Way to San Jose” and dozens of other hits, has died at 94.
    Composer Burt Bacharach performs in Milan, Italy on July 16, 2011.
    Biden in State of the Union promises to ‘finish the job’
    The president sought to portray a nation dramatically different in positive ways from the one he took charge of two years ago.
    President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, in Washington, as Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif., applaud.
    US releases Guantanamo prisoner Majid Khan, who grew up in Baltimore
    The transfer of Khan ended an imprisonment that included torture at clandestine CIA sites and 16 years at the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
    FILE - In this photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, flags fly at half-staff at Camp Justice, Aug. 29, 2021, in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. Majid Khan, the onetime courier for al-Qaida is a free man after serving more than 16 years at Guantanamo, and surviving torture at notorious CIA "black sites." The Pentagon announced the release of Pakistan citizen Khan on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. Khan is now in Belize, after that nation reached agreement with the Biden administration to take him.
    I won’t watch the Tyre Nichols video. I already know how terrible things are.
    Some believe we as a society have an obligation to watch videos like the one depicting the death of Tyre Nichols. I can’t.
    People gather to speak out on police brutality at a rally for Tyre Nichols on the corner of North Avenue and North Charles Street on January 28, 2023.
    Memphis authorities release video in Tyre Nichols’ death
    Five police officers were charged Thursday in the killing of Nichols, a motorist who died three days after a Jan. 7 confrontation with the officers during a traffic stop. Baltimore Police were planning for potential protests after the video’s release.
    Civil rights Attorney Ben Crump speaks to RowVaughn Wells, mother of Tyre Nichols, who died after being beaten by Memphis police officers, at a news conference with in Memphis, Tenn., Friday, Jan. 27, 2023.
    How many Black governors have served in the U.S. before Wes Moore?
    A short illustrated introduction to Black governors of the United States who preceded Wes Moore.
    Former Black governors P.B.S. Pinchback, L. Douglas Wilder, Deval Patrick, and David A. Paterson.
    Commentary: Roger Taney, Thurgood Marshall and why history, symbols matter
    Americans have moved in recent years to re-examine how the nation's identity has been shaped by its history of slavery and racial discrimination. That kind of reckoning was again evident as President Biden signed a bill to remove a bust of Roger Taney from the U.S. Capitol and replace it with one of Thurgood Marshall.
    Collage of photo of Thurgood Marshall and Supreme Court building in front of drawing of Jon Taney bust and text from the 13th Amendment of the Constitution.
    Flight disruptions cascade across US after computer outage
    Thousands of flight delays and cancellations rippled across the U.S. early Wednesday after computer outage led to a grounding order for all departing aircraft by the Federal Aviation Administration.
    FILE - A Southwest Airlines jet arrives at Sky Harbor International Airport, Dec. 28, 2022, in Phoenix. With its flights now running on a roughly normal schedule, Southwest Airlines is turning its attention to luring back customers and repairing damage to a reputation for service after canceling 15,000 flights around Christmas. The disruptions started with a winter storm and snowballed when Southwest's ancient crew-scheduling technology failed.
    Rachael Ray confuses Old Bay and J.O. during interview with Mike Rowe
    “Dirty Jobs” host Mike Rowe says: “It’s just the story of how hard it is to correct a misperception once it takes hold.”
    Cap on insulin copays for many Marylanders takes effect
    Insulin copays dropped to $30 maximum per month for privately insured Marylanders and $35 for those with Medicare January 1, thanks to new state and federal laws.
    Woman holds her belly skin while applying insulin shot by an injection.
    Load More Stories
    Oh no!

    Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes. If the problem persists, please contact customer service at 443-843-0043 or customercare@thebaltimorebanner.com.