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The U.S. Navy on Saturday commissioned a new guided-missile destroyer named for late Michigan Sen. Carl M. Levin at the Port of Baltimore.

Marylanders were among those who traveled to Washington, D.C., on Saturday for rallies on the first anniversary of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe. v. Wade, which had protected a woman's right to an abortion for a half-century.

The measure was introduced five years after Jordan McNair, a University of Maryland football player, collapsed due to heatstroke during practice and later died.

A growing number of people are celebrating Juneteenth, which commemorates the day when the last enslaved African descendants in Texas learned they were free.

The Justice Department has found that Minneapolis police engaged in a pattern of violating constitutional rights and discriminating against Black and Native American people following an investigation prompted by the killing of George Floyd.

Brother Rahsaan Lewis revealed the death in an Instagram post on Thursday.

Johns Hopkins’ definition of lesbians as “non-men” triggered online outrage from both the right and left, labels of misogyny and even criticism from Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.

Morgan State, one of four HBCUs invited to perform at a Juneteenth event, took part in a “Battle of the Bands” to kick off the concert and celebration.

Legal actions attacking affirmative action programs threaten to halt or reverse the gains in minority business development in this region and elsewhere, says Sharon Pinder, the president and CEO of the Capital Region Minority Supplier Development Council.

Aquaria, best known for winning the 10th season of "RuPaul’s Drag Race" in 2018, will be coming to Baltimore on Thursday to DJ for a Sweet Spot Pride Party at Baltimore Soundstage.

Transportation officials warned of extensive delays and street closures and urged drivers to avoid the area. Early reports indicated that the vehicle may have been a tanker truck, but officials could not immediately confirm that. The fire was reported to be under control.

President Donald Trump's attorney M. Evan Corcoran is a former federal prosecutor and joined Silverman Thompson in March 2021 after almost four years as managing director of a global investment company.

As marijuana laws are reformed in Maryland, measures are needed to help repair the disproportionate damage the application of those laws did to Black communities and to Black men, Banner columnist E.R. Shipp says.

Virginia enacted a law last year requiring schools to have classes on gambling and its addictive potential. Similar legislation failed in Maryland and West Virginia in recent years, but they’re expected to try again.

Wetlands and streams are both very important in protecting the Chesapeake Bay, advocates said Thursday, and to lose them to development could be harmful.

U.S. Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger wants Congress to approve a clean debt ceiling increase and he opposes Republican budget proposals that he says would cut funding for programs vital to Marylanders.

The promise the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education ruling held for many in Baltimore and elsewhere stands in sharp contrast to enduring school segregation almost 70 years later, Banner columnist E.R. Shipp says.

The exhibit at Pimlico Race Course displays Secretariat's trophies from his Triple Crown wins in 1973.

The blunt-spoken Zell made a fortune in real estate but his 2007 acquisition of the Tribune Co., including some of the nation’s best-known newspapers, resulted in the media giant filing for bankruptcy.

Taylor Swift might have bad blood with one particular security guard in Philadelphia. In a viral moment, the star defended a concertgoer during the middle of her set while performing her 2014 hit “Bad Blood.” WJZ learned that the fan in question is a mom from Baltimore who teaches at an elementary school in Timonium.