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Alex Mann

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Alex Mann covers Anne Arundel County for The Baltimore Banner. Before joining The Banner, Alex was a reporter at The Baltimore Sun for more than four years, most recently covering criminal justice. He was a 2023 finalist for the Livingston Awards in local reporting. Earlier in his career, Alex wrote about cops and courts for The Capital in Annapolis and local government for The Carroll County Times. He is a graduate of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.

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Maryland is seeking bids to construct a towering five-story, approximately $200 million building in Annapolis to relocate the state’s two appeals courts.
Maryland seeking bids for ‘world-class’ appeals court building in Annapolis
Maryland is seeking bids to construct a towering five-story, approximately $200 million building in Annapolis to relocate the state’s two appeals courts.
The Oyster Habor Private Beach looks out on the Chesapeake Bay on Oct. 11, 2024. Oyster Harbor is a private community in Annapolis, Md.
Former Annapolis beach community president gets two years’ probation for embezzlement
Eric Epstein, 64, was accused of pilfering more than $18,000 from the beachfront neighborhood of Oyster Harbor in Annapolis. His case has divided residents of the neighborhood.
Archbishop William E. Lori in 2023. The archdiocese has spent $13.2 million on survivors since the 1980s, Lori has said.
Archdiocese of Baltimore invokes ‘charitable immunity.’ Survivors say it’s justice delayed.
Attorneys for sexual abuse survivors ask a judge to rule on the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s claim that its insurers should cover the cost of payments to any of the sex abuse claims filed in its bankruptcy case.
The Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center in Jessup, Md. is seen on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024.
Judge rips Maryland Health Department plan for psychiatric bed crisis: ‘This is about people’
An Anne Arundel County judge has ripped the Maryland Department of Health for its presentation of what he described as a woefully inadequate plan to address the state’s psychiatric bed crisis.
The Anne Arundel County Courthouse is located on Church Circle in Annapolis. It is home to the Circuit Court, the Clerk of the Court, the State Attorney's Office and other agencies.
Court tosses lone recording from Anne Arundel Orphans’ Court judge’s case
The recording at the center of the prosecution’s case against Anne Arundel County Orphans’ Court Judge Marc Knapp is not admissible at trial, a Circuit Court judge ruled Tuesday.
A March 20 job fair hosted by the Anne Arundel Workforce Development Corp. in Odenton drew scores of federal workers and contractors affected by President Trump’s sweeping cost-cutting measures.
Federal government downsizing hits close to home in Anne Arundel, survey finds
President Donald Trump’s dramatic and chaotic efforts to downsize the federal workforce are hitting close to home in Anne Arundel County, a new survey finds.
From left: Anne Arundel County Police Chief Amal E. Awad, William J. DelBagno, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Baltimore Field Office, FBI Special Agent Jonathan D. Shaffer and homicide detective Vincent Carbonaro. Law enforcement officials gathered Friday to discuss the 10-year search for the suspect in Palak Patel's killing in Hanover.
10 years after Palak Patel’s killing, her husband remains on FBI’s Most Wanted List
Anne Arundel Police and FBI officials asked for the public's help in locating Bhadreshkumar Patel, charged with fatally stabbing his wife, Palak Patel, at the Dunkin' Donuts in Hanover where they worked in 2015.
The Arundel Center in downtown Annapolis houses county government offices.
Anne Arundel council passes hotly contested redevelopment bill
Some questioned the motivations of those opposing the bill, saying they believed concerns about traffic and schools disguised racism and classism.
Exhibits in the visitor center at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park near Cambridge, detail the life of the abolitionist. The National Park Service manages co-manages the visitor center with Maryland State Parks.
National Park Service restores Harriet Tubman, slavery words to Underground Railroad website
The National Park Service restores language to webpages describing the Underground Railroad after reaction to the changes.
Traffic travels on Crain Highway at Annapolis Road in Gambrills. The County Council is debating a bill that would encourage redevelopment of older commercial properties in "critical corridors," including Route 3.
Is it traffic or ‘NIMBY and racist’? The fight over redevelopment in Anne Arundel
History, race and traffic collide in Anne Arundel County redevelopment bill debate.
An Anne Arundel County Police vehicle.
Anne Arundel County police officer indicted for 4-mile chase that left motorcyclist dead
An Anne Arundel County Police officer allegedly chased a man four miles into Howard County in August and then fled the scene when the man died in an accident.
Anne Arundel County firefighters responded to an apartment fire on Hearn Road in Annapolis that left at least one person dead on Tuesday, April 1, 2025.
Man killed in Annapolis apartment blaze was smoking on oxygen, fire officials say
A man who was smoking while using oxygen died after igniting a fire in his Annapolis apartment Tuesday afternoon, Anne Arundel County fire officials said.
The Anne Arundel County Courthouse is located on Church Circle in Annapolis. It is home to the Circuit Court, the Clerk of the Court, the State Attorney's Office and other agencies.
Anne Arundel Orphans’ Court judge was ‘aggressor’ in spat with colleague, charges say
The ethical charges filed by the Commission on Judicial Disabilities in February were made public last week.
Morgan Sloan (left) and Zack Yeatman ride a boat in a flooded area near the City Dock in Annapolis on Aug. 9, 2024. A judge ruled that plans to overhaul City Dock and make it more flood resistant may go forward.
Annapolis City Dock restoration project can go forward, Anne Arundel judge rules
In an opinion docketed Sunday, Circuit Judge Michael Malone ruled in favor of the Historic Preservation Commission of Annapolis.
The Anne Arundel County Courthouse is located on Church Circle in Annapolis. It is home to the Circuit Court, the Clerk of the Court, the State Attorney's Office and other agencies.
Commission files ethics charges against chief Anne Arundel County Orphans’ Court judge
A Maryland panel that investigates wrongdoing by state judges has filed charges against Anne Arundel County Orphans’ Court Chief Judge Vickie Gipson.
Annapolis resident Shawnte Brown, at microphone, addresses a panel of public officials during a listening session at First Baptist Church in Annapolis on Tuesday night.
Annapolis community left traumatized, angry after bus stop shooting that left father dead
Annapolis Police are still searching for the man they say opened fire at a school bus stop on Clay Street in the morning of March 19.
Job seekers packed the O’Malley Senior Activity Center in Odenton on Thursday for a career for hosted by Anne Arundel Workforce Development Corporation for the scores of federal workers and contractors impacted by President Donald Trump’s sweeping cost-cutting measures.
Federal workers, contractors swarm Odenton job fair: ‘I have a wife. I have a mortgage.’
The event featured almost four dozen employers — businesses and local government agencies — and drew job seekers from throughout central Maryland, where most federal workers in the state reside.
Walt Clocker, left, and his father Tom Clocker at Green Valley Marketplace in Pasadena, which used to be Angel’s Food Market.
The charm and legacy of Angel’s Food Market, ‘part of Pasadena’
After more than half a century on Mountain Road in Pasadena, Angel’s was sold and reopened as the fourth location of Green Valley Marketplace.
An Anne Arundel County Police vehicle.
Search underway for ‘armed and dangerous’ gunman after deadly shooting at Annapolis school bus stop
The search is on for an “armed-and-dangerous” gunman who allegedly opened fire at a school bus stop on Wednesday morning in Annapolis, killing a man and wounding an 11-year-old boy in front of horrified children.
Downtown Annapolis in Anne Arundel County.
Anne Arundel County eclipses 600,000 residents as births outpace deaths
Anne Arundel County eclipsed 600,000 residents in 2024, with a slight year-over-year population increase driven by births.
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