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The Lord Baltimore Hotel was built in 1928 and some of its guests never checked out. A mannequin tends to the bar on the 19th floor.
They checked in, but they can never leave: Meet the ghosts of the Lord Baltimore Hotel
On Sept. 30, people will have a chance to encounter the spectral residents of The Lord Baltimore Hotel as a team of professional spirit seekers arrives for National Ghost Hunting Day.
The loved ones of Rachel Morin last month taped photos of her to trees and laid flowers on the grounds of the Ma & Pa Trail where she was found deceased.
Detectives pursue leads in Los Angeles, Chicago in Rachel Morin homicide investigation
Detectives investigating the slaying of Rachel Morin near a wooded trail in Bel Air last month uncovered information in Los Angeles that led them to Chicago, Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler said.
Invasive spotted lanternflies are appearing all over Maryland and pose a particular threat to grape vines.
Think spotted lanternflies are bad now? Wait until they swarm.
Seeing spotted lanternflies in your garden, along the street and scudding thorough the air? Welp, they're about to get worse. But at least they seem to be sparing Maryland's wineries this year.
The sheriff’s office has received more than 300 tips about the Rachel Morin case, a spokeswoman said. Metro Crime Stoppers is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Morin’s killer.
‘Crying in our hearts’: Rachel Morin remembered in Sunday service
Family, friends and church members remembered Rachel Morin, the Bel Air woman slain this month, at a service Sunday at Greater Grace Church in East Baltimore.
Rebekah Morin, left, and Patty Morin, center, grieve for their sister and daughter Rachel Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five who was found deceased on the Ma and Pa Heritage Trail two weeks ago.
Rachel Morin’s family, friends recall woman of ‘joy and energy’ at trailside walk
Family, friends and neighbors took part in a walk to honor Rachel Morin, who disappeared Aug. 5 after going on a walk along the Ma and Pa Heritage Trail in downtown Bel Air. Her body was found the next day.
Rick Ammazzini traveled from Winnipeg, Canada to crack the mystery safe found inside in Red Emma’s, seen here on Aug. 11, 2023.
The mysterious safe at Red Emma’s has at last been opened
After weeks of attempts, a Canadian safecracker finally opened the mysterious old safe at Red Emma’s bookstore.
The body of a woman found on a popular Maryland hiking trail has been formally identified as 37-year-old mother-of-five Rachel Morin.
Rachel Morin’s family asks for compassion amid ‘horrific news’
The family of Rachel Morin, the mother of five whose body was found along a trail in Bel Air on Sunday, says the family is planning a celebration of life and a 5K in her honor.
The body of a woman found on a popular Maryland hiking trail has been formally identified as 37-year-old mother-of-five Rachel Morin.
Rachel Morin: More than 100 tips received in ‘heinous’ killing, sheriff says
Ten investigators are working “around the clock” on the case of Rachel Morin, the 37-year-old mother of five, whose body was found near a Bel Air nature trail Sunday, Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler said Wednesday.
The body of a woman found on a popular Maryland hiking trail has been formally identified as 37-year-old mother-of-five Rachel Morin.
Sheriff: Medical examiner confirms that body found along trail was Rachel Morin, mother of 5
Rachel Morin was “a fighter” who was looking for “someone to love her in her raw form,” says friend of the slain Harford County woman.
(left) A historical picture of Gerry Koob; (right) Gerry Koob, as featured in the Netflix documentary "The Keepers"
Women say ‘Keepers’ figure was unnamed rapist in Catholic abuse report
Their stories were in the massive report on sex abuse in Baltimore’s Catholic archdiocese, but a key detail was missing: the name of one of the men who they say raped them.
The locked safe sits among books on the second floor of Red Emma's on July 6, 2023.
Can you open this mysterious safe? Red Emma’s bookstore seeks safecrackers
What lies inside the deep, dark safe on the second floor of Red Emma’s in Waverly? The bookstore’s worker-owners are inviting the public to try cracking the code.
Promotional image for The Keepers on Netflix
FBI to exhume body of Joyce Malecki, whose death was chronicled in ‘The Keepers,’ family says
Investigators have long searched for a link between the killings of Malecki and Sister Cathy Cesnik, a teacher at Archbishop Keough High School.
A police officer goes under tape that marks off Glade Court in Brooklyn after a shooting early Sunday morning.
After South Baltimore mass shooting leaves 2 dead, 28 wounded, police staffing questioned
The shooting at the annual Brooklyn Day block party is the most people shot in one incident in Baltimore since at least 2015.
Customer Lloyd Wilkins looks at the products inside Far & Dotter on Maryland's first day of recreational cannabis legalization.
Maryland blazes into recreational cannabis sales with parties, promotions and eager consumers
People thronged cannabis dispensaries across the Baltimore region Saturday, eager to see, learn about and try the products that those 21 and over with a state-issued ID are now able to purchase for recreational use.
The author's youngest child performs in the Sunshine Circus, a 3's class tradition at her preschool, as her teacher, Mrs. Else, serves as ringmaster. She graduates from preschool this week.
Here’s to the preschool teachers who wipe noses, shape souls
Preschool teachers don't have the most glamorous job, yet they undertake the Herculean task of turning toddlers into miniature members of society, people who can (usually) take turns, follow directions and not hit. As my youngest child prepares to graduate from preschool, I want to thank the teachers who have put their hearts into caring for our kids.
They're baaaaack! Black-and-white spotted lanternfly nymphs are scuttling around the Baltimore region, the harbingers of a population boom of the invasive pests. Although the bugs have been slowly moving into the area over the past few years, entomologists believe this will be the first year we see them in massive numbers in the Baltimore area.
They’re heeeere. Invasive spotted lanternfly population booming in Baltimore.
Five years after they first appeared in Maryland, the population of spotted lanternflies, an invasive insect native to Asia, is booming in the Baltimore region this spring.
Liz Murphy and Linda Malat Tiburzi say a prayer and light candles in honor of their friend and former classmate Eddie Blair
‘Satan is dead’: Survivors react to death of notorious child sex abuser John Merzbacher
“There is no safe place.” The prison death of notorious child rapist John Merzbacher, 81, brings small comfort to survivors of his abuse, who are still traumatized by the acts that went on in his classroom at the Catholic Community School of Baltimore in the 1970s.
Gavin Knupp.
After 9 months, Tyler Mailloux charged in hit-and-run death of Gavin Knupp
More than nine months after 14-year-old Gavin Knupp was killed in a hit-and-run outside Ocean City, a 22-year-old man has been charged in his death.
Michael Browning served as park manager at Gunpowder Falls State Park.
Former Gunpowder Falls park manager acquitted of rape and assault charges, convicted of misdemeanor sex offense
Michael Browning had served as manager of Maryland’s largest state park for three decades before he was arrested last fall.
Scenes from Day's Cove in Gunpowder State Park on March 21, 2023.
Jurors continue deliberations in rape trial of former Gunpowder Falls park manager
Michael J. Browning, the former longtime manager of Maryland’s largest state park, was accused of rape by two younger women who had worked at the park.
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