Harford County

The Baltimore Banner live blog will provide real-time updates from the Rachel Morin trial as the proceedings unfold.

Prosecutors continued presenting their case against Victor Martinez-Hernandez, who’s standing trial on charges of first- and second-degree murder, first- and second-degree rape, third-degree sex offense, and kidnapping.

Chef Zack Trabbold, chef of The Local On The Avenue in White Marsh, is opening a seafood restaurant in Fallston.

Violet Custer, 14, and Faye McMahon, 19, testified on Friday in Harford County Circuit Court during the trial of Victor Martinez-Hernandez.

A jury was selected on Wednesday in the trial of a man who’s accused of killing Rachel Morin in 2023 on the Ma & Pa Heritage Trail in Bel Air.

Harford County State’s Attorney Alison Healey said a sequestered jury is an “almost impossible task in 2025.”

Victor Martinez-Hernandez, 24, is set to stand trial starting on Tuesday in Harford County Circuit Court on charges of first- and second-degree murder, first- and second-degree rape, third-degree sex offense and kidnapping.

Three years in, the Blueprint has become synonymous with budget cuts, leaving school leaders reconsidering how they spend every dime.

Parts of Maryland, including Baltimore, will be under a fire weather watch Wednesday due to dry conditions and heavy winds, officials said.

Dozens of dead black vultures were found over the weekend near a park in Harford County, prompting bird flu testing and shuttering nearby trails.

Brian Delen, 48, was convicted last November of second-degree assault and use of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence.

From paczki to king cake to bombolino, eating sweet, fried dough just before Lent is a tradition that spans the globe. Here are the Baltimore bakeries where you can find your Fat Tuesday fix.

The Ravens won’t compete in Super Bowl LIX as many had hoped, but Marylanders can still root for a local: Abigail, a Labrador retriever mix, is competing in Puppy Bowl XXI.

State-funded improvements to Ripken Stadium are getting underway in Aberdeen, although the minor league baseball team that plays there, the IronBirds, faces an uncertain future.

Parts of Maryland are under a winter weather advisory until 10 a.m. Thursday as freezing rain and sleet showered the area overnight and into the early morning.

High egg prices “aren’t going to drop overnight” as bird flu spreads. Restaurants and farmers are nervous.

Harford County Circuit Judge Yolanda L. Curtin said she believed that the jury selection process is adequate to address any concerns.

The Harford County State’s Attorney’s Office recently dropped the cases against Regina Jones, the former principal of Aberdeen Middle School, and Tanya Johnson, a paraeducator, after determining that “the facts do not support conviction.”

The longest-serving state’s attorney in Harford County history died at his home Friday morning of cardiac arrest.

Dion Guthrie, 86, of Joppa, a Democrat, claimed in a lawsuit filed in Harford County Circuit Court that he did not actually plead no contest to one count of theft between $1,500 and $25,000 because a judge needed to consent to that action.