Community issues

Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five, was killed on Aug. 5, 2023. Her death received national attention and became an issue in the 2024 presidential election.

New complaints allege that staff at Calvert Hall College High School “repeatedly ignored credible reports of sexual abuse.”

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

George Levi Russell, Jr., the first African American to sit on the Circuit Court in Maryland, died Saturday, friends and family said. He was 96.

The Howard County Police Department is establishing a full-time unit of officers to three areas in Columbia: the Merriweather District, The Mall in Columbia and Columbia Lakefront.

In the video, Berrios’ daughter pleaded for the ICE officers to leave her mother alone, just before one agent shattered the car door window and placed the mother in handcuffs.

James Weems Jr., 59, of Towson, was found guilty in 2024 in Baltimore County Circuit Court of sexual abuse of a minor, rape and displaying obscene matter to a child.

A Randallstown man pleaded guilty to paying about $20,000 in bribes to steer state contracts to his company.

The suspect, identified as Cody Balmer, 38, was arrested nearby later in the day, police said.

Businesses across Charles County and neighboring Prince George’s County brace for the impact of Trump's federal cuts.

Dozens of transportation-related bills passed in the recent General Assembly session that will impact the ways Marylanders move around the state, and plenty of notable ones didn’t.

A 16-year-old boy was fatally shot in Arbutus on Sunday, Baltimore County Police said.

The Trump administration is doubling down on its decision not to tell a federal court whether it has plans to repatriate a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported last month.

Although some see space tourism as a small step for man, others see it as a giant vanity project for celebrities and the ultra rich.

When Jill Smokler awoke at Johns Hopkins Hospital last year, her skull sealed shut with a jagged seam of staples, her first response was wry laughter.

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A letter writer asks whether historical fiction titles, especially those with racial themes, were targeted in the Naval Academy’s purge of 400+ books from its library.

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.

In the decade since Gray’s arrest, Baltimore insists there has been a transformation in policing, but some residents aren’t so sure.

The prosecution rested its case against Victor Martinez-Hernandez who’s standing trial on charges of first-degree murder and related offenses in the killing of Rachel Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five, on Aug. 5, 2023.