Craig Bettenhausen is terrified every time it rains.
After a storm, the junior warden knows what might await him at North Baltimore’s Church of the Guardian Angel: a putrid stench and gray-brown bubbling waste coating the basement floors.
The church had three sewage backups since August, wreaking...
Police are asking for the public’s help in locating a Baltimore man they say is wanted for attempted murder.
Baltimore police wrote on Facebook that detectives are searching for Clarence Orlando Moore Jr., 36, of the 3000 block of Mallview Road. He’s wanted on attempted murder and assault charges...
Baltimore’s spending board approved a $633,000 plan Wednesday to train thousands of election judges ahead of February’s special primary for the late Rep. Elijah Cummings’ 7th Congressional District seat.
The University of Baltimore Schaefer Center for Public Policy will teach roughly 3,000 people...
A 17-year-old boy was shot to death in Southwest Baltimore on Wednesday, police said.
Abdullah Barber-EL, who lived in the 2700 block of W. Lanvale St., was shot in the head about 1:20 p.m. one block away, in the 2800 block, police said. He was taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center,...
An independent review of the University of Maryland’s handling of a fatal adenovirus outbreak in 2018 found that the health problems that cropped up that fall were never elevated to a campus-wide emergency because different departments weren’t coordinating with each other.
The review released Wednesday...
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is turning to Baltimore’s Keiffer J. Mitchell Jr. to lobby state lawmakers to advance his agenda.
Mitchell, who had been a senior adviser to Hogan, will take on the role of chief legislative officer, advocating for the Republican governor’s bills in the Democratic-led...
A woman’s body was found burned in West Baltimore on Wednesday morning, according to police and fire officials.
The woman, whose name has not been released, was found dead with “major burns to her entire body” in the 1800 block of North Payson St. around 7:45 a.m.., according to Blair Adams, a...
A Northeast Baltimore elementary and middle school was evacuated Wednesday and after a gas leak was found by firefighters.
Baltimore City Fire spokeswoman Blair Adams said firefighters were called to Hazelwood Elementary/Middle School for a strong gas odor around 10 a.m. Firefighters then went...
ROCK HALL — Saxophonist John Thomas will return to the Mainstay with his all-star jazz quintet at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, to present the music of Blue Note legends Hank Mobley and Kenny Dorham.
Temperatures dropped to the lower 20s early Wednesday morning, tying a record low a day after a dusting of snow was reported across the Baltimore region. Another record low is possible Thursday morning.
Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport hit 22...
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is turning to Baltimore’s Keiffer J. Mitchell Jr. to lobby state lawmakers to advance his agenda.
Mitchell, who had been a senior adviser to Hogan, will take on the role of chief legislative officer, advocating for the Republican governor’s bills in the Democratic-led...
Less than a month ago, Rep. Elijah Cummings’ friend, staffer and wife each took the stage during his funeral at New Psalmist Baptist Church to eulogize the venerated congressman they loved and respected.
Former NAACP President Kweisi Mfume said his friend “defied the limits of others’ expectations.”...
A West Baltimore rowhome partially collapsed Wednesday morning after a fire consumed the building and threatened another neighboring structure.
Fire crews responded just before 7 a.m. to the unit block of S. Calhoun St. where they found heavy fire showing on the first floor. A portion of the building’s...
Shanay Waller cut a lonely figure as she crossed the quiet courtyard near her Perkins Homes apartment one recent afternoon, a nearby dumpster brimming with broken bed frames, cushionless couches and other discarded pieces of her neighbors’ disrupted lives.
Most residents at this end of her East...
