What do a Twinkie, a butterscotch candy, a ball of foil and a severed head have a common? They’re all things crows have brought to Marylanders. www.thebanner.com/baltimore/cr...

By @juliemore19.bsky.social: Crows bring gifts to some Marylanders, but murders leave their marks. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

By @juliemore19.bsky.social: A genetic disease is stealing their toddler. A blood test at birth could have saved her. (📸: @jessicagallagher.bsky.social) (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

New for @thebaltimorebanner.com -- Baltimore won a unique carveout in Purdue Pharma's massive bankruptcy restructuring plan: the city can keep suing the Sackler family for their role in the opioid crisis.

15 years ago, it looked like the effort to save the Chesapeake Bay had turned a corner. "There was a collective sense," said one longtime federal scientist, “that we had broken through." Today, he and others worry that, four decades in, the movement is losing steam: www.thebanner.com/community/cl...

High schoolers in pre-K classrooms? Whether as unpaid interns or paid aides, it's happening in Maryland. And those running preschool programs say it's a way to recruit (and then hopefully retain) a dwindling workforce as the state races to expand public pre-K www.thebanner.com/education/ea...

Follow-up article about the stop I was involved in. Our country is supposed to be better than this. #Baltimore

New story for @thebaltimorebanner.com: How a transgender symbol spray-painted near an Easton school led to hate crimes charges www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

New details from a text shared with @thebaltimorebanner.com: “The trip back home was extremely tiring,” Tran told Nash in a text message shared with The Banner. “We were in shackles the entire trip. ... I felt like we were less than animals.”

Judge orders Trump administration to end National Guard deployment in DC

By @lizbowie.bsky.social, @invisibae.bsky.social and @ajv.bsky.social: School buses for every Baltimore student seemed impossible — until now. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

The original reporting on this should be credited to bsky.app/profile/juli...

Dali crew members are STILL in Baltimore. Here's why:

Updated article by @juliemore19.bsky.social www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

Exclusive to the @thebaltimorebanner.com: Johns Hopkins has spent nearly double this year on federal lobbyists. The university has spent $1.3 million so far, with money going directly to an associate of Trump to lobby to the Executive Office of the President: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

Morgan State University President David Wilson got a mysterious phone call at the start of October: a confidential high profile donor was interested in giving to the HBCU. Two weeks later, $63 million was in the university’s bank account. Here’s what happened: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

“My plan is to go out and make ICE as uncomfortable as possible but not break any laws.” @juliemore19.bsky.social with the tale of a modern-day Paul Revere.

ICE is coming! Baltimore’s scooter-riding ‘Paul Revere’ warns immigrants.

By @juliemore19.bsky.social. ICE is coming! Baltimore’s scooter-riding ‘Paul Revere’ warns immigrants. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

This story is the kind of reporting that brought me to The Banner. When @kris10griffith.bsky.social and I found out we were both interested in the efficacy of inspector general oversight of school systems, it was a dream collaboration. Check it out: www.thebanner.com/education/k-...

New: Correctional staff at a Western Maryland prison shut off the water to a mentally ill man’s cell, then allowed him to suffer for eight days before he finally died of dehydration, according to a recent court filing. www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

By @mercohn.bsky.social: Why Maryland is drawing thousands from other states seeking abortions: tinyurl.com/4ansjxyd (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

Do you ever get so overwhelmed at work you need to take a walk to clear your head? It happens to kids, too, which is why they should go outside, play and learn naturally from the world around them. Click for the cute pictures, keep reading for the brain science www.thebanner.com/education/ea...

I had such an incredible time (🥁) visiting the Renaissance Festival and talking with vendors there for this story. The Maryland Renn Fest is a true institution, and one of the most popular festivals like it in the country. It's also, as I found out, one of the most desirable for vendors.

There's a university in Baltimore with a huge archive of ghostly things. Who knew! 👻

By @juliemore19.bsky.social: There’s a ghost town buried under Loch Raven. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

NEW INVESTIGATION: Investors have spent years falling in love with the 'debt service coverage ratio' loan. The loans have allowed access to vast sums with few conditions, and now make up 40% of mortgage dollars in Baltimore. Now they're going bad. (Story below ⬇️)

The child care scholarship is the main way Maryland families get help with child care. Since many can't afford it otherwise, day cares and preschools rely on vouchers to fill spots. So what happens when the program gets frozen - and doesn't come back when predicted? www.thebanner.com/education/ea...

Great @thebaltimorebanner.com story on the business of music festivals

For more than 60 years, the dense forests of Patuxent River State Park have cradled a secret. Vines and tall grasses hid the homes of a Black family who triumphed over the horrors of slavery, built a thriving community and launched the AFRO-American newspaper chain. buff.ly/5h0i22V

Enoch George Howard bought his freedom, and hundreds of acres of Montgomery County land. Read about this remarkable Marylander, and the new state park that will tell his story. Beautifully written by @juliemore19.bsky.social @thebaltimorebanner.com www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

UPDATE: A midshipman was shot at the U.S. Naval Academy and flown by helicopter to a hospital on Thursday, according to a law enforcement source. www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

IT'S CENSUS DAY at @thebaltimorebanner.com! The release of new 1-year ACS data told us a lot about the changing demographics and living experiences of counties across the country. Here's what we learned about Maryland:

Locust Point residents have had to live all summer with a constant hum, about the volume of a vacuum cleaner. How does their neighborhood compare to the loudest places in Baltimore? We took to the streets (with a mic!) to find out! www.thebanner.com/community/cl...

Head Start, the child tax credit, extra English help: These are all things undocumented and kids in mixed-status families stand to lose under the 2nd Trump admin. Anti-immigrant rhetoric & increased deportations are eating away at kids' mental health www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/ea...

Tubing down the Gunpowder River is the perfect way to spend a summer day— except when E. coli levels are soaring, as they have frequently this year. I spent time with the Gunpowder Riverkeepers to see how they’re working to protect the river. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/gunpowder-ri...

Heat is the deadliest form of extreme weather, responsible for thousands of deaths annually. Read more in @thebaltimorebanner.com w/ @adampwillis.bsky.social

At least 9 people have died from heat-related illness this year in Maryland so far — more than the entirety of some recent past summers. 27 died of heat in Maryland in 2024 — but only 4 by this point in the summer.

In 2008, a teenage boy killed his parents and brothers in this Cockeysville home. In 2023, a man shot a police officer there, touching off a 3 day manhunt. Now the house is about to hit the market. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/real...

Prosecutors won’t retry Severna Park Elementary teacher in sex abuse case. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

New: Before fatally shooting a 70-year-old woman, BPD officers breached the door of her home, where she was inside and reportedly armed with a knife. De-escalation experts and the department's own crisis response policy call that action into question. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/cr...

Baltimore sheriff probes courthouse employee for allegedly inviting ICE to detain someone, @conarck.bsky.social reports. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

NEW: A Frederick police officer, under investigation since August 2024, was charged today with possessing child sexual abuse material, solicitation of a minor and more.

By Sapna Bansil: Maryland’s oldest rural gay bar — and one of the last — is a log cabin in the woods. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

Former Greater Grace pastor indicted for child sexual abuse, lawsuits pile up, Jessica Calefati, @juliemore19.bsky.social and @justinfenton.bsky.social report. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

NEW: Baltimore students told about their experiences with violence and harassment on the way to school in the state's only district without yellow bus service for middle and high schoolers. @lizbowie.bsky.social and I on what students are facing every day www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-...

New: When Baltimore residents surrounded an ICE agent's vehicle after he arrested two members of their community, he called 911. Baltimore Police, who are by policy prohibited from immigration enforcement, cleared his way. Was it their "duty" or a "test?" www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/cr...

As part of his plan to close the racial wealth gap, Moore announced on Juneteenth his plans to prioritize some communities for grants and loans and thousands more cannabis pardons. w/ @pwoodreporter.bsky.social Story: t.co/iNpBoSyN0V

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

Protesters rally after Severna Park Elementary teacher found not guilty of most child sex abuse charges. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)