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Baltimore will buy the liens of more than 450 owner-occupied homes this fall in an effort to protect the properties from tax sale, Mayor Brandon Scott announced Thursday.
- Del. Erek Barron of Prince George's County would be the first Black person to hold the post, and the first Democrat in 20 years.
- Major League Baseball said Wednesday that it wants to team with Maryland to guard against the rigging of “particularly risky” bets — such as whether a game’s first pitch will be a ball or a strike — as the state wraps up writing rules for sports betting.
- Following the first of two canvasses from three Annapolis primary elections completed Wednesday, two City Council incumbents extended their leads and a third race narrowed to within 13 votes, unofficial election results showed.
- Preliminary results for the contested primaries in Ward 3, Ward 4 and Ward 8 showed two incumbents and one challenger taking early leads.
- Attorney Robbie Leonard said he will run against Baltimore County’s incumbent State’s Attorney Scott Shellenberger in next June’s Democratic primary, marking the first time Shellenberger has been challenged in a primary since he was first elected in 2006.
- Baltimore City Council approved a bill Monday that will create a security deposit grant program for low-income city residents — a compromise reached among various city officials after a bill mandating alternative security deposit options was rejected earlier this year.
- Continued desire to close a persistent transportation funding gap between the Washington and Baltimore regions characterized the kickoff of a series of virtual briefings for local officials on the Hogan administration’s draft six-year, $16.4 billion statewide transportation budget.
- Baltimore’s spending board is poised to approve a settlement with former Baltimore Police Officer Thomas Cassella to close out a defamation lawsuit he filed against the city and former Commissioner Darryl De Sousa.
- Maryland transitioned to cashless tolling in 2020. The rollout has been fraught with glitches, including overbilling customers, according to a state audit.
- Christa Beverly, a longtime civil rights lawyer and the wife of former Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker III, died Saturday, he said. She was 61.
- Patrick Henry McCormally, an assistant Maryland assistant attorney general who specialized in consumer protection issues, died Sept. 12 of injuries from a motorcycle accident. He was 41 and lived in Mount Washington.
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Capitol Police request National Guard if needed ahead of rally defending those arrested after Jan. 6
The Capitol Police have requested the support of the National Guard on Saturday if events get violent at a rally of demonstrators supporting those arrested in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. - Annapolis Pride sent a questionnaire to 17 candidates running for Annapolis mayor and city council to poll their opinions on various issues that impact the LGBTQ+ community.
- The returned ballots amount to just under 8% of those ballots mailed to 5,811 Democratic voters in Ward 3, Ward 4 and Ward 8 about two weeks ago. Voters can return their ballots to any dropbox in the city until polls close at 8 p.m. on Election Day.
- Baltimore City Health Commissioner Dr. Letitia Dzirasa, a reserved, mild-mannered pediatrician, found herself in the driver’s seat of a vulnerable city’s response to a pandemic.
- A group of companies, developers and attorneys associated with major development projects in Eastport have thrown their financial support behind the Democratic City Council challenger in Ward 8 ahead of Tuesday’s city primary election.
- The Talbot County Council on Tuesday adopted an immediate resolution to move the Confederate Talbot Boys statue from outside the courthouse to a private park in Virginia.
- An Eastern Shore seafood company and its owner have pleaded guilty to employing undocumented workers and manipulating a seasonal foreign worker program so that many employees received substandard wages, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
- St. Michaels Media, also known as Catholic-focused news outlet Church Militant, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court on Monday challenging Baltimore City's decision to bar the event. While the dispute awaits a court decision, a temporary restraining order granted late Tuesday will allow Church Militant to continue planning for the rally.
- James T. Brady, former chairman of the University System of Maryland’s board of regents and secretary of the state’s Department of Business and Economic Development, died Friday in Aldie, Virginia. He was 81.
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- Cases are starting to circle through soccer teams and history classes, cafeterias and school buses, but parents and students say they’re overjoyed to be returning to full-capacity school for the first time in months, albeit with a COVID-19 storm cloud overhead.
- A protégé of iconic violinist Itzhak Perlman, the 25-year-old is celebrating a new album and planning future horizons.
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Shooting at Tennessee grocery store leaves one person dead and 12 others injured, shooter found dead
A shooting at a Tennessee grocery store left one person dead and 12 others injured Thursday afternoon, and the shooter was subsequently found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound at the store east of Memphis, authorities said.
- Anthony 'InkBoy' Chestnut finds that clients who flock to his downtown Baltimore shop are often in search of someone who will understand the techniques and tools that tattooing Black skin requires.
- A Baltimore jury convicted Cleveland DeShields Sr. Wednesday of murder for fatally beating his wife after a night of drinking in November 2018.
