Politics

Yvette Lewis, the chair of Maryland’s Democratic Party, will step down from her role effective Oct. 6.

Federalsburg, a small town on the Eastern Shore, elected its first Black government officials for the first time in its 200-year history on Tuesday.

The Baltimore City Council may be asked to vote on an alternative redistricting map by the end of the week, a hasty timeline forced by the city’s charter provision on redistricting.

With the return of Baltimore’s marquee Artscape festival now in the books, a Baltimore City Council committee voted in favor of restoring $581,334 Tuesday to the beleaguered Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts.

The Anne Arundel County Food Bank takes its new mobile food pantry on the road to Lothian and Harwood.

Bernard L. Berkowitz, who headed economic development during the administration of former Baltimore Mayor William Donald Schaefer, died Sept. 21 at his Northwest Baltimore home. He was 96.

Over 300 bills passed during the 2023 legislative session, Gov. Wes Moore’s first, will go into effect on Oct. 1.

Baltimore Police officer Eric Payton, 46, who is a 7-year veteran of the department assigned to the Northeast District, has been charged with misconduct in office and theft and suspended without pay stemming from “actions which took place” on Wednesday, according to a news release.