Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 1h

National Guard troops could soon be in Chicago and Memphis in Trump’s latest deployment

National Guard troops could soon land in Chicago, Memphis in Trump’s latest deployment

National Guard troops are positioned outside Chicago and they could be in Memphis by Friday as the Trump administration pushes ahead with an aggressive policy toward big-city crime, whether local leaders...

buff.ly

5 3 7

Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 1h

Nonprofit names Dundalk crisis center after 4-year-old boy killed on Christmas Eve

TurnAround has named its Dundalk center after Jacobi Sa’fiir Marcelle — a 4-year-old Rosedale boy shot to death, allegedly by his father, in a domestic violence incident on Christmas Eve last year.

buff.ly

3

Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 2h

Courthouse to close doors on East Fayette Street, move to new location in Mount Vernon

Courthouse on East Fayette Street in Baltimore to relocate

The District Court of Maryland for Baltimore City at 501 E. Fayette St. in downtown Baltimore is relocating to 500 N. Calvert St. in Mount Vernon.

buff.ly

2 2

Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 3h

Trump administration threatens back pay for furloughed federal workers

Congress, a Trump administration memo says, is able to decide whether it wants to pay the workers or not as part of legislation to reopen the government.

buff.ly

3 3 4

Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 3h

The Dish: One of Howard County’s favorite restaurants is expanding

The Walker’s Tap & Table team are preparing to launch a sister concept in Marriottsville called Barrington Tap & Table.

buff.ly

1 3

Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 4h

Before mass foreclosures, loan product looked good for Baltimore

Landlords like Dontae Carroll say Wall Street’s freeze on a specific housing loan has put their plans to purchase on hold.

buff.ly

1 7

Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 5h

7 things to do in Baltimore County: A giant pumpkin, spooky sites and fall foliage

7 Baltimore County to-dos, from spooky sites to fall foliage

Check out our list of fall-oriented events in Baltimore County for the week ending Oct. 15.

buff.ly

1 4

Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 5h

A Jane Austen fan’s guide to Baltimore

An illustrated, curated itinerary for any Janeite romantic looking to make the most of their time in Baltimore.

buff.ly

2 6

Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 6h

Delay with Amtrak’s community investments for West Baltimore tunnel causes worries about funding

Delays with Amtrak’s community investment program has locals worried about funding’s future

Canceled workshops for community partners; a rebranded logo that de-emphasizes the name Frederick Douglass; recent changes to Amtrak's tunnel project in West Baltimore have residents wondering what's...

buff.ly

1 8

Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 6h

Baltimore County to require nighttime security at hookah, vapor lounges

Owners of hookah and vapor lounges in Baltimore County are going to have to beef up security under a new county law.

buff.ly

2

Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 18h

Double stabbing in Pikesville home sparks hourslong barricade standoff

Double stabbing in Pikesville sparks hourslong barricade standoff

A stabbing at a Pikesville home Tuesday morning turned into a barricade situation, leaving two adults hospitalized and drawing a heavy police presence to the normally quiet suburb.

buff.ly

2

Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 18h

The food trucks making tacos that are worth eating on the hood of your car

The tacos worth eating on the hood of your car

In and around Baltimore you can find food truck tacos so delicious they’re worth eating on the spot.

buff.ly

1 3 15

Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 19h

Maryland’s messiest school district gets its dirty laundry aired

Somerset County’s school board accused its superintendent of insubordination. She said the board chair threatened her before she left town.

buff.ly

1 2

Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 20h

Rain, cool air could help end Baltimore’s stinky ‘pistachio tide’

Environmental groups say this has been the longest and most widespread pistachio tide in recent memory.

buff.ly

2 6

Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 23h

McCormick spice company has a $140 million tariff problem

McCormick & Company, a spice giant based in Hunt Valley, said in an earnings call Tuesday that it anticipates $140 million in annual costs associated with President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

buff.ly

1 7 12

Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 1d

Baltimore sues MoneyLion over alleged ‘digital-age payday lending scheme’

The city of Baltimore accuses MoneyLion of using misleading marketing and charging excessive fees that officials allege trap low-income residents in cycles of debt.

buff.ly

1 3

Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 1d

At the center of shutdown fight, health care is one of toughest issues in Congress

Health care is one of the most intractable issues in Congress — and a real compromise amid the government shutdown will not likely be easy, or quick.

buff.ly

3

Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 1d

How American views on Israel and antisemitism have changed since Oct. 7

The partisan split in public opinion on Israel predates the current war with Hamas, but recent polling suggests some Americans have lost sympathy with the Israelis over the course of the war.

buff.ly

1 1 4

Reposted by Baltimore Banner

rickhutzell.bsky.social @rickhutzell.bsky.social · 1d

In Maryland’s largest city, Edgar Allan Poe is the stuff of stage productions and street festivals, wreath layings and end zone dances. He is the rubber duck “Edgar Mallard Poe.” Is all this Poe-ishness real, or just another thing to sell Baltimore?
www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

Does anyone really like Edgar Allan Poe? Or is it just a Baltimore dream?

Edgar Allan Poe would have loathed and loved what Baltimore has done with him. “I have great faith in fools,” he wrote. “My friends call it self-confidence.”

www.thebanner.com

3 2 7

Reposted by Baltimore Banner

Ben Conarck @conarck.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: A few weeks ago, @muckrock.com
shared the Brady list for Baltimore County. Scanning it, I noticed the police chief was on there. I then spent weeks trying to figure out why. But no one — not the state's attorney, nor the police department — is explaining it. www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

Baltimore County’s police chief is on a list of cops with credibility concerns

Robert McCullough, the Baltimore County Police Department chief, appears on a list of law enforcement officers whose potential credibility concerns require disclosure to defense attorneys if they’re c...

www.thebanner.com

39 77

Reposted by Baltimore Banner

Hayes Gardner @hayesgardner.bsky.social · 1d

They tried the ritzy out-of-town developers. They tried local ones. They even tried breaking up the quagmire that is the "Superblock" into bite-size parcels.

All failed. Then, it burned.

What's next for the stagnant development?

w/ @emilyopilo.bsky.social www.thebanner.com/economy/supe...