Drew Moore considers his family to be a public transportation household, with members making regular use of buses and light rail to get in and out of downtown Baltimore from their house in Mount Washington. But when light rail cars were too crowded — and few and far between — to take back after the Bruce Springsteen concert last month, Moore said he hopped on a Lime bike and pedaled a frustrating 45 minutes home.

Morgan State University’s Magnificent Marching Machine is headed to California. The Pasadena Tournament of Roses, a series of events surrounding New Year’s Eve, including college football’s Rose Bowl game, invited the university’s marching band to perform at the storied Rose Parade in 2026, the university announced during its homecoming festivities this weekend.

Prince George’s County law enforcement officials, resource providers and community advocates have seen enough of an alarming rise in domestic violence. In recent weeks, a 32-year-old mother was charged with attempted murder of her 13-year-old daughter. Separately, a mother was fatally shot by a former boyfriend while holding their 2-month-old baby. “The only way we’re going to change this narrative and make real progress in eradicating domestic violence in Prince George’s County is to make it a priority,” said Denise McCain, director of the Prince George’s County Family Justice Center, an organization that provides services for domestic violence survivors, at a police news conference Friday.

In June 2022, Angela Coleman filed an application with the Baltimore County Department of Housing and Community Development. The Owings Mills nonprofit executive wanted financial help building 22 apartment units after buying a single-acre property on Eastern Avenue near Beasley Lane in Bengies-Chase, a historically Black village in Middle River.

Collin Brady moved to Glen Burnie from Millsboro, Delaware, this year to teach middle school math with Anne Arundel County Public Schools. The 28-year-old said he loves living in Glen Burnie. With its restaurants, variety of grocery stores and proximity to sporting events, Brady is happy to call it home. “I love the vibe of Glen Burnie. Some parts are a bit rough around the edges, but overall I love living here,” Brady said.

The Port of Baltimore is expected to recover quickly and could even see a temporary spike in vessel traffic rerouting from larger ports as dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports returned to work Friday after their union reached a deal to pause their strike. The International Longshoremen’s Association suspended its three-day strike until Jan. 15 to provide time to negotiate a new contract.

Leila invites a reporter into her two-bedroom apartment at Cider Mill, an 864-unit complex in Montgomery Village, where she lives with her three school-age children in a largely African immigrant and Latino neighborhood. She walks into her tiny kitchen and fires up all four gas burners on the stove, as if to prepare a big meal. But Leila – who has asked us not to use her real name – is not cooking on this day.

Maryland’s corrections department will cancel the debt for mandatory, parole and administrative release fees, as well as drug testing fees, for people who are currently under the supervision of the agency’s parole and probation division, Gov. Wes Moore said Friday. The action will relieve administrative debt for 6,715 cases, totaling more than $13 million, the governor’s office said. “Marylanders who serve their time deserve a second chance without bearing the financial burden of recurring administrative fees,” Moore, a Democrat, said.

I moved to Hampden on the promise of jump scares. Like all snoopy reporters I know, I was curious about where I would be living and soon learned the residence once belonged to an undertaker. The man was said to have installed one of the village’s first telephones into a funeral parlor. I figured his commitment to communication and familiarity with death all but guaranteed me a haunted living arrangement.

The High Holidays will mark a particularly emotional time for Baltimore’s Jewish community. This year, the period between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur will mark one year since the deadliest single day for the world’s Jewish population since the Holocaust. The October 7 attack on Israel touched all aspects of our local Jewish community and, for many, shook our confidence in Israel as our worldwide place of safe refuge.