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“There is a sense about him that one starts to get in this poll that he hasn’t galvanized people, that he hasn’t done en...
10/15/2025

“There is a sense about him that one starts to get in this poll that he hasn’t galvanized people, that he hasn’t done enough in their eyes, in these times.”

While a majority of Marylanders approve of the job Gov. Wes Moore is doing, they struggle to identify his achievements and offer only soft support, according to a new statewide poll from The Banner.

Whose children get to stay at Davidsonville is now among the most contentious battles in Anne Arundel’s yearlong redistr...
10/15/2025

Whose children get to stay at Davidsonville is now among the most contentious battles in Anne Arundel’s yearlong redistricting process.

Whose children get to stay at Davidsonville Elementary is now among the most contentious battles in Anne Arundel County's yearlong redistricting process.

On the tense day that followed the killing of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, an ex-midshipman at the Nava...
10/14/2025

On the tense day that followed the killing of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, an ex-midshipman at the Naval Academy allegedly posted a message on a social media app popular among the brigade.

“Honestly not that surprised I’ll be carrying out the mass ex*****on of my peers in a couple,” Jackson Elliot Fleming wrote from his home in Chesterton, Indiana, according to federal prosecutors.

They’re running 50 years after the first women were admitted to Annapolis and at a time when President Donald Trump's ad...
10/14/2025

They’re running 50 years after the first women were admitted to Annapolis and at a time when President Donald Trump's administration is denigrating the role of women in the military. It’s not only a generational shift. It feels like a response.

Mikie Sherrill. Amy McGrath. Eileen Laubacher. All Naval Academy graduates, all running for office. Fifty years after the first women entered the academy, they represent a generational moment of change.

Only after facing the threat of litigation did the state concede that many of the documents did not exist.
10/13/2025

Only after facing the threat of litigation did the state concede that many of the documents did not exist.

Maryland’s Department of Human Services repeatedly violated a policy mandating detailed reports on child deaths tied to suspected abuse or neglect. The Baltimore Banner uncovered the problem after requesting records for all such cases over five years and finding many reports didn’t exist.

Responding to a 911 call in the morning of Jan. 12, 1989, Annapolis Police officers found Garnet Elizabeth Griffith dead...
10/13/2025

Responding to a 911 call in the morning of Jan. 12, 1989, Annapolis Police officers found Garnet Elizabeth Griffith dead at a residence on Kensington Way.

Annapolis police have arrested a man for the 1989 fatal shooting of Garnet Elizabeth Griffith, a killing that had stumped investigators for more than three decades.

Navy (6–0, 4–0 American) improved to 6–0 for the first time since 2019 and extended its road winning streak to five game...
10/12/2025

Navy (6–0, 4–0 American) improved to 6–0 for the first time since 2019 and extended its road winning streak to five games.

Navy (6–0, 4–0 American) improved to 6–0 for the first time since 2019 and extended its road winning streak to five games.

“They’re figuring right now, we will follow the commands of our commander in chief. That’s the oath we took, when they’r...
10/12/2025

“They’re figuring right now, we will follow the commands of our commander in chief. That’s the oath we took, when they’re lawful.”

What Moore said feels like almost as dangerous a fantasy — that the military might save the republic from becoming a military dictatorship by disobeying a presidential order.

Maryland’s coastal areas, like Ocean City, and cities along the Chesapeake Bay, including Annapolis, will see the more e...
10/11/2025

Maryland’s coastal areas, like Ocean City, and cities along the Chesapeake Bay, including Annapolis, will see the more extreme impacts of the storm system, including two to three inches of rain and up to 50 mph winds.

The nor’easter will mostly impact the coastal areas of Maryland and cities along the Chesapeake Bay. But Baltimore will also experience some strong wind gusts and light rainfall over the holiday weekend.

This goes far beyond what usually happens in a government shutdown, which is that federal workers are furloughed but res...
10/11/2025

This goes far beyond what usually happens in a government shutdown, which is that federal workers are furloughed but restored to their jobs once the shutdown ends.

The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues.

Last week, the Kaye family sold its two 74-foot schooners in Annapolis to 59º North Sailing, a rare change in a rarefied...
10/10/2025

Last week, the Kaye family sold its two 74-foot schooners in Annapolis to 59º North Sailing, a rare change in a rarefied field.

Jen Kaye and her family have sold Schooner Woodwind to 59º North Sailing, a rare change in the rarefied field of commercial sailing.

“The officer went down there, and they were nice enough to give him some waders, so he could bundle up appropriately. He...
10/10/2025

“The officer went down there, and they were nice enough to give him some waders, so he could bundle up appropriately. He said he was able to lift it out.”

The founder and director of the Chesapeake Children’s Museum in Annapolis has twice now gone outside to find a four-foot-long statue of a turtle was missing.

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