Louis Krauss

Maggie Sabo and her housemates like to work outside in the garden, but lately this once-peaceful activity has been spoiled, the West Baltimore resident says, by a loud droning noise from which there is no escape. That’s because the Baltimore Police Department’s new surveillance plane has been flying directly over their house on its circular route almost every day. “It’s the same exact flight path for five hours at a time. While all of us are gardening, we just hear it buzzing constantly,” said

Tensions were running high at Baltimore’s Immigration Court, with more than 30 people packed into Judge Zakia Mahasa’s courtroom, many facing the prospect of being deported. Most of those who stood before Mahasa appeared to be teenagers. Some came with parents or lawyers, but many, like Mandeep Singh, had no one by their side. “I can’t go back; if I do I’ll be dead,” Singh said on his way out of court, which is held in the George H. Fallon Federal Building in Baltimore.

Baltimore-area TV viewers know what to expect when they see (and hear) attorney Barry Glazer’s iconic commercials: a raft of gold award statues lined up behind him and a pugnacious take on current events delivered in a thick Baltimore accent.

When Bryn Mawr School sophomore Kellsie Lewis and a couple of her friends asked a white student to help them learn a new Tik Tok dance during their English class, the response they got felt like a gut punch. “She told us to ‘move like you’re picking cotton,’” said Lewis, a 15-year-old Black student who had transferred in sixth grade from a predominantly African American city school to the private, all-girls Bryn Mawr. “I was thinking of all the analogies she could’ve used, and she picked that

For James Trent, who lives in a tent under the I-83 overpass, being forced to leave would be the latest in a string of troubles that have made it harder for him to escape homelessness and get his life together. According to Trent and 30 others living on a city-owned parking lot at the intersection of Centre Street and Guilford Avenue, Baltimore officials recently showed up and told them they must move out by Thursday – today. Trent, 60, said he can’t believe the city is forcing homeless people