Adam Willis

BREAKING NEWS: James Appel, who has worked for the Maryland Republican Party and many GOP candidates, has been indicted in federal court on charges of wire fraud and money laundering. Here's what we know. Story w/@justin_fenton: thebanner.com/politics-power…

Maryland Supreme Court throws out Baltimore’s lawsuit against oil companies thebanner.com/community/clim…

After a developer's bid for a Remington dump backfired, he's thinking bigger. Seawall reached a deal this month that looks to some like a step toward a long-held Baltimore dream: to turn the banks of the beleaguered Jones Falls into a park. w/ @emilyopilo thebanner.com/community/clim…

Data center developer wants to reboot a Potomac River power plant with natural gas buff.ly/RphwY2o

NEW: When Maryland's congressional delegation visited ICE's overcrowded holding rooms in downtown Baltimore Monday, they found the place unexpectedly empty. What happened to all the people being held there? We figured it out. Story for @BaltimoreBanner: thebanner.com/politics-power…

BREAKING: The nearly six-month search for Tristan King came to an end Friday morning in Baltimore’s Curtis Bay neighborhood, according to his family’s attorney and several people familiar with his case. The United States Marshals Service found the 9-year-old boy at a run-down house on Filbert Street, not two miles from where he first went missing last September. buff.ly/cZ5mLsW

Incredible @BaltimoreBanner story about a 9-year-old boy, Tristan King, who has been living out on his own, eluding authorities, since September, through the harsh winter. The government even sent armed US marshals looking for him.

This is Tristan. He's 9 and he's been missing longer than any kid his age in Maryland. The people and systems meant to help him didn't. Red tape and mistakes have hampered the search for him. Will anyone find him? w/ @Calefati and @JessMGallagher thebanner.com/community/loca…

Baltimore is losing millions a month thanks to problems processing your sewage, reports @adampwillis thebanner.com/community/clim…

He's on the streets of Baltimore without a guardian, home or even a school. Everyone knows. Yet for all our resources, cops, social workers, drones, we have failed to bring Tristan to safety. A wrenching story by @Calefati @LeeOSanderlin @JessMGallagher: #comments-header" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thebanner.com/community/loca…

Nine-year-old Tristan King has been missing since Sept. 24, longer than any other child his age in Maryland, through one of Baltimore’s coldest winters on record. Missing posters show a blurry photo of a little boy with curly hair and deep-brown eyes. It says he was last seen wearing a white sweater and blue NBA pajama pants. What it doesn’t say is that the past year of Tristan’s life was a procession of misery and mishaps, or that red tape and mistakes hampered the agencies responsible for finding him. buff.ly/PbuxluN

The Pratt Library’s new leader took 3 international trips last year on library donations. The travel came as the library made cuts to its summer reading program and the Bookmobile #comments-header" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thebanner.com/politics-power…

It was supposed to be a bumper year for oysters. Maryland watermen want disaster aid instead. buff.ly/Av7ayQ1

Baltimore's historic, handsome Mount Vernon, in the center of the city, is "one of the loveliest neighborhoods in the world," as one renowned restaurateur puts it. (I agree.) So why has it been losing some luster? @jvaughn411 & @giacomo_bologna: thebanner.com/economy/mount-…

Councilman Pete Smith says he knew nothing about the moratorium or sewage capacity concerns until the county notice went out late Monday, despite the impacted area covering the vast majority of his district. "I am flabbergasted," he said. Story with @codyboteler

Strange situation out of Anne Arundel County: Officials say sewage capacity on a system flowing into a Baltimore treatment pant is at its limit, prompting a moratorium on development for an area in the middle of the I-95 corridor. Fix could take 5 years: thebanner.com/economy/growth…

The trash being dumped at Baltimore's landfill was cut in half following a fee hike the city instituted last year. Still the landfill is on track to be full in 5 years. (w/@adampwillis) thebanner.com/politics-power…

New: Bill Ferguson seeks to ban data center at Baltimore Peninsula and increase BGE scrutiny thebanner.com/politics-power…

There’s a lot that’s been said and assumptions made about where Maryland senators stand on congressional redistricting. But there’s been no public accounting of each senator’s position — until now. See how your senator answered (or dodged) questions: thebanner.com/politics-power…

No one seems to agree on what "downtown Baltimore" actually is. Is it a narrow strip of land near the harbor? Does it include Mount Vernon? The @BaltimoreBanner office? Help us figure this out! Use our new tool to draw what you think of as downtown: thebanner.com/economy/growth…