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Norman Gomlak

Norman

Norm Gomlak is a local news editor at The Baltimore Banner. He currently works with reporters covering public education, immigration, diversity and other topics. He previously worked as deputy metro editor of the Houston Chronicle and as an editor at the Baltimore Sun, the (Raleigh) News & Observer and the AP. He was also a politics reporter for the Charlotte Observer and the Fairfax (Va.) Journal. He is a native of Buffalo, N.Y and a graduate of Boston University's journalism school.

Latest content by Norman Gomlak

Thomas Dickey, attorney for suspect Luigi Mangione, speaks to press outside the Blair County Courthouse after an extradition hearing on Tuesday in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania.
Luigi Mangione has a Pennsylvania attorney. He won’t say who retained him.
A Pennsylvania attorney said Tuesday evening that he has been retained to represent Luis Mangione but declined to say who has done so. Mangione has refused to waive extradition to face charges of second-degree murder and other offenses in New York in the shooting death of healthcare executive Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan.
Traffic travels along the Jones Falls Expressway soon after it was opened Friday morning as a fire continues to smolder at the Camp Small city wood recycling facility.
Traffic: I-83 in Baltimore reopens in both directions after massive fire, light rail to resume soon
A large fire at a wood waste site in the city’s Woodberry neighborhood has shut down Interstate 83 in both directions, as well as Cold Spring Lane.
Dr. Marty Makary
Trump taps Johns Hopkins surgeon Marty Makary for FDA chief
President-elect Donald Trump on Friday announced he has nominated Dr. Marty Makary, a Johns Hopkins University pancreatic surgeon and Fox News contributor, to be commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.
Baltimore residents cast their votes inside the polling location at Margaret Brent Elementary/Middle School on Tuesday.
Moore says state investigating bomb threats at local elections offices
Gov. Wes Moore said late Friday that his office is working with state and local officials to address bomb threats that were reported at local elections offices across Maryland. The state’s top elections official said those tallying votes were evacuated and “everyone is safe.”
Mayor Brandon Scott delivers his 2024 State of the City address at Baltimore Center Stage on March 25, 2024.uk
Scott laments Kamala Harris’ loss: ‘This country does not deserve Black women’
A video of Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott lamenting the loss of Vice President Kamala Harris — and America’s treatment of Black women in general — has gone viral.
Former President Barack Obama paid a surprise visit to a campaign office in Maryland on Thursday. He was accompanied by Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks and U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen.
Obama pays surprise visit to volunteers at phone bank for Alsobrooks
Former president Barack Obama dropped in at a phone bank for Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks on Thursday. He brought Halloween cookies and stressed the importance of electing Democrats like Alsobrooks to support the agenda of Kamala Harris.
Archbishop William Lori is shown in his conference room in September 2023.
8 Catholic churches got a reprieve from the archdiocese. 3 weren’t so lucky.
The blueprint released Wednesday closely tracks the draft plan that the archdiocese put out in April, reducing the number of parishes — or Catholic communities — from 61 to 23. The number of actual churches would shrink from 59 to 30. But Archbishop William Lori did spare eight churches initially, while delivering some late bad news to others.
St. Vincent de Paul Church, 120 N. Front, St., in Baltimore, will be closed and merged with St. Leo the Great under a final consolidation plan released by the Archdiocese of Maryland.
Here’s which Baltimore Catholic churches are closing — and the ones that were spared
A final plan announced by Archbishop William E. Lori would reduce the number of parishes in Baltimore City and parts of Baltimore County from 61 to 23, while shrinking the number of worship sites from 59 to 30, four more than originally recommended.
St. Ann’s Catholic Church will close under a plan announced Wednesday by the Archbishop of Baltimore. It will merge with St. Francis Xavier.
Archdiocese of Baltimore to close half of Catholic churches in city, nearby suburbs
Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori on Wednesday announced a final church consolidation plan that would reduce the number of worship sites from 59 to 30. Many churches would get folded into merged parishes.
Romey Pittman, left, talks with a parent about New Village Academy, a proposed charter school in Annapolis, during the Juneteenth festival on Saturday.
Annapolis charter school delays opening until 2025, citing halt in lease negotiations
Organizers of New Village Academy planned to open a charter high school this fall, but they have encountered difficulty finalizing a lease at Westfield Annapolis mall.
David Winchester Jr., 47, of Baltimore.
Annapolis, Baltimore police jointly investigate shooting death of man who was reported kidnapped
The mother of a Baltimore man called police early Thursday to report that men had broken into her home and demanded money for her son, whom they claimed to be holding. They fled without the money, and hours later the man was found dead in a wooded area of Annapolis.
Large clouds hover over eastbound U.S. 40 leaving downtown Baltimore amid a mix of sunshine and snow flurries on Sunday, March 10, 2024.
Is it spring yet? Gusty winds, flurries have Baltimoreans bundling up
Spring is just around the corner, but high gusts coupled with temperatures in the 40s are making it feel much colder.
The view looking up Towson Street toward Our Lady of Counsel Catholic Church (right) in Locust Point.
How a walk through Locust Point can teach you Baltimore history
Here are seven places I’ve enjoyed checking out since moving to this South Baltimore community that includes Fort McHenry and the former arrival point for more than a million immigrants.
Bruce Springsteen performed the first concert at CFG Bank Arena post renovations on April 7, 2023.
Commentary: ‘I’ve got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack’: Bruce Springsteen cements relationship with city at arena show
I caught two Springsteen shows 11 days apart, in Baltimore and D.C. The Baltimore show was better, and a reminder that live music is back at the old arena.
A Baltimore City Police car sits parked on North Calvert St.
Maryland attorney general’s office investigates fatal crash that followed Baltimore police pursuit
An elderly female passenger was killed in the crash in the city’s Roland Park neighborhood.

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