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Tim Prudente

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Tim Prudente is an enterprise reporter for The Baltimore Banner. His job is to find and tell great stories, wherever that may lead. He previously worked six years at The Baltimore Sun, covering state courts, criminal justice issues and city schools. He’s worked at local newspapers in Maryland and Pennsylvania. He was born in Baltimore.

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A man crosses the street on S. Highland Ave. in Baltimore, Md. on Tuesday, January 14, 2025.
Inside the Baltimore communities that backed Trump’s return to the White House
A pattern that played out nationally also held in Maryland. Trump performed better in almost all of its 23 counties and Baltimore than he did four years earlier.
WASHINGTON - JULY 07:  National District Attorneys Association President Joseph Cassilly (seated) voices his support for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor during a news conference with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) (L) and other leaders from several law enforcement groups  on Capitol Hill July 7, 2009 in Washington, DC. The law enforcement groups, including the Fraternal Order of Police, announced their support of Sotomayor, citing her criminal justice record on the bench and as a prosecutor.
Joseph Cassilly, paralyzed in Vietnam, rose to become Harford’s longest-serving state’s attorney
The longest-serving state’s attorney in Harford County history died at his home Friday morning of cardiac arrest.
Marchers hold a sign showing their solidarity against hate at Baltimore's MLK Day parade on Jan. 16, 2023.
Polar vortex forces Baltimore to cancel MLK Day parade: ‘Necessary decision’
Officials canceled the parade because of the freezing temperatures expected to blast the Baltimore area.
Front yard of Azi Rosenblum in Mt. Washington, Monday, January 13, 2025.
Gaza ceasefire brings Baltimore area hope for lasting peace — and an end to a haunting memorial
The 15-month-long war has brought anguish to Jewish and Palestinian families across Baltimore, and a haunting public memorial has forced the area to confront the faraway conflict.
Dakota Baeta has been on the mail route in Woodberry since April and he was enjoying his first snowstorm on Monday, January 6, 2025.
Who braves the snowstorm? The bartender and a postal carrier
In Woodberry, the families hunkered down inside. Yet the lights shone from one stalwart, neighborhood institution.
Gabrielle Elkaim and her partner, Pablo Castillo, took steps to weather seal their Baltimore home and bring down their rising BGE winter bills.
Think your BGE bill is high? Rates are rising
Maryland’s BGE customers will see even higher bills in January as rates rise for gas and electricity.
A Chesapeake Bay skipjack sails near the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Work will begin next month to rebuild the bridge.
Key Bridge rebuild gets a start date
There’s a start date now for the four-year, $2-billion project to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
People carry signs as they line up for a seat to get into the Blair County court house before Luigi Mangione’s appearance in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on December 19, 2024.
Quaint Pennsylvania burg becomes stage for clash about politics, justice with Luigi Mangione case
Law enforcement officials were bracing for crowds of reporters, protesters and onlookers ay Luigi Mangione's hearing Thursday in Hollidaysburg.
Luigi Mangione is escorted by police to his arraignment at the Blair County Courthouse in Hollidaysburg, Pa., Monday, Dec. 9, 2024. The 26-year-old Maryland native was  arrested in Altoona, Pa., on gun charges and for questioning in connection with last week's killing of a health insurance executive in Midtown Manhattan that prompted a manhunt up and down the East Coast, the New York Police Department said.
Celebrated with memes and merch, Luigi Mangione embraced by internet after arrest
Luigi Mangione, who has been charged with murder in health care CEO Brian Thompson's fatal shooting, has emerged as a cause célèbre for anti-capitalists and those frustrated by the U.S. health care system.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 04: Police gather outside of a Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan where United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot on December 04, 2024 in New York City. Brian Thompson was shot and killed before 7:00 AM this morning outside the Hilton Hotel, just before he was set to attend the company's annual investors' meeting.
Who is Luigi Mangione? Scion of Baltimore family charged in UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killing
Police apprehended the man after receiving a tip that he had been spotted at a McDonald’s near Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Maryland collector ‘hit the mother lode’ of Egyptian art. Then the FBI called.
Hobbyist Mark Ragan of Edgewater found himself enmeshed in the underworld of art smuggling when he bought a handful of Egyptian antiquities on eBay.
Camp Small in 2023.
Before the fire, Baltimore’s Camp Small supplied wood for fine furniture and elephant toys
Baltimore’s craftsmen had depended on the lumberyard at Camp Small for precious, hard-to-find native timber.
JoAnn Dowery walks the final mail route of her 32-year career, around the Ten Hills neighborhood on Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024 in Baltimore, MD.
She delivered mail to Baltimore for decades. Upon her retirement, a heartfelt surprise.
A heartfelt surprise by neighbors in West Baltimore to their longtime mail carrier.
A Baltimore judge on Thursday approved a $434 million payment by Under Armour to settle allegations that founder Kevin Plank and other executives misled investors.
Under Armour is about to pay historic amount to settle allegations it duped investors
Under Armour has two weeks to pay $434 million into an escrow account, the fund to repay potentially thousands of stockholders who lost money from the company’s alleged scheme to hide declining sales.
The new Under Armour headquarters on the Baltimore Peninsula.
Under Armour moving global headquarters to Baltimore Peninsula next week
Development officials have pointed the to company’s arrival as a watershed moment for the ambitious development project of the Baltimore Peninsula.

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