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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 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.
Kevin Spacey has lived at least seven years in the 9,000-square-foot Inner Harbor pier home, but he fell behind in his mortgage payments and his house was sold at public auction in July.
Kevin Spacey settles dispute over auction of Baltimore home, buyer says
Kevin Spacey has agreed to settle his legal fight with a Bethesda real estate investor over the auction of actor’s waterfront home in Baltimore, the investor said Friday.
Candy Warden brushes leaves and grass off the grave marker for Hilda Maria Gray, one of several people buried alongside pets in the Rosa Bonheur Memorial Park in Elkridge.
Mystery and scandal haunt pet cemetery on coveted Howard County land
A famous old pet cemetery hides in the shadows of Howard County’s new apartments. And someone’s moving the graves.
Kevin Spacey has lived at least seven years in the 9,000-square-foot Inner Harbor pier home, but he fell behind on his mortgage payments and his house was sold at public auction.
Judge to settle fight over Kevin Spacey’s Baltimore waterfront home
Wednesday's hearing brought yet another chance for Kevin Spacey to stave off the sale of his luxury home in Baltimore.
At left, Matan Boltax, who was at the Nova music festival when Hamas launched its attack on Oct. 7, 2023, shared his story with people at the ARIEL Chabad Center in Pikesville. At right, people gather with signs at a rally Sunday afternoon in Columbia, Md., in support of Palestine.
One year since Oct. 7, Maryland’s Jewish and Palestinian communities grapple with fallout
In the days leading up to the first anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, locals with ties to both Israel and Gaza assembled peacefully across Maryland.
Rookie Ravens cornerback Nate Wiggins missed last month’s game against the Las Vegas Raiders after the crash on I-95.
Photos show Nate Wiggins’ crashed Lamborghini after close call on I-95
Ravens cornerback Nate Wiggins’ Lamborghini Urus crashed, rolled on its side and came to rest in the northbound lanes of I-95 in Baltimore last month.
A glum ride home after the Orioles playoff loss turned into the “shuttle bus from hell.”
Night of wrong turns: Orioles fans bound for home caught on ‘shuttle bus from hell’
A bus meant to carry dejected Orioles fans south to Cromwell Station went the wrong way. A “mutiny” ensued.

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