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47-year-old man dead after motorcycle accident near Inner Harbor, police say

Baltimore Police said they arrived just after 9 p.m. on the 500 block of East Pratt Street to find paramedics treating a motorcyclist involved in an accident.
Free for 15 years, Tyrone Jones finally compensated for wrongful conviction in Baltimore
Tyrone Jones was initially denied compensation under the Walter Lomax Act because at the time in Maryland, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder had been considered a misdemeanor instead of a felony.
Tyrone Jones is photographed after dropping off his son at a therapy session in Parkville, Md. on Wednesday, July 16, 2025.
Red lights got you frustrated? Baltimore to finish retiming traffic lights by February
Baltimore’s transportation department has been retiming most of its roughly 1,400 traffic signals citywide and plans to finish implementing changes by early next year.
A white sedan and yellow school bus make a left turn on a busy city street.
Months after unveiling new headquarters in Baltimore, T. Rowe Price is laying off employees
For the third time in three years, Baltimore-based T. Rowe Price is laying off employees. The firm has not specified how many jobs will be cut.
The new T. Rowe Price global headquarters building is on the Harbor Point waterfront.
Weekend traffic: Latin Fest, Baltimore Farmers’ Market and more events bring road closures
With Latin Fest, music in the Wyman Park Dell and The Baltimore Farmer’s Market, there will be plenty to do in Baltimore this weekend. But, all that fun will bring some not-so-fun detours.
Vendors display their wares at the Baltimore Farmer’s Market in downtown Baltimore.
Baltimore again sees multiple people hospitalized after overdoses in Penn North
Just over a week after a “bad batch” of drugs sent dozens of people in West Baltimore to the hospital, authorities were in the Penn North neighborhood again Friday responding to multiple overdose calls.
Emergency services and opioid outreach teams respond to the Penn North neighborhood Friday as multiple people were hospitalized for overdoses.

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Billy Hunter, last surviving member of inaugural Orioles team, always had the best stories
At 97, Billy Hunter was the last surviving member of the St. Louis Browns and the inaugural Baltimore Orioles team. He died July 3.
Billy Hunter.
Former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke to hold Baltimore town hall
O’Rourke is holding events in Philadelphia and Richmond before his Baltimore visit and then heading to Austin and Milwaukee.
Beto O’Rourke on the campaign trail in 2022. O’Rourke is hosting a town hall in Baltimore Sunday, part of a wave of resistance-themed roadshows.
The art world loves Baltimore artists. This free D.C. exhibit shows why.
“Strong, Bright, Useful & True,” a free art exhibit at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, showcases Baltimore artists including Derrick Adams, Phaan Howng and Jerrell Gibbs.
The all-Baltimore exhibit “Strong, Bright, Useful & True“ is on display at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center’s Irene and Richard Frary Gallery in Washington D.C. through Sept. 6.
Here are 2 new bars to help you forget about the boat noise in Locust Point
Two bars still new to Locust Point are serving the neighborhood in more ways than one.
A Ronco di Sassi Primitive Malbec is rich and tannic at the Bodega and Vino market and wine bar in Locust Point on July 15, 2025.
Baltimore’s 19th-century underground pipes are literally bursting into flames
The 19th-century pipes underground in Baltimore City are bursting into flames, and the city and BGE are pointing fingers instead of finding a solution.
The site of the an underground fire on the morning of July 2, 2025. At this point, South Street was still closed and Baltimore Street was restricted to one lane.

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10 Baltimore officers involved in police-custody death of Dontae Melton Jr. identified
Investigators identified the 10 Baltimore Police Department officers involved in the in-custody death of Dontae Melton Jr., 31.
A co-worker of Dontae Melton Jr. brings a box of donations from his colleagues to Melton’s funeral at DreamLife Worship Center in Randallstown on Saturday.
Man enters plea to murder of Patterson High School student in Baltimore
Roger Alvarado-Mendoza, 25, of Dundalk, entered an Alford plea Thursday in Baltimore Circuit Court to first-degree murder in the shooting of Izaiah Carter on March 6, 2023. Carter was 16.
Michelle Hines, mother of 16-year-old Izaiah Carter speaks with media after the Peace and Remembrance Day, in Baltimore, Thursday, May 25, 2023.
Nurses at Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore plan to strike
Unionized nurses at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore are preparing to hold a one-day strike next week over what organizers say is hospital management’s refusal to address understaffing and other issues.
Saint Agnes is part of Ascension, a private Catholic health care system that runs hospitals across the U.S.
Mass overdose in Baltimore may be tied to new illicit drug mixed with fentanyl
A federal testing program found the synthetic opioid fentanyl mixed with other new drugs may be to blame for the mass overdose in Baltimore.
Boxes of naloxone, testing strips and other resources at North and and Pennsylvania avenues in Baltimore, days after a mass overdose in the Penn North neighborhood.
‘Slow your roll or get a ticket’: Baltimore adds 2 more speed cameras on I-83
The new cameras will go live on Aug. 4, according to the Baltimore City Department of Transportation, and be located near 41st Street.
Commuters zip past one of Baltimore's speed cameras on the Jones Falls Expressway.

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‘Slow your roll or get a ticket’: Baltimore adds 2 more speed cameras on I-83
The new cameras will go live on Aug. 4, according to the Baltimore City Department of Transportation, and be located near 41st Street.
Commuters zip past one of Baltimore's speed cameras on the Jones Falls Expressway.
Maryland hit with torrential rain, flash floods and lightning as another summer storm rolls in
Torrential rains, tornado warnings, and relentless lightning lit up the sky Wednesday night as another round of severe summer weather pummeled Maryland.
Lightning strikes in northern Baltimore County as a severe thunderstorm moves through, July 8, 2025.
What to do in Baltimore this weekend, from dance parties to Christmas in July
Whether you want to see locals jump into Baltimore’s harbor, sweat it out at various dance parties or indulge in National Ice Cream Day with the kids, we’ve got you covered.
Already in the holiday spirit? The B&O Railroad Museum hosts Christmas in July on Saturday.
Long bus rides limit students’ school choices, Hopkins study finds
Baltimore high school students are less likely to pick a school — even the city’s best — if they face a long trip on Maryland’s unreliable transit system.
Baltimore city buses pick up students outside Dunbar High School in June.
An entrepreneur had big plans for a West Baltimore grocery store. Then rent came due.
Mario Minor, a former concert promoter with no experience opening a grocery store, sold Poppleton residents in Baltimore City a dream.
An unopened grocery store in the La Cite development in the Poppleton neighborhood of Baltimore on February 26, 2025.
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