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    A shooting with multiple fatalities took place at Breslin Court in the early morning hours of Christmas Eve, December 24, 2024.
    Police investigate domestic-related shooting of 4 in Baltimore County
    Police confirmed there were multiple gunshot wounds in a shooting Tuesday morning in Baltimore County.
    Maryland lawmakers will head into the 2025 legislative session in January facing a tough budget situation.
    Here are the Maryland laws that kick in for the new year
    More than a dozen laws take effect in January in Maryland, from health insurance coverage changes to increased fines for speeding in work zones.
    Former President Bill Clinton speaks onstage at an event in New York City earlier this month. Clinton was hospitalized in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 23 with a fever.
    Bill Clinton is hospitalized in DC with fever but in good spirits, spokesperson says
    Former President Bill Clinton was admitted Monday to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington after developing a fever.
    Baltimore Police arrest 5, including 3 boys, in armed carjacking of woman
    Baltimore City Police over the weekend arrested five people, including a 9-year-old boy, stemming from a carjacking in which a woman was dragged from her car at a stop sign, authorities said.
    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.

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    St. Pius X Roman Catholic Church has been serving the communities of north Baltimore since 1958.
    As St. Pius X prepares for its last Christmas Mass, neighbors hope for a miracle
    Parishioners are preparing for their final Christmas Mass at St. Pius X in Towson, one of the last Baltimore-area churches to close its doors under the Archdiocese’s church merger plan.
    Sunny Side Café co-owner Kristian Knight-Miller behind the counter at her stall in Lexington Market.
    ‘Invisible’ but essential: Baltimore’s Black immigrants
    And, although there has been an exodus of Black residents from Baltimore in the past decade, its foreign-born Black population has continued to grow.
    Bottles of Coors beer are displayed on a shelf at a liquor store on May 2, 2018 in Fairfax, California.
    Maryland liquor stores push back on beer, wine in grocery aisles
    A group of liquor retailers denounced Gov. Wes Moore’s support of beer and wine sales at Maryland grocery stores.
    Amazon packages on the front steps of a Baltimore home, Tuesday, December 17, 2024.
    Baltimore residents fend off ‘porch pirates’ as holiday packages pour in
    With more than 120 million packages stolen last year, Baltimoreans try to outsmart thieves with security cameras and package drop boxes.
    Robert Ingram Jr.
    Media executive Robert Ingram Jr. was a champion for diversity and inclusion
    Robert “Bob” Ingram Jr., an esteemed media executive who worked across disciplines to champion diversity, equity and inclusion, died on Dec. 10 of a subdural hemorrhage. He was 69.

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    CAN, Community Assistance Network, is a program built to help port workers, but over time it found an even larger Baltimore County population in need of aid: undocumented families. They distribute food boxes weekly that include fresh produce, meats, dairy, bread, and non-perishables.
    Key Bridge food pantry may close despite demand among undocumented families
    A program to help port workers after the Key Bridge collapse is now on the front lines of aiding Baltimore County’s growing number of undocumented families. But will the funding last?
    The Peale Center is located on Holliday Street and operates from 3-7 on Thursday and Friday and 10-4 on Saturday and Sunday.
    The Peale’s new leader plans to bring innovation to the historic museum
    The Peale, the first purpose-built museum in America, announced a new executive director ready to take the storied museum into the future.
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    CAMBRIDGE, Md. - Nause-Waiwash Chief Donna Wolf Mother Abbott stands in front of the Dorchester County Visitor Center and the Cambridge land acknowledgment sign.
    Maryland tribe’s first female chief fights for identity, equality and preservation
    Chief Donna Wolf Mother Abbott is the first woman chief of a Maryland tribe in known recorded history.
    H. Furlong Baldwin in 1991 in Lower Chesapeake.
    H. Furlong Baldwin, who led Mercantile banks, was a man of ‘uncommon integrity’
    H. Furlong Baldwin, who led Baltimore’s Mercantile-Safe Deposit and Trust Co. for more than two decades, died Dec. 7 from complications of multiple myeloma. He was 92.

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    More than 250,000 tires were left abandoned at an industrial site in Allegany County, Maryland.
    Anne Arundel man learns fate for dumping 250,000 tires in Allegany County
    An Anne Arundel County man was sentenced to five years behind bars for dumping and abandoning over 250,000 scrap tires in Allegany, the state attorney general announced Wednesday.
    Hundreds gathered at Sts. Philip and James Church on North Charles Street for the final chance to see the relics of St. Thomas Aquinas for the last time in the U.S.
    Baltimore Catholics gather for last chance to see skull of St. Thomas Aquinas
    Hundreds gathered at Saints Philip and James Church on North Charles Street for the final chance to see the relics of a revered theologian in the U.S.
    Essex residents protest a gun shop that opened across from a church, day care and school.
    Essex residents protest gun shop opening across from church day care
    Over a dozen Essex residents held a demonstration Tuesday afternoon against a gun shop that opened across a Church day care.
    Zion Lewis, 22, was on break from college in December 2021 when he a suffered a fatal blood clot at his mom's house in Howard County.
    Howard County jury awards a record $7.25 million verdict in medical malpractice suit
    The trial in Howard County Circuit Court ended with what is believed to be the largest medical malpractice verdict in county history.
    The Maryland Holiday Light Spectacular is helping to ring in the holiday season with festive displays in Baltimore County.
    7 things to do in Baltimore County this week: Get into the holiday spirit
    It’s the week before the holidays, and Baltimore County is offering plenty of ways to celebrate, from a holiday light festival to a Hanukkah bash.
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