Power restored at BWI after planes were grounded, passengers left in the dark
The outage happened at around 6 p.m. Airport officials acknowledged the outage at 6:12 p.m. on X, saying efforts were being made to restore the power.
Passengers sat in a darkened terminal for more than 90 minutes Saturday after a power outage delayed flights at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.
A councilman wanted to hold a hearing about overdoses. He got shut down.
A hearing to examine Baltimore’s opioid overdose crisis was abruptly canceled Wednesday morning as a dispute between Mayor Brandon Scott and the City Council member who’d called the meeting boiled over and became public.
Members of the BRIDGES Coalition hold a demonstration in front of City Hall in Baltimore, Wednesday, July 10, 2024.
$20M to pay lawyers: Where money from Baltimore’s opioid settlement will go
Questions abound about how the money will be used to combat overdoses.
Discarded Narcan nasal spray sits on Retreat Street in Baltimore on Friday, Dec. 8, 2023.
Council will hold four hearings examining city’s response to overdoses
The Baltimore City Council will hold at least four oversight hearings examining the city’s response to its unprecedented overdose epidemic.
The exterior of Baltimore City Hall.
City Council to examine city’s overdose response after Banner/Times report
Councilman Mark Conway plans to introduce legislation on Monday to convene a hearing in late June.
Baltimore City Councilman Mark Conway listens during a hearing with members of the Baltimore City Council’s Public Safety and Government Operations Committee inside Baltimore City Hall on Wednesday, Aug. 23.
Seniors in Baltimore are being devastated by drugs: 5 takeaways
The city has become the U.S. overdose capital, and older Black men are dying at higher rates than anyone else.
A person receives Narcan from Bmore POWER on Arlington Avenue in Baltimore on Thursday, December 14, 2023.
A horrific number of older Black men are dying from overdoses in Baltimore
Many are dying from fentanyl and other drugs. The hardest-hit are Black men in their 50s to 70s, a group that Baltimore’s changing economy left behind.
Dr. Letitia Dzirasa, Baltimore’s top health official, to leave job next month
Deputy chief of staff J.D. Merrill will serve as Dzirasa’s interim replacement.
Dr. Letitia Dzirasa, then health commissioner, in her office in January 2023. She was later promoted to deputy mayor of health, equity and human services. According to a memo obtained by The Banner, she will leave City Hall in June.
‘I love you in the sky, daddy’: Stories from Baltimore’s overdose crisis
Unprecedented overdose rates from fentanyl and other drugs have left signs of loss across the city.
Cassidy Fredrick, 6, sits on the headstone of her father, Devon Wellington, at Woodlawn Cemetery in Baltimore, MD on April 7, 2024.
Jaylon Ferguson made it from Louisiana to the Ravens. An overdose cut his legacy short.
The same drug that Jackie Ferguson had used to ease her mother’s pain had also taken her son Jaylon’s life.
Doni Smith sits at the grave of her fiancé, Jaylon Ferguson, with their children Jrea and Jyce Ferguson at St. Paul No. 1 Cemetery in St. Francisville, Louisiana, on June 21, 2023. Smith crafted items to leave at Ferguson's grave on the one-year anniversary of his passing.
Almost 6,000 dead in 6 years: How Baltimore became the U.S. overdose capital
The city was once hailed for its response to addiction. But as fentanyl flooded the streets and officials shifted priorities, deaths hit unprecedented heights.
Baltimore’s unprecedented overdose crisis: 5 takeaways
Nearly 6,000 people have died over the past six years — an unparalleled number among U.S. cities.
The synthetic opioid fentanyl, up to 50 times more potent than heroin, has taken over Baltimore’s illegal drug supply, contributing to more and more deaths.
6 missing construction workers in Francis Scott Key bridge collapse are presumed dead
The Coast Guard doesn’t think the six construction workers survived the bridge collapse because of the deep waters and cold temperatures.
Close up photos of the Key bridge collapse, taken by Baltimore City Fire Rescue 1
Tell us about your drug overdose story
Reporters with The Baltimore Banner and The New York Times are investigating the problem of drug overdoses and we want to hear from those with personal experiences.
Boxes of Narcan in a bowl on a table.
What is your experience with the overdose crisis in Baltimore?
We want to hear from you.
A Bmore POWER worker passes out Narcan (naloxone) to a person walking at the corner of Cumberland Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in Baltimore, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023.
Less than half of Maryland jails comply with opioid-addiction treatment law meant to save lives
The first-in-the-nation law required all Maryland jails to have opioid treatment programs in place by January.
Photo collage showing scribbled-out medication bottle and pills in man’s hands, with prison bars in background on left and text from House Bill 116 on right.
‘Caught in the riptide’: a Baltimore college student brought here at age 1 could be deported
Adolfo Martinez is a junior at Loyola poses for a portrait on campus, in Baltimore, Monday, March 6, 2023.
Jimmy Carter taught her how to hold a hammer. It changed the Baltimore teacher’s life.
Meeting the 39th president of the United States and becoming a first-time homeowner marked a turning point in Sonia Street’s life in 1992.
Sonia Street at her home in Sandtown that Jimmy Carter helped build in 1992. They struck up a lifelong friendship/mentorship relationship that spanned the course of three decades.
How Baltimore-based groups fight human trafficking in Maryland and across the U.S.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken presented the 2022 Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons last week.
A woman holds a large, framed certificate with a man. Another woman stands at a lectern.
Muslim man who worked for Southwest Airlines at BWI alleges religious discrimination
The ramp agent was fired after he used personal days to attend Friday prayer services, including during a ”state of emergency” in December, according to a complaint filed Tuesday.
Southwest Airlines travelers stand in a long line at Baltimore/Washington International Airport after thousands of flights were canceled over the holiday weekend.
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