Clara Longo de Freitas is a breaking news reporter. She has worked for the Baltimore Banner for more than two years, covering all things East Baltimore before joining the express desk. She also covered the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, youth gun violence and immigrant issues. A graduate of the University of Maryland, she spent most of her college years looking into workers’ conditions amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Clara is also an illustrator and likes to paint in her free time. Originally from Brazil, she moved to the United States in 2016.
The Maryland Attorney General’s Office is investigating after Baltimore County Police officers shot and killed an armed man while responding to a stabbing in Essex on Wednesday evening.
A wintry mix could mean icy road conditions in Central Maryland, the National Weather Service said, though snow is only likely to stick closer to the Pennsylvania border.
McCormick & Company is bringing back tin packaging for Old Bay Seasoning, the spice blend’s original packaging before the brand switched to plastic in 2017.
Thanksgiving Day will see a high of 46, and it will stay windy with gusts around 20 to 30 miles per hour. Windchill will make the weather feel below freezing on Thursday night, according to the National Weather Service.
Authorities said they arrested nine people in connection with a drug trafficking network that transported a large amount of cocaine from Texas to Maryland, with drugs stashed in homes across the region.
The families of three Baltimore firefighters who died three years ago battling blazes in vacant rowhomes on Stricker Street said city officials have failed to act and largely pushed them aside, days after prosecutors charged a man in connection with the deaths.
Maryland’s first cold snap of the season has arrived, bringing snow in the mountains, freezing temperatures to its southern counties and a sharp temperature drop statewide.