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Woman’s 24-mile swim to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor tests a clean-water dream
If the weather cooperates, on Tuesday she will enter the bay near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and swim more than 24 miles to the Harborplace Amphitheater in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, one of her longest swims ever — a never-before-done swim and the longest anyone has attempted in the harbor in decades.
Katie Pumphery practices at Meadowbrook on June 11, 2024.  Pumphery is an ultra-marathon swimmer who will tackle a 24-mile swim from the Chesapeake Bay to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor next week.
Deal ensures city will be able to interview departing Dali crew for lawsuit
Baltimore is suing the ship’s owner and operator for negligence, seeking to recoup “significant” claims of economic loss.
A crane lifts a shipping container from the Dali and over wreckage of the Key Bridge on Tuesday, April 16, 2024.
Salt marsh habitat on the Inner Harbor to open to the public in early August
The exhibit, including the walkable floating dock, spans to 10,000 feet. Admission will be free, and it will operate the same hours as the aquarium, which is open between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. from Sunday through Thursday and until 9 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
“Harbor Wetland,” a National Aquarium floating exhibit that re-creates a salt marsh habitat, will be open to the public Aug. 9, near the date of the aquarium’s 43rd anniversary.
Doctors at UMMC vote for forming a union by an overwhelming margin
The tallied vote came in Thursday night as 628 voting for and 19 against. To win union certification, they needed just a simple majority of those who chose to vote.
Resident physicians and fellows at the University of Maryland Medical Center have formed a union.
Maryland pickleball equipment serves legal volley at sport’s governing body over paddle ban
Sport Squad, Inc., which does business as JOOLA, is seeking $100 million in damages. JOOLA, based in Rockville, is also seeking an injunction requiring the USA Pickleball Association to approve the nine pickleball paddles it rejected and make them eligible for use in competition.
A Maryland-based pickleball equipment maker is suing USA Pickleball, seeking to force the governing body to approve its paddles for use in competition in the fast-growing sport.
Baltimore’s once-thriving Polish community takes another hit in Catholic Church reorganization
Baltimore's Holy Rosary Catholic Church was long a beacon for Polish families. Its parish will soon merge with a Latino one.
Holy Rosary church hosts the Polish festival every fall.
Maryland-based pickleball paddle maker facing proposed class-action lawsuit
The case was filed June 6 in U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Gregory Matus, a Fort Lauderdale resident, said Sport Squad, Inc., which does business as JOOLA, marketed and sold pickleball paddles as if USA Pickleball had approved them.
Pickleball has grown popular in the past few years, and is one of the fastest growing sports in the US.
Baltimore’s Clavel misses out, but Easton chef Harley Peet wins James Beard Award
James Beard Award finalists Clavel Mezcaleria, Tony Conte of Inferno Pizzeria Napoletana in Darnestown and Harley Peet of Bas Rouge in Easton vied against eateries from across the coast and country.
Harley Peet won the James Beard award in the best chef: mid-Atlantic category.
Main channel to the Port of Baltimore now open following Key Bridge collapse
Reopening the federal channel will restore normal shipping traffic, boost Baltimore’s economy and help thousands of jobs impacted by the disaster.
Salvage crews successfully removed the final large steel truss segment of the fallen Key Bridge on June 3-4.
Pat Sajak, who called Maryland home, retires as host of ‘Wheel of Fortune’ after 41 seasons
Pat Sajak announced his retirement in June 2023, making the 41st season of “Wheel of Fortune” his last.
Pat Sajak and Vanna White attend the 25th anniversary celebration of “Wheel of Fortune” at Radio City Music Hall in 2007.
Summer heat has arrived. Here are the hours and rules for Baltimore’s pools.
There are rules and procedures, including setting up an account with Recreation and Parks, you need to keep in mind before heading out.
Roosevelt Park Pool and most of the other city pools are opening, some with extended hours, after a lifeguard shortage caused closures over the last few years since the pandemic. Pool goers don't need to worry about that this year!
Pair convicted of impersonating police, torturing carjacking victims in Baltimore
The kidnappings, where the men wore vests with “police” written on them, took place in May of 2021.
Baltimore Police crime scene tape remains on the scene after a vehicle exploded inside a five-story parking garage in Baltimore’s Fells Point neighborhood on 7/27/22.  Two people are being treated for injuries, fire officials said Wednesday afternoon.
ACLU says a Howard County school is trying to silence students over Israel-Hamas war
The letter, which focuses on River Hill High School, said Principal Robert Motley and Assistant Principal Allison Volinsky are violating district policy and the First Amendment rights of the students.
The exterior of River Hill High School in Howard County on Feb. 7, 2024.
Baltimore woman faces 135 charges for running sex-trafficking ring
Kenika D. Leach is accused of coercing at least 11 women into sex work over two years in an operation she called “The Pussy Kat Klub.”
Baltimore Police crime scene tape remains on the scene after a vehicle exploded inside a five-story parking garage in Baltimore’s Fells Point neighborhood on 7/27/22.  Two people are being treated for injuries, fire officials said Wednesday afternoon.
Community health workers were essential during COVID. Now, they’re asking for help.
There is a move afoot to help expand and pay for a what been a largely hidden workforce in Maryland of community health workers, who help marginalized people get health care and other services though they often go without.
Linda Flores is a community health worker through Latino Health Initiative.
4 suspended, 1 injured after brawl at BWI; fight caught on video
Four employees of a Spirit Airlines vendor have been suspended after they fought with a fifth person at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.
A fight between vendors working for a Spirit Airlines and a fifth person at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport was caught on video. The four contractors working for the vendor have been suspended.
UMD gets $500 million contract from Department of Defense, largest research deal in school history
The Department of Defense awarded a $500 million contract with the University of Maryland’s national security research facility, the largest research deal the university has received.
Library and campus of the University of Maryland located in College Park, MD.
A man accused his ex of a campaign of online attacks. The FBI says he was the stalker.
The FBI affidavit unsealed Friday in U.S. District Court in Maryland lays out a series of allegations of stalking, using spoofed phone numbers and text messages aimed at the targeted woman.
Richard Michael Roe is charged with cyberstalking and is currently free on $100,000 bond. He pleaded not guilty at an initial appearance.
They bonded over the Grateful Dead. Now friends of a slain trans woman honor her at a festival
The festival — they are calling it MegFest — was supposed to pair up with the day of the trial of the man who fatally shot her. It is supposed to bring closure to a community that is still piecing together what happened that night in December.
Meghan Lewis' life is honored with a candle lit memorial in Bel Air, MD on Jan 2, 2024.
Archdiocese of Baltimore to close half of Catholic churches in city, nearby suburbs
Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori on Wednesday announced a final church consolidation plan that would reduce the number of worship sites from 59 to 30. Many churches would get folded into merged parishes.
St. Ann’s Catholic Church will close under a plan announced Wednesday by the Archbishop of Baltimore. It will merge with St. Francis Xavier.
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