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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.
Nothing is impossible, Stevie Wonder tells graduates, if you want it for good purposes
Wonder was at the Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall on Wednesday afternoon as the recipient of the George Peabody Medal, the highest honor by the institute at the Johns Hopkins University.
Grammy Award-winning singer Stevie Wonder speaks to graduates at the Peabody Conservatory ceremony Wednesday.
Mark Parker declares victory in Baltimore’s 1st District City Council race
The pastor at Breath of God Lutheran Church and a familiar face in Highlandtown would take over the seat of Zeke Cohen, who endorsed Parker earlier this year and declared victory in his bid for City Council president.
Mark Parker, Joseph Koehler and Liam Davis are running for Baltimore City Council in District 1.
A majority of the Baltimore City Council hangs on in early results in the 2024 primary
The Baltimore City Council is not likely to change much as several incumbents, facing lesser-known or scantily funded opponents, were poised to handily win their races.
Baltimore City Council members, including (from left) Council President Nick Mosby, Phylicia Porter, Kristerfer Burnett, Zeke Cohen and John Bullock listen as Mayor Brandon Scott gives the annual State of the City address on Monday, April 17. The event was held at the Middle Branch Fitness and Wellness Center in South Baltimore.
Johns Hopkins protest continues after talks with school officials falter: What we know
The pro-Palestinian encampment on the Johns Hopkins University campus has stretched on for about a week, despite rainy weather.
A protester waves a Palestinian flag amid a protest on Monday at Johns Hopkins University.
Volunteers don’t take the Kinetic Sculpture Race seriously. They’re not supposed to.
An annual festival dating to 1999, the spring Baltimore event invites racers — or, as they are called, pilots — to show off their human-powered sculptures in a 15-mile course.
Scenes from the Kinetic Sculpture race on May 6, 2023.
Johns Hopkins says pro-Palestinian protests can continue, but not overnight
Pro-Palestinian protesters on Monday set up an encampment at the Johns Hopkins University, the latest college to face demonstrations related to the Israel-Hamas war.
A demonstrator at the Johns Hopkins University waves the Palestinian flag.
Family says 7-year-old shot at Mondawmin Mall is on the road to recovery
The girl was struck once in the abdomen and once in the hand.
The mother and aunt of the 7-year-old shot at Mondawmin Mall said they received an “outpouring of love” from community members, who have asked for updates on the status of the girl. They didn’t want to show their faces because of safety reasons.
What life is like for children navigating Baltimore’s immigration court
For the last decade, children have been traveling to the U.S. southwest border in record numbers, with more than 33,000 unaccompanied children arriving in Maryland since October 2014.
Photo collage of silhouette of young girl with ponytail and backpack next to bright orange stuffed toy rabbit. The background shows on the left a photo of the border wall between the USA and Mexico, and on the right a grayscale photo of a judge in a courtroom.
City moves forward with efforts to make immigrant affairs office permanent
The decade-old Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs was created more than 10 years ago as a division of the mayor’s office that could be cut at any time. Under a bill being considered by the City Council, it would be added to the city code as a permanent office.
Catalina Rodriguez Lima poses for a portrait in the City Hall rotunda with her left hand on the rail.
Body of Key Bridge victim Maynor Suazo Sandoval recovered on Friday
Divers have recovered the body of Maynor Suazo Sandoval, a construction worker who was working on the Francis Scott Key Bridge when it collapsed.
Maynor Suazo Sandoval had an entrepreneurial mind and wanted to open a small business in Owings Mills, where he lived.
Bridge collapse victim José Mynor López moved to US for a better life
Six men died after falling into the dark waters of the Patapsco River after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed. José Mynor López is among those whose body has not been found.
José Mynor López (right) was always willing to help his family, his younger brother Mackon said.
How racist, anti-immigrant disinformation added to the Key Bridge tragedy
Baltimore has become the latest target of a national far-right campaign spreading thinly veiled racism after a catastrophic event.
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott attends a news conference in Dundalk after a cargo ship crashed into the Francis Scott Key bridge early Tuesday, collapsing the bridge into the Patapsco River.
What we know about the victims and survivors of the Key Bridge collapse
The six missing workers were all part of Baltimore’s flourishing Latino community, immigrant advocates say.
Maynor Suazo, one of the six construction workers who died while working on the Francis Scott Key Bridge, had two children.
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