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A man speaks into a podium microphone outside and the remains of a bridge are seen in the background.
Cardin, Van Hollen continue push for full funding of Key Bridge replacement
Maryland’s U.S. senators are continuing their push to have the federal government pay the entire cost of rebuilding the Francis Scott Key Bridge, calling on their colleagues to pass legislation to authorize the spending.
A bullet fired in the Brooklyn Day shooting went through Charlene Bowie’s upstairs window and grazed her granddaughter’s back. She later found it in her Bible.
The Bible that caught a bullet in Brooklyn Day shooting
Charlene Bowie’s Bible has a bullet lodged in Jeremiah, right between chapters 29 and 30.
It's been nearly one year since 30 people were shot — two fatally — during an annual Brooklyn Day block party at Brooklyn Homes.
A year after Brooklyn mass shooting, residents see progress: ‘It’s quiet now, but that’s right now’
The neighborhood is divided over whether Brooklyn Day is worth celebrating this year.
A bump stock is installed on an AK-47 at Good Guys Gun and Range on February 21, 2018 in Orem, Utah. The bump stock is a device when installed allows a semi-automatic to fire at a rapid rate much like a fully automatic gun. (Photo by George Frey/Getty Images)
Supreme Court strikes down federal bump stock ban; Maryland ban still in place
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday struck down a federal ban on bump stocks, a gun accessory that enables semiautomatic rifles to fire like machine guns and was used in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and a team of crime analysts from the University of Pennsylvania present findings from a new anti-violence report at a press conference on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. The report shows the impact of the city’s group violence reduction strategy throughout a 2022 pilot program run in the Western District of Baltimore.
Gun violence is falling across the country. How does Baltimore compare?
According to a new report from the Center for American Progress, Baltimore’s drop in gun violence through the first half of May this year ranks second among the 50 largest U.S. cities when compared to the same period in 2023.
A White House official at an event in Park Heights said Baltimore’s reduction in gun violence is the greatest success story in the nation. But progress can still be made, evidenced by a triple shooting that took place a few blocks away during the event.
How significant is Baltimore’s drop in gun violence? Ask the White House.
So stark is the continued decrease in homicides — Baltimore is down nearly 50% compared to the same period two years ago — that even the White House has taken notice.
A Baltimore Police vehicle is seen in Fells Point on April 14, 2024.
How a rental car helped Baltimore Police make an arrest in teen’s shooting death
Sinclair Broadcast Group President and CEO David Smith testifies before the Legislature’s Joint Government Oversight Committee meeting Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2007, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/The Des Moines Register, Doug Wells)
The many objections of David Smith
An attorney for the Sinclair chairman and Baltimore Sun owner objected to 64 questions in a recent deposition as part of a lawsuit Smith is funding against city schools.
Authorities say Kevin Wallace was 3D printing guns en masse at a rowhome on the city's east side. When a SWAT team raided the home in December 2022, they found a Christmas tree with unfinished handguns hung as ornaments.
Feds seek prison for Baltimore man who 3D-printed gun parts
Police found dozens of 3D-printed handgun components, in a variety of colors, that could be readily assembled into a usable weapon. Some were hanging like ornaments on an artificial Christmas tree.
Illustration shows three college students with notebooks standing on either side of a credit card machine that is blowing a protective bubble around a younger student sitting at a desk. Small bullets ricochet off the bubble.
Shark Tank U: Maryland students compete for $2M in private equity to reduce school shootings
A class of students at UMD, would-be entrepreneurs, have been given an opportunity to compete for $2 million in private equity seed funding. All they have to do to win it? Come up with a way to help detect and prevent school shooters.
Nick and Marilyn Mosby walk into a federal courthouse for a hearing.
The rise and fall of the House of Mosby
Nick Mosby’s last campaign looked a lot like that of his ex-wife, Marilyn Mosby. What happens next for the onetime Baltimore power couple is anyone’s guess.
Several federal agencies are probing the Dali crash that caused the collapse of the Key Bridge.
NTSB chair says investigators focusing on 2 ‘mechanically distinct’ outages aboard the Dali
Top federal safety and transportation officials probing the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse are testifying before Congress on Wednesday morning, giving lawmakers their second update on the ongoing investigations.
Wreckage from the collapsed Francis Scott Key bridge is seen on top of the cargo ship Dali from a boat in the Patapsco River on April 25, 2024.
NTSB report: Dali lost power day before strike; unclear if related to fatal outage
The ship that struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge and caused its collapse suffered power outages before it left port because of human error, but federal safety officials are still trying to figure out why it lost power in the moments before it hit the bridge.
As pro-Palestine demonstrations at Johns Hopkins University stretch into their second week, protesters are demanding the school cut ties with the Department of Defense, which awards billions to a Hopkins research lab.
Campus protesters want Johns Hopkins to divest. This lab is what they mean.
The Pentagon has awarded a university lab $12 billion over past decade. Pro-Palestinian protesters want that to end.
Crystal Parker, president of the North Avenue and Hilton Street Business & Community Task Force, speaks about issues her community is facing while walking up West North Avenue.
Sheila Dixon, a ‘filthy’ street and residents who want politicians to put up or shut up
Dixon brings up a stretch of North Avenue as part of her stump speech, she said, because she passes it on the way to her office or her gym and the conditions there are indicative of the state of the city.
Mayoral candidates Thiru Vignarajah and Sheila Dixon hug Wednesday as Vignarajah ended his campaign and endorsed Dixon.
Thiru Vignarajah as Baltimore’s top cop? He’s asked for the job at least twice.
In 2015, Vignarajah wanted then-mayoral candidate Elizabeth Embry to make him police commissioner if she won election. When a colleague objected, Vignarajah grew extremely annoyed.
Polymer80 80% frames for Glock Inc. pistols for sale at Hiram's Guns / Firearms Unknown store in El Cajon, California, U.S., on Monday, April 26, 2021.
Legal fight over ghost guns, Baltimore’s most common firearm, heads to Supreme Court
Ghost guns have become more common on American city streets, especially so in Baltimore. From June 2021 to the end of 2023, ghost guns were the most commonly recovered make of firearm in Baltimore.
At least 100 ships lost propulsion in waterways near Baltimore since 2010, according to a Baltimore Banner analysis of U.S. Coast Guard data.
Close calls: For years, ships lost propulsion near Key Bridge with little scrutiny
Since 2010, more than 100 ships have had engine or other mechanical troubles in the Chesapeake Bay and Patapsco River, including some perilously near the Key and Bay Bridges, a Banner investigation revealed.
The Dali cargo ship and the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge are seen from a Department of Natural Resources boat on the Patapsco River in Baltimore on April 10, 2024.
FBI opens criminal probe into Key Bridge collapse, raids Dali
Federal authorities opened a criminal investigation into the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, with FBI agents raiding the container ship Dali early Monday.
National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy leaves a news conference in Dundalk on March 26, 2024, after providing updates on the collapsed Francis Scott Key bridge.
Ship’s electrical system focus of Key Bridge investigation
Representatives from Hyundai, the ship’s manufacturer, have flown in from Korea to help investigators download data from the ship’s engine room and examine its electrical circuitry.
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