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In this image released by the National Transportation Safety Board, NTSB investigators inspect the cargo vessel Dali, which struck and collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
Key Bridge collapse investigations: What we know and don’t know
An NTSB spokesperson wrote in an email it would be a few weeks before the safety board’s preliminary incident report is released.
The Dali sustained a lot of damage from the bridge, as evident in this large hole in its side.
New images offer up-close look at Dali, Key Bridge wreckage
This is what the Dali and Key Bridge wreckage looks like within 100 feet of the scene.
Marcel Muise, investigator in charge, shares updates from the NTSB’s investigation into the Dali cargo ship collision with the Francis Scott Key Bridge at the DoubleTree Hotel-BWI Airport in Linthicum Heights, Maryland on Wednesday, March 27, 2024.
Meet Marcel Muise, the investigator leading the NTSB’s probe of the Key Bridge collapse
Marcel Muise, a marine casualty investigator who served in the U.S. Coast Guard and captained the Deepwater Horizon oil rig before joining the NTSB, has a wealth of experience.
A portion of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed after it was struck by a large container ship early Tuesday morning, March 26, 2024, sending several vehicles and people into the frigid water below.
NTSB to investigate whether ‘dirty fuel’ contributed to Key Bridge collapse
Total power failures like the one the Dali experienced before hitting the Key Bridge are rare, possibly caused by faulty equipment or contaminated fuel, experts said.
A U.S. Coast Guard boat heads toward the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge wreckage seen from Fort McHenry on March 26, 2024.
NTSB: Key Bridge’s ‘fracture critical’ design raised odds of collapse
Recovery efforts at the bridge collapse site are underway, while federal transportation safety investigators were boarding the ship and collecting evidence.
The cargo ship Dali rests on the Patapsco River after crashing into and collapsing the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
Investigators boarded Dali overnight, retrieved ship’s black box, NTSB official says
Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board boarded the ship that hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge and retrieved its black box, sending the data to a lab for analysis.
Poor visibility of the view of the Dali from Riviera Beach on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. Recovery efforts may be slowed because of the weather.
Did state’s warning make it to construction crew on Key Bridge?
MDTA officers were able to stop traffic. But why were eight workers still on the bridge when it collapsed?
The Francis Scott Key bridge collapsed on Tuesday, March 26, 2024, after being struck by a ship overnight.
‘The whole bridge just fell down.’ The final minutes before the Key Bridge collapsed
Video, police and fire dispatch audio, ship location data and statements from officials capture the minutes leading up to one of the largest infrastructure disasters in Maryland’s history.
A U.S. Coast Guard boat heads toward the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge wreckage seen from Ft. McHenry on March 26, 2024. The bridge collapsed early Tuesday morning when a cargo ship collided with it.
Murky waters, low visibility complicating search for 6 missing construction workers in Francis Scott Key bridge collapse
Search and rescue efforts have been underway since before daybreak.
Baltimore Orioles and Boston Red Sox fans in seats near the outfield watch a baseball game at Camden Yards on Monday, April 24. The Orioles beat the Red Sox, 5-4, in the first game of the series.
An ode to the center field bleachers, the best seats in Camden Yards
Come Thursday, baseball will return to Camden Yards, marking the actual official start of spring here in Baltimore. Here’s why you should spend the season in the bleachers.
The U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals hears federal cases from Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina.
Goodbye gun control? Maryland lawsuit could undo gun laws everywhere
The federal court’s decision, depending on which way and how aggressively it rules, could have serious implications for any laws restricting gun ownership.
There has been a rise in gunshot violence with youth in Baltimore.
Shootings among high school teens in Baltimore finally decreasing
While shootings victimizing teens between ages 13 and 18 remain above pre-pandemic levels, they have fallen sharply this year compared to the same time period in 2023, according to a Baltimore Banner analysis of police data.
A semi-automatic pistol with a conversion device installed making it fully automatic is fired as four empty shell casings fly out of the weapon. The country has seen a new surge of weapons capable of automatic fire. Small pieces of plastic or metal used to convert legal guns into homemade machine guns are helping to fuel gun violence.
Baltimore has a machine gun problem
More and more, Glock switches — tiny devices that turn a handgun fully automatic — are appearing on city streets.
Former Loyola University Maryland and Southwestern High School standout Jamal Barney, pictured in 2011, was found dead in a vacant rowhome in October 2023.
Arrest made in death of former Loyola Maryland basketball standout Jamal Barney
Authorities charged a Baltimore man with murder, accusing him of killing Jamal Barney, a former basketball standout at Loyola University Maryland and Southwestern High School.
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.
Baltimore-area men impersonated cops, tortured carjacking victims
A four-man crew impersonated police officers to carjack and kidnap people throughout Baltimore, Baltimore County and Harford County, according to federal court records
Delroy Plummer, 68, died Jan. 24 after Tony Jones, a mechanic at Fix It All Repairs, shot him in the chest in the shop’s office.
Charges downgraded in fatal shooting of truck driver that witnesses say was accidental
Tony Jones now faces a charge of involuntary manslaughter, a far less serious charge than first- or second-degree murder.
Rob Mealey recounts his experience of an attempted carjacking that occurred in 2022 while he was driving his two young kids home in Baltimore. He got away, but the effect the incident had on him and his children still lingers, he said.
‘Everyone loses.’ An attempted carjacking and what gets left behind
Maryland Attorney General Organized Crime Unit Chief Paul Halliday, center, talks about an investigation that led to six people being indicted in connection to dozens of carjackings and a murder. Also pictured, from left: Attorney General Anthony Brown, Assistant Attorney General Katie Dorian, ATF Assistant Special Agent Joseph Persails and Mayor Brandon Scott.
Maryland Attorney General, Baltimore Police say local gang behind dozens of carjackings
The group, four adults and two juveniles, are accused of committing at least nine commercial robberies and 35 armed carjackings throughout the Baltimore area, mostly from April 2022 to March 2023.
Gilman Hall at the Johns Hopkins Homewood Campus.
Johns Hopkins University faculty committee demand City Council hearing over police force
“The worst case scenario that I have in my head is a member of the Hopkins police force using violence to adjudicate an issue with somebody either in this community or in the surrounding ones,” Councilwoman Odette Ramos said.
Police recovered this gun, a Polymer80 with an extended magazine, after a car chase involving a teenager and a stolen car in Lochraven last October.
1 in 5 guns on Baltimore’s streets don’t have serial numbers. That’s a problem.
A Banner analysis of newly obtained police data shows ghost guns make up 20% of crime-related guns in Baltimore.
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