East Baltimore neighborhoods

Almost a year since advocates took the issue to city councilmembers, the city is making progress.

As 2023 winds down, The Banner’s photo staff culled through the thousands of pictures we filed this year to highlight some of the most memorable frames, stories and projects from across Baltimore and the surrounding region.

A Baltimore Banner data analysis from 2022 found that two neighborhoods on Orleans Street, Dunbar-Broadway and CARE, have had the first- and third-highest accident rates per resident when looking at the more densely populated parts of the city.

Keith Luckey faces charges of second-degree murder, use of a handgun during the commission of a crime of violence, reckless endangerment and related offenses in the deadly shooting of Kevin Torres on Nov. 7, 2022.

At its latest round of open houses, the Maryland Transit Administration provided numbers from new data modeling for residents to consider

After a halfway-constructed senior center was burned down in East Baltimore, a partnership emerged between a pastor and a mortgage broker. Their collaboration has provided meals and holiday gifts to families across the city.

Stretches of Orleans Street block pedestrian access and are a threat to neighborhood children, Fatima Wilkerson, a Southeast Baltimore resident and community activist, says.

More than 1,000 cars have been stolen in Baltimore every month since June.

Alternative 1, a light rail tunnel option that most closely resembles an alignment that was canceled by former Gov. Larry Hogan in 2015, wins out on projected travel time and overall ridership, as well as trips from zero-car households.

Councilman Ryan Dorsey said he asked city officials to have a plan of action “within a month” and that he hopes they will implement it “before the end of the year.”

Lidl officially signed a lease for a 36,000-square-foot space this past February in the Perkins-Somerset-Oldtown footprint, ending a long hunt for a grocer in the area.

Linda Malat Tiburzi, a survivor of the notorious child rapist John Merzbacher while a student at the Catholic Community School of Baltimore in the 1970s, died at age 62. She was an advocate for survivors of abuse and rejoiced at the release of the Office of the Maryland Attorney General’s report on child sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

City officials said Wednesday they now expect a completion next spring.

Dwyer Workforce Development, a nonprofit and health care career training program, is partnering with Southern Baptist Church to put a resource center in East Baltimore that will train health care workers.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley declined to identify what types of guns were used but said two weapons were identified through ballistics evidence. The victims have been “as helpful as they could,” Worley said, but have so far been unable to identify the gunmen.

Dr. Joseph Sakran decided to work in medicine after becoming a victim of gun violence as a teenager.

Investigators are asking for help identifying the four people seen in the video.

Homecoming at a historically black college like Morgan State University is more than a football game. It represents an opportunity to see familiar faces and new ones.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley said at a Wednesday morning press conference that the shooting likely stemmed from a dispute between “two smaller groups.”

Students say they're still grappling with the events of Tuesday night.