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South Baltimore neighborhoods

    Letter: Why should polluters profit while communities like Curtis Bay suffer?
    A reader says the CSX coal terminal is a stark example of how powerful industries disproportionately affect underserved communities like Curtis Bay.
    Multiple homes near the CSX Plant in Dundalk were seen decorated with “No Coal In Curtis Bay” signs on July 31, 2024.
    Brewers Hill apartment building declared safe after partial pool collapse
    A rooftop pool leak lead to the evacuation of the Axel Brewers Hill Apartments, fire officials said Friday.
    Baltimore firefighters and engineers examine the building’s pool after it leaked and the deck appeared to buckle.
    One person dies in Cherry Hill shooting
    One unidentified male is dead after being shot multiple times in South Baltimore, police said Monday night.
    Police tape seen at the intersection of Pennsylvania Ave and Lauren Street.
    Letters: Ballot measure to cut City Council size will hurt Black participation
    A reader says the ballot measure to cut the size of the Baltimore City Council will diminish the political participation of Black citizens.
    Baltimore City Hall.
    8-year-old pulled from Dundalk house fire dies; blaze ruled accidental
    Nolan Mars was found by fire crews in a second-floor bedroom and taken to the hospital with critical injuries.
    Six people were hospitalized Wednesday morning after a house fire in Dundalk.
    Nick’s Fish House sells to its longtime operators
    Online property records show the property changed hands in July for $750,000.
    Nick’s Fish House may look a little different soon.
    Letters: Giant Food grocery curfew unfairly blames youths for crime
    Grocery stores targeting youths with curfews sends the harmful and inaccurate message that young people are primarily responsible for crime and shoplifting, says Hannah Stommel, a Zubrow fellow at the Juvenile Law Center.
    Two Giant grocery stores in Baltimore are implementing a youth supervision policy to combat what the company calls a recent rise in theft.
    What it’s like to live in Curtis Bay, Baltimore’s pollution epicenter
    Curtis Bay residents run higher risks of health problems like heart disease and cancer from long-term exposure to pollution, research shows. It takes a mental toll, too.
    Angie Shaneyfelt stands on her porch in Curtis Bay on July 31, 2024.
    The neighborhood just wanted a crosswalk. They found out Baltimore doesn’t make it easy.
    It wasn’t supposed to be this complicated but it was. It would take about a year and a half to get a handful of plastic bollards installed, bolt a pedestrian sign into the road and some paint at an intersection, according to the people involved.
    A yellow sign, warning cars about pedestrians, is shown in the middle of a roadway intersection. Cars and trees line the road and a couple of large skyscrapers are in the background.
    Letters: Mayor must fix ‘deplorable’ conditions at DPW
    A reader says the mayor must fix the “deplorable, inhumane” working conditions at the Department of Public Works sanitation yards after a worker died while on his route.
    A sanitation truck offloads waste for Baltimore’s Department of Public Works. A solid waste laborer died while working a sanitation route in Northeast Baltimore’s Barclay neighborhood on Friday, according to an official statement from the city.
    As Jumbo Fresh opens in Southwest Baltimore, a sense of excitement — and fear of failure
    More than a year and a half of waiting after Price Rite closed, grocery store Jumbo Fresh opened in Mount Clare Junction.
    The new Jumbo Fresh grocery store located in Mount Clare Junction.
    A Hanover Street bridge makeover is in the works — but it could take a while
    The federal funds will be used to plan improvements along the Hanover Street Corridor, including sidewalks, new bike lanes and better connections to waterfront parks and trails.
    Baltimore has started a multiyear planning process to come up with improvements to the Route 2 corridor through South Baltimore.
    How public financing and a little bit of Reddit helped oust a City Hall veteran
    Some of Eric Costello’s errors were self-inflicted. One voter said his endorsement of Sheila Dixon for mayor “betrayed the public trust.”
    Zac Blanchard, a candidate for Baltimore City Council's 12th District, poses for a portrait outside the Baltimore City Board of Election's warehouse on Thursday, May 16.
    In record-breaking heat, OIG finds broken AC, inoperable water fountains at public works facility
    The inspector general made an emergency visit to the Cherry Hill Department of Public Works Facility early Wednesday morning and released the report just hours later.
    An industrial trash can filled with melted ice and bottled water was found at a Baltimore Department of Public Works facility in south Baltimore, July 10, 2024.
    Policing Baltimore’s Federal Hill when you’re not the police
    Federal Hill turned to private security after high-profile crimes in the neighborhood left people feeling unsafe.
    Brian Askew overlooks Key Highway and Rash Field Park in Baltimore.
    1 dead, 3 others rescued from the water near Port Covington
    Baltimore Police and firefighters were called to the 2600 block of Port Covington Drive at around 5:50 p.m. Saturday to a report of multiple people in the water, said Lindsey Eldridge, a spokesperson for the Baltimore Police Department.
    Baltimore Fire Department firefighters and dive team members pack up after rescuing three people from the water near Port Covington, June 22, 2024. A fourth person drowned.
    Child who died after being found in water left house earlier that morning, police say
    Marcel Traoren was last seen in Dundalk early Friday around 5 a.m., police said. The child was reported missing, and a search was launched around 7 a.m.
    Baltimore County Police took to the water Friday, June 21, 2024, to search for 6-year-old Marcel Traore, who disappeared earlier that day from a house near Dundalk. He was found in the water near Lynch Cove and died later in the day at a hospital.
    Dali set to leave Baltimore next week as some crew are now cleared to leave US
    The Dali was scheduled to head from Seagirt to Norfolk Friday, but that has been bumped to next week. The latest tentative estimate for when the ship will be moved is at noon Monday.
    A worker (bottom right) inspects shipping containers on the cargo ship Dali on April 25, 2024. The ship toppled the Francis Scott Key Bridge when it lost control of its navigational system in March.
    Dali crew members cleared to leave the country, but lawyers seek to keep them in U.S. longer
    In a motion and emails filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, claimants’ lawyer Andrew O’Connell says there’s no guaranteed way to make the crew members available for future questioning if they leave the country.
    The cargo ship Dali, which toppled the Francis Scott Key bridge when it crashed into it in March, is seen in the Patapsco River on April 25, 2024.
    Baltimore Police release body camera footage of South Baltimore fatal shooting
    Baltimore Police release video of shooting that left a 39-year-old man dead and one police officer hospitalized.
    Baltimore Police released officer body camera footage Wednesday of a South Baltimore shooting that left 39-year-old Anthony Ferguson dead and a detective hospitalized May 24 on South Hanover Street in Fairfield.
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