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    A group of pigs race during the Pigtown Festival in Baltimore, MD on September 30, 2023.
    Photos: Pigtown celebrates its history with Squeakness races
    Pigtown’s name dates to the late 1800s, when pigs were herded through the streets on the way to the slaughterhouse.
    Tameka Lynbrith, mother of Kylis Fagbemi, who was killed in the Brooklyn Homes shooting in July, digs the hole for her son's memorial tree at the Brooklyn Healing Day event on Saturday
    Photos: Brooklyn neighbors gather for healing
    Community volunteers gathered to create flower beds and plant flowers and two memorial trees for the victims of the July 2 Brooklyn Homes mass shooting.
    Zeke’s Coffee on Harford Road, Baltimore’s renowned family-owned coffee shop, always stands out with its commitment to small-batch brewing.
    Baltimore’s best coffee shops offer more than a good morning cup of Joe
    Independent coffee shops with with their own flavor and flair offer people something beyond the big chains.
    Howard County sheriff’s deputy Ryan Demby.
    Off-duty Howard County deputy fatally shot in Baltimore’s Federal Hill neighborhood; arrest made
    A bargoer as well as an official briefed on the investigation said the incident started with an altercation inside of Wayward Bar & Kitchen, and that the participants were thrown out.
    The Domino Sugar plant has four new silos that have increased the capacity of refined sugar the plant is able to store.
    Domino Sugar plant, survivor of Baltimore’s industrial past, doubles down on local production
    Plant spokesman Peter O’Malley said the new silos, which each can store 3.5 million pounds of refined sugar, have quadrupled the plant’s total capacity.
    Little Amal, a twelve-foot puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee girl, visits City Hall to meet Mayor Brandon Scott and the children of Baltimore on September 15, 2023.
    Little Amal brings joy, hopeful message during stop in Baltimore
    The puppet brings people together through cultural celebrations in neighborhoods where refugees have built communities.
    Footage from a Baltimore Police CitiWatch camera shows that a 45-foot elm tree obstructed the camera's view of the Brooklyn Homes mass shooting. This screenshot was taken from footage recorded the day before the block party. It was obtained by The Banner through a public records request. (CitiWatch footage from the Baltimore Police Department)
    Pivotal footage of the Brooklyn Homes mass shooting may have been blocked by a tree
    Days after the shooting, the Housing Authority of Baltimore City cut the tree down, but the camera now faces a different direction.
    Footage from a Baltimore Police CitiWatch camera shows that a 45-foot Elm tree obstructed the camera's view of the Brooklyn Homes mass shooting. This screenshot was taken from footage recorded the day before the mass shooting. It was obtained by The Banner through a public records request. (CitiWatch footage from the Baltimore Police Department)
    Views of Brooklyn Homes courtyard from CitiWatch Cameras
    These photos show the different viewpoints BPD's CitiWatch cameras had into the main courtyard of Brooklyn Homes, where the mass shooting occurred.
    Anna Barron performs the national anthems of the U.S. and Ukraine at the Baltimore Ukrainian Festival.
    Pierogi and patriots at Baltimore’s Ukrainian Festival
    Vendors in stalls on Montford sold blintzes, jewelry, trinkets and shots of a honey liqueur called medivka. Cooks served stuffed cabbage, pierogis, potato pancakes and borscht. Although the overtone was quaint and festive, thoughts of the war in Ukraine were present.
    A cleaning crew member rakes garbage at the crime scene on Elarton Court in Brooklyn following a shooting on Sunday, July 2, 2023.
    BPD defends cleanup of Brooklyn Homes crime scene. Experts think it was flawed.
    The Baltimore Police Department defended its cleanup of the Brooklyn Homes crime scene. Experts have said it was flawed.
    Bullet casings are marked off near Glade Court in Brooklyn following a shooting early Sunday morning, July 2.
    Baltimore Police supervisors failed to act on warnings before Brooklyn mass shooting, report finds
    A 100-page report by the Baltimore Police Department on its response reveals an agency disconnected from the community it serves.
    Harris Teeter at Locust Point in Baltimore, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023.
    Harris Teeter in Locust Point still closed after infestation
    A Harris Teeter employee said that while the pest issue had been addressed, the grocery store was undergoing a deep cleaning and other maintenance that caused it to remain closed five days after its initial shuttering.
    The Baltimore Montessori school in South Baltimore pictured on August 10, 2023. (Meredith Cohn/The Baltimore Banner)
    What happens when a day care center abruptly closes? Some Baltimore parents found out.
    The emergency suspension at Baltimore Montessori may be a harbinger of a growing crisis in the child care industry that often struggles to pay the bills and doesn’t have enough willing and qualified workers.
    Anne Beck, 33, performs a platform lift in the "Sad and Lonely Tale of Mr. Bottle" scene..
    Telling the story of Baltimore’s water infrastructure system through … water ballet?
    Fluid Movement, the aquatic-based performing arts group, used sinkholes, the Stool Fairy, Mr. Bottle, Mr. Trash Wheel and more in their performance explaining how the water in our city works.
    A Baltimore Police detective’s handcuffs are secured on his belt as he observes the crowd in between innings during a baseball game against the Oakland Athletics held at Camden Yards on Wednesday, April 12. The Orioles beat the Athletics, 8-7, to win the series.
    Brooklyn Homes mass shooting victim faces charges in separate gunfire incident
    Investigators have filed multiple gun-related charges against 18-year-old Aaron Brown, who is accused of trying to shoot another person in Northeast Baltimore on May 19.
    Shashawnda Campbell poses for a portrait behind Curtis Bay Recreation Center, in Baltimore.
    Harm City: On a ‘Toxic Tour’ of Curtis Bay, academics and activists see a hidden part of Baltimore
    Curtis Bay may be Baltimore’s most polluted community, surrounded by industrial facilities strangling the rowhouse neighborhood. The city wants to close a local recreation center to make way for even more industry, continuing what activists say have been decades of environmental racism.
    Claudia Towles, just left of center, is arrested by a Baltimore Police officer during a protest on Warren Avenue next to Federal Hill on Thursday, June 22.
    Charges dropped for women arrested protesting BGE external regulators in Federal Hill
    Bates said the charges against the three women would have been dropped after they completed five hours of community service through Baltimore’s citation docket program. They spent "approximately 19 hours" in Central Booking, he said.
    9:01 a.m.: A cleaning crew member rakes garbage at the crime scene on Elarton Court in Brooklyn after the mass shooting July 2.
    Why did police call for cleaners before processing mass shooting scene?
    Baltimore Police said they allowed the cleaning of "debris" before they finished processing the scene of the city's largest mass shooting in recent memory. Experts say valuable DNA evidence could have been lost in the process.
    Loved ones hold a vigil in honor of Kylis Fagbemi, 20, on July 11. Fagbemi was shot and killed at a Brooklyn Homes block party on July 2.
    Brooklyn mass shooting victim Kylis Fagbemi remembered at funeral Friday
    Fagbemi, 20, was a forklift operator at Amazon and Kohl’s who had big dreams of becoming a traveling ultrasound technician. He had recently signed up for a certification course, according to his family.
    Paul Milewski of Wisconsin,  Robert Koontz, 79, of Waldorf MD, and William Bach of South Carolina, compete in the 100-meter at South Fayette High School, in McDonald, PA, during the National Senior Games, Wednesday, July 12, 2023.
    Too old for gold? Not these senior athletes.
    More than 1,000 medal events took place over twelve 12 days in 21 different, sports including basketball, swimming, table tennis, track and field, and badminton.
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