West Baltimore neighborhoods

The Independent Investigations Division of the Maryland Office of the Attorney General said Friday that Robert Phillip Nedd Jr. of Baltimore died Wednesday in the fatal shooting involving police officers.

Baltimore police officers shot and killed a man following a pursuit in the Upton neighborhood Wednesday night, the department said.

Eric Holder, the former U.S. Attorney General and renowned civil rights leader, delivered an inaugural speech in a lecture series created to honor the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

A reader says the ballot measure to cut the size of the Baltimore City Council will diminish the political participation of Black citizens.

The railroad company is asking Baltimore’s City Council to sign off on the rights to build under public land. But residents want them to wait.

ParentChild+ will send early learning specialists into 30 toddlers’ homes and day care locations twice a week, bearing educational gifts and guidance for caregivers.

The proposed bike trail from Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park to Druid Hill Park would be dangerous, a reader says, but an alternate route would make sense.

The five fires, which all broke out in the afternoons or evenings in late July, exclusively erupted at elementary/middle school facilities, according to incident reports.

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.

A proposal to link The Greenway Trails Network between Druid Hill and Leakin parks has left some trail advocates scratching their heads.

The smallest and least suspecting victims of Baltimore’s opioid epidemic are young children. Since 2020, 15 young children have died of overdose.

La Cité Development was supposed to break ground on an age-restricted apartment complex for older adults this year. Instead, the developer missed a key financing deadline.

Gentrification? A football field? Residents can't see to get a straight answer on when the reservoir will hold water again.

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.

Authorities have released few details about the Monday night shooting, which follows two others that unfolded under similar circumstances last year in Baltimore. All three encounters escalated quickly, starting when officers saw someone on the street and believed they could be armed.

The Department of Public Works is investigating how water got into the gas lines, prompting the company to shut off service in the area for multiple days.

More than a year and a half of waiting after Price Rite closed, grocery store Jumbo Fresh opened in Mount Clare Junction.

University of Maryland Faculty Physicians plans to open a doctors’ office at Mondawmin Mall, aiming to fulfill a community need.

According to the Baltimore County Fire Department, just after 11:36 a.m. Wednesday, responders were called to the 1500 block of Langford Road after neighbors saw flames and smelled smoke coming from the second floor of a home.

The Edmondson Community Organization filed the case on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore.