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    Debbie Simon, Baltimore businesswoman and faithful Christian, had a ‘servant’s heart’
    Debbie Simon, a Baltimore businesswoman, loving mother and dedicated community volunteer, died Aug. 1 after a long battle with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. She was 67.
    Debbie Simon.
    The program making some Baltimore youth top job candidates in a tough economy
    The Baltimore YouthWorks program is making teens top job candidates in today's tough economy. Here are some highlights from this summer's workers.
    Youthworks participant Linzy Flores, a rising junior at Western High School, works on her digital art at Art with A Heart on August 4, 2025. The designs will then be put on tangible art, like tote bags, that people can purchase.
    5 things to know about the first Marine superintendent of the Naval Academy
    Things to know about Lt. Gen. Michael Borgschulte, the first Marine to become Naval Academy superintendent.
    Lt. Gen. Michael J. Borgschulte addresses attendees at the Naval Academy Superintendent’s Change of Command ceremony in Annapolis on Friday.
    They’re feeding the hungry. Then guarding the door from ICE.
    Montgomery County organizers say the fear surrounding ICE raids have reshaped people's access to food, and what they're willing to do to get it.
    Rev. Diana Wingeier-Rayo hands out numbered cards to people arriving for a weekly food distribution event at Hughes United Methodist Church in Wheaton earlier this month.
    Maryland official says start your school routines now. Here’s what to do about sleep.
    After a summer of vacations and late nights, it’s time to set those back-to-school alarms.
    Students arrive to Nottingham Middle School for the first day of school on Monday, Aug. 26, 2024 in Rosedale, MD.
    After weeks in ICE custody, Maryland pastor embraced by family in emotional homecoming
    Daniel Fuentes Espinal, the Maryland pastor arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in late July, is finally free and back with his family in Easton.
    Daniel Fuentes Espinal, the Maryland pastor who was arrested by ICE in late July, embracing his daughter Clarissa outside of the detention center in Louisiana on August 14, 2025. His daughter Clarissa Fuentes Diaz took the photos. She has given us permission to use them in the future.
    One dead after 2-vehicle collision in Owings Mills, police say
    Baltimore County Police and paramedics responded to the crash at Newtown Boulevard and Middle Mill Drive around 11:20 a.m. They found a victim trapped inside a car.
    Baltimore County Police and paramedics responded to the crash at Newtown Boulevard and Middle Mill Drive around 11:20 a.m.
    Rep. Andy Harris enters partisan fray in Somerset County schools battle
    The monthslong tug-of-war between state and county officials has caught the attention of Andy Harris, Maryland’s lone Republican in Congress.
    WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 18: Rep. Andy Harris (R., Md.) speaks during a news conference on the proposed continuing resolution to extend government funding through March 14, on Capitol Hill on December 18, 2024 in Washington, DC. Allies of President-elect Trump criticized a massive government funding bill unveiled Tuesday, urging lawmakers to oppose it ahead of a looming deadline and complicating efforts by House GOP leaders, while Trump himself has yet to weigh in.
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    ‘The school’ a Georgetown educator built in her East Baltimore neighborhood
    A woman's home in East Baltimore is helping heal her block in the McElderry Park community. Arrealia Gavins, a Georgetown University educator, has run a summer tutoring program and parent to child counseling.
    Arrealia Gavins in her living room during a session at Realia Early Care and Education in Baltimore.
    Baltimore County welcomes new Wawa as police beat firefighters in ‘Hoagies for Heroes’
    A new Wawa opened Thursday at 8100 Belair Rd. in Nottingham, Baltimore County.
    @BaltCoFire
 and #BCoPD faced off at the grand opening of Wawa on Belair Rd for the coveted “Hoagie Hero” crown. The heat was on, but the members from Parkville Precinct clinched victory by crafting three boxes of hoagies faster than the fire crew could say “extra mayo!”
    ‘Not a call that you get regularly’: How this towing company helped firefighters rescue a horse
    Bruce Leibowitz of Rockdale Towing Company received a call to help remove a horse from an 8-to-10-foot-deep pit in Reisterstown, one of the strangest things he’s had to move in his 30-year career.
    The Baltimore County Fire Department and Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services Special Ops safely rescued a horse from a pit on Thursday, August 14, 2025.
    Howard County officer fatally struck a 93-year-old pedestrian in Columbia
    A 93-year-old woman is dead after an on-duty Howard County Police officer struck her with an unmarked vehicle in a Columbia shopping center parking lot early Friday morning.
    Police said an on-duty, plainclothes officer was pulling out of a parking space in an unmarked 2019 GMC Acadia when the vehicle fatally struck a 93-year-old woman.
    ‘We will cultivate a warrior ethos’: Lt. Gen. Borgschulte becomes first Marine to lead Naval Academy
    Marine Lt. Gen. Michael Borgschulte assumed command of the U.S. Naval Academy at a ceremony Friday afternoon.
    Lt. Gen. Michael Borgschulte addresses attendees as he assumes command of the U.S. Naval Academy on Friday.
    Lightning strike sparks Pikesville apartment fire that displaced 6 families, killed dog
    Lightning struck a Pikesville apartment building, sparking a three-alarm blaze that caused a partial roof collapse, displaced over a dozen people and killed at least one dog, fire officials said.
    The Baltimore County Fire Department responds to a 2-alarm apartment fire on the 1800 block of Rambling Ridge Lane in Pikesville on Thursday, August 14, 2025.
    Baltimore’s Mr. Trash Wheel is calling on his biggest fans for a new project
    Baltimore’s world-famous aquatic trash interceptor, Mr. Trash Wheel, is inviting friends and fans to appear as extras in a music video for The Mr. Trash Wheel Song.
    If you’ve ever wanted to be in a music video — and are obsessed with Baltimore’s trash-collecting water wheels — now’s your chance.
    Sharp Leadenhall Apartment tenants file suit alleging dangerous conditions
    More than a dozen tenants of Sharp Leadenhall Apartments in South Baltimore filed a lawsuit against their landlord, alleging a multitude of severe and pervasive issues.
    Betty Bland-Thomas stands at the front with staff from Maryland Legal Aid and another speaker at the press conference on Wednesday, August 13 in Sharp Leadenhall..
    Acquitted Anne Arundel County teacher assigned to location with no students, district says
    Anne Arundel County school teacher Matthew Schlegel, who was acquitted of criminal charges, remains fully employed, according to a district spokesperson.
    Parents have called for the school system to terminate the acquitted elementary school teacher.
    Baltimore will accept opioid deal that cuts lawsuit winnings nearly in half
    Baltimore decided to accept court winnings of $152 million from a pair of drug distributors in its opioid lawsuit, a little more than half of what a jury awarded the city late last year.
    Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said Thursday the city’s law department chose to accept court winnings of $152 million from a pair of drug distributors in its opioid lawsuit.
    Letter: Let’s make the Inner Harbor more accessible — including for swimmers
    Dan Taylor, president of the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore, says we need to make Baltimore’s Inner Harbor more accessible to everyone — including swimmers.
    Paddlers and kayakers head back to Canton Waterfront Park from the Inner Harbor during Floatilla in 2023.
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