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    Potentially dangerous heat wave expected in Maryland next week
    High temperatures could reach 96 degrees in Baltimore next week.
    A man running away from the camera's t-shirt is drenched with sweat.
    An unprecedented epidemic: This is where people die of overdoses in Baltimore
    A yearlong investigation recently published by The Baltimore Banner and The New York Times revealed an unprecedented overdose crisis gripping Baltimore.
    Nearly 6,000 people have died from overdoses in the last six years, the worst drug crisis ever seen in a major American city. (Ryan Little/The Baltimore Banner. Original photo by Jessica Gallagher/The Baltimore Banner.)
    Strangers making small talk bonded over connection to overdose victim
    One of the last people to see Devon Wellington alive, before he overdosed in 2021, has developed a relationship with the man’s mother. She taught him how to use Narcan, and they recently attended a street renaming event together.
    Donna Bruce waves her praise flags through the newly renamed street, Devon Wellington’s Way after the ceremonial street signing, in Baltimore, June 5, 2024.
    Commentary: How Gov. Moore’s plan transitioning away from gas, oil and propane appliances will reduce air pollution
    Properly implementing Gov. Wes Moore's executive order to establish air standards for heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems and water heaters will mean healthier Maryland communities, the president of the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative says.
    Officials applaud Maryland Gov. Wes Moore after signing an executive order on climate change on Tuesday, June 4, 2024 at Elmer A. Henderson: A Johns Hopkins Partnership School in East Baltimore. Seated next to the governor is Secretary of State Susan Lee. Top row, from left: Kim Coble of the Maryland League of Conservation Voters; Environment Secretary Serena McIlwain; Maryland Energy Administration Director Paul Pinsky; Transportation Secretary Paul Wiedefeld; Natural Resources Secretary Josh Kurtz; and Meghan Conklin, the state's chief sustainability officer.
    Baltimore opted out of Maryland’s opioid settlement. Now it’s getting $45 million.
    Baltimore has settled with pharmaceutical company Allergan for $45 million, a big win compared to the amount the city would have received had it joined Maryland in a similar agreement.
    Lisa Filer and Jon Filer left sunflowers and a letter to their son Aidan Filer outside of Starlight Liquors in Baltimore, MD on July 20, 2023. Filer passed away from a fentanyl overdose in this spot while inside of his vehicle three years prior.
    A Baltimore educator’s family tragedy refocused her teaching on mental health
    It’s difficult for teachers to balance catching students up academically and attending to their mental health. Kat Locke-Jones may have cracked the code.
    Kate Locke Jones, a seventh grade English teacher poses for a portrait inside of her classroom at Hampstead Hill Academy, May 22, 2024.
    Anne Arundel eyes modern library to replace 55-year-old Glen Burnie branch
    County Executive Steuart Pittman's proposed budget includes $49 million to build a new Glen Burnie library to replace the existing one, which was opened in 1969 and is considered outdated.
    A young child uses the computer at the Glen Burnie Library.
    Step by step: Anne Arundel running event aims to raise awareness about veteran, service member suicide
    Pasadena veteran Kyle Butters launched the running event to raise awareness for veterans who have died by suicide, suffered from PTSD and other mental health challenges.
    Flags placed by members of the Young Marines and Girl Scouts marking the gravesites of veterans are reflected in a statue at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens in Timonium on May 25, 2024.
    Hospitals are crowded. One sued a patient for trespassing to empty a bed.
    The 83-year-old patient was stable enough to leave MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital. When he refused, the hospital sued.
    Hospital beds in an emergency room.
    The world wants American coal. Curtis Bay residents say they pay the price.
    Greenhouse gas emissions are coming down in Maryland. But record levels of coal leaving Baltimore are driving emissions overseas.
    A large pile of coal can be seen from the surrounding neighborhood outside of the CSX facility in Curtis Bay on Aug. 4, 2023.
    Maryland finalizes switch of medical care for state-run prisons, jails
    Centurion of Maryland will take over providing medical and mental health care to an estimated 20,000 people who are incarcerated in state-run prisons and jails. The officials who signed off on the deal expressed frustration with the process.
    Photo collage showing, in top half, fence topped with barbed wire, and in bottom half, spotlight on a man’s arm as he lays in bed and receives blood transfusion through an IV.
    Prince George’s County man marks Maryland’s first heat-related death of 2024
    A 59-year-old man who died recently in Prince George’s County marks Maryland’s first heat-related death this year, the Maryland Department of Health said Wednesday.
    A man running away from the camera's t-shirt is drenched with sweat.
    Carlton R. Smith: LGBTQ advocate, ‘mayor’ of Mount Vernon, passes away
    Carlton R. Smith, a fixture in the city who advocated for Black and brown members of the LGBTQ community and was currently fighting to decriminalize HIV in the state, died in his sleep May 29 in his Mount Vernon condominium. He was 61.
    Carlton R. Smith, an LGBTQ advocate, died May 29. He was 61.
    Seniors in Baltimore are being devastated by drugs: 5 takeaways
    The city has become the U.S. overdose capital, and older Black men are dying at higher rates than anyone else.
    A person receives Narcan from Bmore POWER on Arlington Avenue in Baltimore on Thursday, December 14, 2023.
    A horrific number of older Black men are dying from overdoses in Baltimore
    Many are dying from fentanyl and other drugs. The hardest-hit are Black men in their 50s to 70s, a group that Baltimore’s changing economy left behind.
    How to get naloxone (Narcan) in Maryland — and how to use it
    Naloxone is a medication that can reverse an opioid overdose.
    NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 01: In this photo illustration, A Narcan nasal overdose kit, given out free by the city of New York, is displayed as part of the Brooklyn Community Recovery Center's demonstration on how to use Narcan to revive a person in the case of a drug overdose on September 01, 2022 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Nearly one million people have died of drug overdose deaths in America in the past two decades, with an increasing majority of those deaths due to synthetic opioids like fentanyl. The Brooklyn Community Recovery Center handed out packs of Narcan nasal spray before holding a brief vigil to those lives lost due to drug overdoses.
    Community health workers were essential during COVID. Now, they’re asking for help.
    There is a move afoot to help expand and pay for a what been a largely hidden workforce in Maryland of community health workers, who help marginalized people get health care and other services though they often go without.
    Linda Flores is a community health worker through Latino Health Initiative.
    A striking number of people say they know someone who overdosed
    One-third of U.S. adults know someone who has overdosed and died, a Johns Hopkins survey found.
    A billboard spreading awareness about the dangers of fentanyl usage seen near Mondawmin Mall on Feb. 7, 2024.
    No, really. 150 people are jumping in the Inner Harbor in June.
    Waitlist spots may become available for the Inner Harbor public swim set for late June — but they are not guaranteed.
    The Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore is promoting a Healthy Harbor in Baltimore took a test swim in the waters in September. The group is promoting making the harbor swimmable by 2024.
    UMMC doctors will decide whether to unionize in a vote next month
    The election will be held at the hospital’s downtown campus and its midtown campus over two days next month. The results will determine whether the union is established.
    The election will be held at the hospital’s downtown campus and its midtown campus over two days, June 12-13.
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