“One Dollar,” a student film shot in a single continuous take in 1987, documents a journey across the Francis Scott Key Bridge that is now lost in time
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and other officials provided an update Wednesday on cleanup efforts at the Key Bridge, which was toppled by a massive container ship on March 26.
Representatives from Hyundai, the ship’s manufacturer, have flown in from Korea to help investigators download data from the ship’s engine room and examine its electrical circuitry.
Maryland’s delegation on Capitol Hill is preparing legislation that would ensure that the federal government pays the full cost of replacing the Francis Scott Key Bridge that collapsed into the Patapsco River two weeks ago.
The devastating collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge prompted racist falsehoods to spread like wildfire online. Maryland Port Commissioner Karenthia Barber found herself in the crosshairs of a far-right disinformation campaign against “DEI” — diversity, equity and inclusion — alongside her co-commissioner Sandy Roberts.
The part of the I-695 Beltway that crossed over the Francis Scott Key Bridge is gone. Not closed, gone. Collapsed into the water. But, at least as of Tuesday morning, only one major GPS application reflects that monumental, devastating change: Google Maps.
The collapse of the Key Bridge has scrambled the morning and evening commutes for Baltimore-area residents, eliminating a major Patapsco River crossing while leaving a gaping hole in Interstate 695, the Baltimore Beltway.
President Joe Biden visited Baltimore Friday afternoon for an aerial tour of the collapsed France Scott Key Bridge and a meeting with families of the six construction workers killed in the disaster.
The Key Bridge collapse further strengthens Baltimore’s kinship with its sister city Odesa, which is suffering through losses of lives and infrastructure destruction from Russian bombing, a member of the Baltimore Odesa Sister City Committee says.
The Baltimore Banner boarded the debris removal vessel, the Reynolds, on Thursday with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Col. Estee S. Pinchasin, to get an updated closer look.