Maryland lawmakers tour Baltimore's Key Bridge demolition site, say funding secured for rebuild
The state lawmakers toured the remaining section of roadway, the ramps leading to where the bridge once stood before the deadly collapse in March 2024.
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The state lawmakers toured the remaining section of roadway, the ramps leading to where the bridge once stood before the deadly collapse in March 2024.
Despite a drop in deaths last year, recent mass overdoses in Penn North show there is still a serious problem, and the city council tried to get to a deeper understanding at an oversight hearing Tuesday.
The death of a Baltimore sanitation worker in the heat on the job one year ago this week exposed many alarming problems, including a lack of health insurance for more than 130 frontline solid waste workers.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia's legal team is so concerned about his deportation, they have asked for a pause on his potential release, and that could undermine the relevance of a Maryland judge's pending ruling on whether to order his return to Maryland.
Two Baltimore families are grieving after their loved ones died following encounters with police.
Five people were hospitalized after another reported overdose incident in Baltimore's Penn North neighborhood, according to Baltimore police.
Sweltering heat, rodents, and damaged test kits are among the issues that have plagued a health clinic that Baltimore City operates.
A federal judge heard testimony but said he would not issue a ruling on whether there are appropriate conditions to release Abrego Garcia.
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott is promising accountability to a mother searching for answers after her son died in city police custody on June 24.
Maryland has the nation's second-highest concentration of federal workers, and hundreds have either lost their jobs, taken buyouts, or resigned.
A shooting and an armed robbery in Baltimore's Fells Point neighborhood prompted concern among residents.
A federal appeals court has overturned former Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby's mortgage fraud conviction, but they kept in place her perjury convictions.
Demonstrators clashed with federal prosecutors outside of a hearing for Kilmar Abrego Garcia in Maryland.
Judge Paula Xinis proposed a 48-hour hold on deporting Abrego Garcia from the United States again, but the government refused to agree to those terms.
Pastor Kenneth Moales Jr. has his Audi back in Bridgeport, Connecticut, 10 days after he was carjacked at gunpoint in Baltimore.