<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1"><url><loc>https://www.thebanner.com/culture/things-to-do/july-4-baltimore-fireworks-drones-A2SG2QCBTFFBXK4APPKY4I5WIA/</loc><lastmod>2025-06-09T22:36:40.262Z</lastmod><image:image><image:loc>https://baltimorebanner-the-baltimore-banner-prod.web.arc-cdn.net/resizer/v2/EP5XOWBVVVAHZIAKZKUYTNGBTE.JPG?auth=442770c30acdb2064dca7538b08095652f1821c9ebdb0a806281a9be0daf96f2&amp;smart=true&amp;width=3000&amp;height=2000</image:loc><image:caption><![CDATA[Drones and fireworks will both light up the sky for this year's July 4 celebration in Baltimore.]]></image:caption></image:image></url><url><loc>https://www.thebanner.com/politics-power/national-politics/rfk-cdc-vaccine-board-Z4NE3NAYVBAW3BEANE6X3KDVDM/</loc><lastmod>2025-06-09T21:47:13.876Z</lastmod><image:image><image:loc>https://baltimorebanner-the-baltimore-banner-prod.web.arc-cdn.net/resizer/v2/6TXLPZE5FVALZKVASPGE3IHYTA.jpg?auth=cffcf7c9eda3973817b47dac02bfbd7e0c9f671896aa09d3ec884e22a02ae8fb&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1024&amp;height=672</image:loc><image:caption><![CDATA[Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was one of the nation’s leading anti-vaccine activists before becoming the nation’s top health official.]]></image:caption></image:image></url><url><loc>https://www.thebanner.com/education/k-12-schools/baltimore-county-schools-lawsuit-tiktok-D4YOI6FW4BHHDIVBFQ6ZIIYI2A/</loc><lastmod>2025-06-09T21:42:21.524Z</lastmod><image:image><image:loc>https://baltimorebanner-the-baltimore-banner-prod.web.arc-cdn.net/resizer/v2/NRD2UJC6R5FJ7HHGU4RHHGYL5I.jpg?auth=dfcf49fb2fcb83882310d2a1998d650f19105067c04a5a61132282216603f220&amp;smart=true&amp;width=2500&amp;height=1668</image:loc><image:caption><![CDATA[Alexa Sciuto, pictured in 2023 outside Stemmers Run Middle School in Essex, where she used to work, filed a defamation lawsuit against four Republican state delegates and others.]]></image:caption></image:image></url><url><loc>https://www.thebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/steven-heggie-deadly-overdose-grandson-WV7BIJGG7BBL5GWBVA4BJZXMD4/</loc><lastmod>2025-06-09T21:29:54.435Z</lastmod><image:image><image:loc>https://baltimorebanner-the-baltimore-banner-prod.web.arc-cdn.net/resizer/v2/AZSTT6LNSVFF7N4UTDF4IRHS3U.jpg?auth=0204ed125cfa844da47d820eaf1b09fe62afa9506362e5dfe567bd4727110c10&amp;smart=true&amp;width=6132&amp;height=4088</image:loc><image:caption><![CDATA[Steven Heggie Sr. pleaded guilty on Monday in Baltimore Circuit Court to involuntary manslaughter in the fatal drug overdose of his 13-month-old grandson, Messiah Heggie, on Oct. 27, 2023.]]></image:caption></image:image></url><url><loc>https://www.thebanner.com/culture/music/sly-stone-obituary-DKAVIV4HL5EGRIMFO5PDUMYU5A/</loc><lastmod>2025-06-09T21:25:09.361Z</lastmod><image:image><image:loc>https://baltimorebanner-the-baltimore-banner-prod.web.arc-cdn.net/resizer/v2/NKDEERKZGNANVFFPAFJD2VMRJM.jpg?auth=08aa66a7a6108b80c403f0b648c2310936891e85e41e6af850577daf486fd4f0&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1873&amp;height=1249</image:loc><image:caption><![CDATA[Sly Stone, leader of the revolutionary Sly and the Family Stone, performs in 1972.]]></image:caption></image:image></url><url><loc>https://www.thebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/grandmother-sentenced-unsecured-gun-child-death-54O7CLYGMZD5RIJ6UYJJN2MXA4/</loc><lastmod>2025-06-09T20:00:00.764Z</lastmod><image:image><image:loc>https://baltimorebanner-the-baltimore-banner-prod.web.arc-cdn.net/resizer/v2/MIP66EF225B2ZPU75W2EMT3THY.jpg?auth=21112d437806df96d74e08ec0893e50b9e1bace85039d7a33ff11bf9e17778c3&amp;smart=true&amp;width=6347&amp;height=4231</image:loc><image:caption><![CDATA[Baltimore Circuit Judge Lynn Stewart Mays on Monday sentenced Alethea Mitchell, 51, of Pimlico Good Neighbors, to serve nine years in prison on charges of reckless endangerment and illegal possession of a regulated firearm.]]></image:caption></image:image></url><url><loc>https://www.thebanner.com/sports/horse-racing/sovereignty-belmont-stakes-preakness-derby-QLDF57YEPRG75NDNKTYVRTGOEM/</loc><lastmod>2025-06-09T18:57:00.879Z</lastmod><image:image><image:loc>https://baltimorebanner-the-baltimore-banner-prod.web.arc-cdn.net/resizer/v2/L7DLCFPIBRCILCMGEXOKK57ZKE.jpg?auth=ffc92012047182cab95a690ee35d843389ef4c20dd2c9b8a1d23cd029271b44a&amp;smart=true&amp;width=4800&amp;height=3200</image:loc><image:caption><![CDATA[Jockey Junior Alvarado points to the sky after riding Sovereignty to victory Saturday in the Belmont Stakes at Saratoga.]]></image:caption></image:image></url><url><loc>https://www.thebanner.com/community/local-news/pride-events-in-maryland-baltimore-ZQPNLR2ADVF2ZMQYYP3NJ4FDUM/</loc><lastmod>2025-06-09T18:47:06.015Z</lastmod><image:image><image:loc>https://baltimorebanner-the-baltimore-banner-prod.web.arc-cdn.net/resizer/v2/7EL46PCDFJCX5BSBARDN76Y4UU.JPG?auth=12f4ca47d55bbabaf40a3e3950ad3af12b87369062981375b49cdc0d9e7cfda8&amp;smart=true&amp;width=2048&amp;height=1365</image:loc><image:caption><![CDATA[More than 150,000 people attended Pride Week events in Baltimore last year. ]]></image:caption></image:image></url><url><loc>https://www.thebanner.com/national/maryland-lawsuit-forced-reset-triggers-VGHPN3UBCNDILJ3YYYQSX4LNGA/</loc><lastmod>2025-06-09T17:24:46.817Z</lastmod><image:image><image:loc>https://baltimorebanner-the-baltimore-banner-prod.web.arc-cdn.net/resizer/v2/FRE2MNTH6RGDPDZFHDHCPSFIFU.JPG?auth=8fcfe4d3270cc3352f9eff4b212d4af65305abfb260dc76743719a67ba5a226c&amp;smart=true&amp;width=3000&amp;height=1999</image:loc><image:caption><![CDATA[Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown said the federal government’s plan to return thousands of forced-reset triggers will have
severe consequences for the state. ]]></image:caption></image:image></url><url><loc>https://www.thebanner.com/education/k-12-schools/westernport-elementary-flood-frostburg-5GVBTCGL4VFL5J2LPIJ4A3ZWCY/</loc><lastmod>2025-06-09T16:25:57.276Z</lastmod><image:image><image:loc>https://baltimorebanner-the-baltimore-banner-prod.web.arc-cdn.net/resizer/v2/FBF5C6NTGVF3TBEHYHMKD2JBBE.JPG?auth=1c3dc00de2edb3049950497013f7ec61b35c85f4fc2b60ae679251c4285aed1a&amp;smart=true&amp;width=3000&amp;height=2000</image:loc><image:caption><![CDATA[Westernport Elementary School Principal Derek Horne leads a group of students to their bus at the end of the school day at Frostburg State University on Thursday.]]></image:caption></image:image></url><url><loc>https://www.thebanner.com/community/climate-environment/roads-reopen-diesel-spill-harbor-east-SCW5JEUWAZGFLEFEIH7PZCSB6Q/</loc><lastmod>2025-06-09T15:10:54.162Z</lastmod><image:image><image:loc>https://baltimorebanner-the-baltimore-banner-prod.web.arc-cdn.net/resizer/v2/H7ZPY2YIXBGX3KCJDSN6X3TSVI.jpg?auth=965c74a1623a69b0fba363db5686e62e92a04dfbdf990be997a0f3d33f30348a&amp;smart=true&amp;width=3000&amp;height=2000</image:loc><image:caption><![CDATA[The fuel spill was traced back to a Johns Hopkins facility at its East Baltimore medical campus.]]></image:caption></image:image></url><url><loc>https://www.thebanner.com/politics-power/local-government/baltimore-county-klausmeier-madigan-inspector-general-5LJKQHVF3JDI3DAT3QKWNQPPYM/</loc><lastmod>2025-06-09T14:19:14.965Z</lastmod><image:image><image:loc>https://baltimorebanner-the-baltimore-banner-prod.web.arc-cdn.net/resizer/v2/VZSNMVK44BGRDOKTEKUFJ56YFA.JPG?auth=b1428eb7cce00a1c6a849a4ffa3b0cc6d41f8d8e2d92b312799dea2da0feebc6&amp;smart=true&amp;width=2442&amp;height=1628</image:loc><image:caption><![CDATA[Four council members have said they will not confirm anyone except Kelly Madigan.]]></image:caption></image:image></url><url><loc>https://www.thebanner.com/community/public-health/nih-criticize-trump-cuts-KOAAPAOHYZEQNJ63INQYBN4UX4/</loc><lastmod>2025-06-09T13:23:52.899Z</lastmod><image:image><image:loc>https://baltimorebanner-the-baltimore-banner-prod.web.arc-cdn.net/resizer/v2/3AIACWEHQBD2JFVC5WTMWO7ETA.jpg?auth=467f9474abc20e69e1c0ffe65b05c1b286c9a241cc27250103383c0010b7fe4f&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1024&amp;height=683</image:loc><image:caption><![CDATA[Jenna Norton, a researcher at the NIH, is a lead organizer of a letter criticizing the Trump administration’s cuts to public health research. ]]></image:caption></image:image></url><url><loc>https://www.thebanner.com/politics-power/national-politics/trump-travel-ban-need-to-know-JRJVVSCM2REPZHQML55FIKH3M4/</loc><lastmod>2025-06-09T12:30:59.253Z</lastmod><image:image><image:loc>https://baltimorebanner-the-baltimore-banner-prod.web.arc-cdn.net/resizer/v2/CIUBSDM7IVC6LPOHDNTB5WPYUY.JPG?auth=48de746eac4da14fc8f8436d6d7ace59e03d6e6b72356423e6976bfc53e9715f&amp;smart=true&amp;width=3000&amp;height=1914</image:loc><image:caption><![CDATA[President Donald Trump's new travel ban took effect Monday and does not have an end date.]]></image:caption></image:image></url><url><loc>https://www.thebanner.com/sports/ravens-nfl/baltimore-ravens-nate-wiggins-chuck-pagano-OARAJSLQJBFVRGRXGCAJI2KUQU/</loc><lastmod>2025-06-09T09:30:00.553Z</lastmod><image:image><image:loc>https://baltimorebanner-the-baltimore-banner-prod.web.arc-cdn.net/resizer/v2/CGBF2EYQ3NETVMH77E7ZQAI4UU.JPG?auth=ee6c5c1559b1db7cffa94367820f536327be1bf6cef1b0c510534c0e85357708&amp;smart=true&amp;width=3000&amp;height=2233</image:loc><image:caption><![CDATA[Ravens cornerback Nate Wiggins finished 11th in voting for defensive rookie of the year last season.]]></image:caption></image:image></url><url><loc>https://www.thebanner.com/opinion/column/elementary-school-graduation-middle-school-kids-WS3EALN5U5HI7CT5OLHVQNROEU/</loc><lastmod>2025-06-09T09:30:00.331Z</lastmod><image:image><image:loc>https://baltimorebanner-the-baltimore-banner-prod.web.arc-cdn.net/resizer/v2/V22U6CTB6NB5VE6XO7F46ZBOKI.jpg?auth=3bb7580ea3a970abac37296d9a95d98dc13c0b524eba2ed8e74674d93ba101d3&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1512&amp;height=1183</image:loc><image:caption><![CDATA[They don’t stay babies but they are still your babies.]]></image:caption></image:image></url><url><loc>https://www.thebanner.com/community/housing/baltimore-vacant-home-fund-3RDGKWYWFJAJVDAFCYEWVJJ6JQ/</loc><lastmod>2025-06-09T05:01:21.16Z</lastmod><image:image><image:loc>https://baltimorebanner-the-baltimore-banner-prod.web.arc-cdn.net/resizer/v2/GOUJYRS5PBFTPC4HBOJ7MCGZHU.JPG?auth=19765d9a5bfc1389a188902b613fdd02e818b244cb77e8c5004a30adc3114667&amp;smart=true&amp;width=4000&amp;height=2667</image:loc><image:caption><![CDATA[Community members from across Baltimore’s congregations and housing coalitions stand in unity at a press conference about the state of vacant housing in the city at Greater Harvest Baptist Church on Sunday.]]></image:caption></image:image></url></urlset>