Department leadership, which was just upended following a scathing report on a fatal fire on South Stricker Street in January, contend they are doing everything they can to address the issues.
The survivors and advocates include two women who say they were violently raped by a priest while students at Archbishop Keough High School. The women decried the fact that church leaders have been able to read the report while they — victims whose testimony helped investigators — have been barred from seeing it.
Baltimore is still interested in adding another starting pitcher, especially one who can be in the top half of the rotation. A left-handed bat and a backup catcher are focuses, too. Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said he’d like to see additional veterans added, supplementing a roster that’s made up mainly of young talent brought through the pipeline of a rebuild.
MOMCares, a Baltimore organization that specializes in maternal health, is seeing spiking demand for doula trainings, which founder Ana Rodney attributes to the changes in access to reproductive health services across the country.
It’s been a little over five years since “The Keepers” miniseries debuted on Netflix, shocking viewers with allegations of extreme sexual abuse in the late ’60s and early ’70s at Archbishop Keough, a Catholic all-girls school in Baltimore County. The women who shared their stories in “The Keepers” talk about their hopes for the upcoming Maryland Attorney General’s report into sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
City Council President Nick Mosby decried Mayor Brandon Scott’s veto of his bill to loosen restrictions for council members’ pensions, saying the decision will discourage people of all backgrounds from running for office.