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    Why is this Baltimore library opening a free grocery store?
    The Pratt Free Market grocery store in the Highlandtown library is a pilot project for addressing citywide barriers to food access by offering goods at no cost.
    The Pratt Free Market opening Saturday in the Southeast Anchor of the Enoch Pratt Library will offer produce, dry goods and toiletries at no cost to anyone.
    A Facebook post seen by Baltimore County’s inspector general may have solved a mystery
    A report released Wednesday found that a county highway employee, with help from coworkers including his boss, likely took the asphalt from work to improve his own driveway.
    Baltimore County Inspector General Kelly Madigan spotted a post on Facebook that may have solved an investigation.
    Charges dropped against 3 Baltimore County Police officers accused of failing to intervene
    In a statement, Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates said his office was “truly saddened that we could not secure justice in this case.”
    A Baltimore County sign hangs in a hallway of the Old Courthouse on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024 in Towson, MD.
    Resentencing for Lee Malvo postponed in Maryland after Virginia says he can’t attend in person
    Malvo, who was 17 years old at the time of the shootings, was convicted of multiple counts of murder in Virginia and Maryland and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. He has been serving his sentence in Virginia.
    Sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo Montgomery County homicide
    Gavin Knupp’s mother reaches agreement with prosecutors on foundation embezzlement charges
    Tiffany Knupp will serve a year of unsupervised probation, pay $6,500 restitution and resign from the foundation.
    Gavin Knupp's mother, Tiffany Knupp, fixes and adds things to his memorial on the side of the service road where the hit-and-run took place last summer.
    Park purchase near Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr.’s home raises questions
    Baltimore County is buying land for a waterfront park less than a mile from County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr.’s Millers Island home. Some have questioned whether the county followed the protocol that it used for other proposed park acquisitions.
    Baltimore County purchased the wooded area on Cuckold Point Road for a park. The property is less than a mile from County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr.’s house on Millers Island.
    For sailors, Key Bridge was a gritty gateway — and remains powerful even in wreckage
    Sailors have long thought of the Key Bridge as a beacon, a waypoint signaling the entry to or exit from Baltimore. It remains so, even as wreckage.
    Sailor Bobby LaPin on his boat near the Key Bridge.
    How Black fraternities, sororities and professional groups build support for Black candidates
    Black fraternities and sororities, professional social groups and other organizations have helped establish an infrastructure of support for Black candidates.
    Kara D Beverly, a 42-year-old attorney from Towson, is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Inc.
    5-alarm fire in downtown Baltimore prompts road closures, temporary light rail suspension
    A fire broke out in downtown Baltimore on Sunday, impacting traffic as the Orioles prepare for their final regular-season home game.
    The Baltimore City Fire Department said the scene is contained.
    The Key Bridge collapse: Six months later, six families are still grieving
    The Key Bridge collapse killed most of a Baltimore construction crew. Their relatives share stories about the men and the pain of losing them.
    Mariela's husband was the foreman of the construction crew filling potholes on the Key Bridge on March 26.
    FBI agents board boat managed by company overseeing the cargo ship that collapsed Key Bridge
    In statements Saturday, spokespeople for the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maryland confirmed authorities have boarded the Maersk Saltoro.
    A boat passes by the Dali at the Port of Baltimore.
    NASA killed off a Maryland-made satellite project. Lawmakers want to know why.
    The project, known as OSAM-1, was developed at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and was expected to service existing satellites and expand their lifespans in space.
    The On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1) spacecraft NASA is cancelling.
    Want one last swim this summer? Beaches reopen after medical waste washed ashore
    Ocean City Emergency Services Director Joe Theobald said in a statement Friday evening that the water is safe for swimming and surfing.
    Access to the ocean is currently unavailable at the Assateague Island National Seashore.
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    Brewers Hill apartment building declared safe after partial pool collapse
    A rooftop pool leak lead to the evacuation of the Axel Brewers Hill Apartments, fire officials said Friday.
    Baltimore firefighters and engineers examine the building’s pool after it leaked and the deck appeared to buckle.
    Joppatowne High School cancels classes in honor of student killed in shooting
    The funeral was just days after the suspect in the shooting, a 16-year-old classmate, was indicted by a grand jury.
    Law enforcement and emergency personnel gather near Joppatowne High School in Harford County, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024. An on-campus fight led to one person being injured, officials said.
    Johns Hopkins sees ‘significant setback’ as diversity of incoming class drops sharply
    Johns Hopkins University shared socioeconomic statistics and self-reported racial and ethnic identities of this year’s incoming first-year undergraduates.
    University officials said they will continue to look for ways to build a diverse university community.
    As deadline nears, a Baltimore County company seeks damages from Key Bridge collapse
    The ship’s operators were “potentially grossly negligent and reckless,” the attorney representing Brawner Builders, Andrew Connolly, wrote in the claim filed in the U.S. District Court of Maryland.
    Legal claims are beginning to flow in as the deadline looms to respond to the Dali operators’ request to limit their liability in the March destruction of the Key Bridge.
    Broke BOPA wants a $1.8M bailout. The mayor wants a forensic audit first.
    At the same time the city’s top arts organization was struggling to make payroll, its CEO went ahead with plans for Artscape, BOPA’s premier event, without consulting anyone.
    Festival goers at ArtScape headed for cover Friday night after a thunderstorm blew through Baltimore. The weather forced the cancellation of musical acts, including Grammy winner Chaka Khan.
    Georgia man arrested at BWI on felony child molestation charges
    Daniel Coronado, 54, of Alpharetta, Georgia, was arrested at BWI after arriving on a flight from Cancun, Mexico, CBP officials said.
    A Customs and Border Patrol agent in an airport.
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