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    Stevie Wonder, Misty Copeland to speak at Peabody graduations
    Stevie Wonder and Misty Copeland will deliver addresses as part of the Peabody Conservatory’s graduation ceremonies May 22.
    Stevie Wonder and Misty Copeland will deliver addresses as part of the Peabody Conservatory’s graduation ceremonies May 22.
    4 rules of the Merriweather pool: no diving, no glass, no running. And no fans.
    Merriweather Post Pavilion have attracted big names in music to the newly renovated facilities thanks in part to a backstage pool.
    The venue industry’s most exclusive pool sits behind the main stage at Merriweather Post Pavillon.
    Souls to the Polls: Black churches say election stakes have never been higher
    Maryland clergy leaders, who reach thousands on a weekly basis, are using the pulpit to emphasize the need to vote.
    Black churches like Empowerment Temple AME Church continue to hold sway in Maryland politics.
    Hopkins encampment protestors formally call on university to divest, demilitarize
    The proposal requests that Hopkins divest “from all companies with ties to the state of Israel,” demilitarize “by severing its financial relationships with the U.S. Department of Defense,” and disclose “all financial relationships with the state of Israel.”
    The proposal from the Hopkins Justice Collective Palestine Solidarity Encampment calls on Hopkins to divest from specific companies, including Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics.
    Amid rain fit only for ducks, absurdities roll in the Kinetic Sculpture Race
    The race, put on by the American Visionary Arts Museum, isn’t supposed to be taken seriously, the fastest don’t get first prize and bribes are the norm. Heavy rain only added to the absurdity of the day featuring a giant pink poodle named FiFi, oversized pink flamingos and, of course, the Soda Quakers.
    Fifi the poodle proceeds down Key Highway with the Baltimore skyline in the background as rain falls during the Kinetic Sculpture Race on May 4, 2024.
    Former Stevenson, pro lacrosse player Callum Robinson found dead in Mexico
    Robinson, a native of Australia, his brother Jake and their friend Jack Carter Rhoad went missing last weekend on a camping and surfing trip on Mexico’s Baja California coast.
    Callum Robinson, an alum of Stevenson University in Baltimore County, was one of three people found killed near the township of Santo Tomás in Mexico on Friday.
    In a science center not far, far away, kids spend Star Wars Day taking Jedi training
    The sounds of discovery were supplemented by the tinkering of droid building and whooshing of the Millennium Falcon as parents and their Padawans gathered for a Jedi Academy event, part of the Maryland Science Center’s May the Fourth activities.
    A hologram optical illusion shows a floating Stormtrooper helmet as a child visitor discovers the illusion at the Jedi Mind Tricks exhibit during the Jedi Academy event at the Maryland Science Center held on May 4, 2024, in Baltimore/
    Annapolis City Council proposes ban on new drive-through facilities
    Annapolis is considering prohibiting new drive-through window facilities within the city limits.
    A two-lane ordering system at Canton’s new drive-thru Shake Shack.
    The Baltimore Banner wins News Organization of the Year, other top honors
    The Banner was named the MDDC’s News Organization of the Year for 2023 and swept the press association’s top awards.
    6/8/22—Exterior of The Baltimore Banner office sign with the hanging banners.
    Harford County to pay $1 million settlement in deadly shooting; sheriff calls payment premature
    Harford County leaders are paying a $1 million settlement to avoid a lawsuit in a 2022 deadly shooting involving a deputy.
    The front of the Harford County Sheriff’s Office Headquarters.
    You could pay higher utility bills under deal to save coal
    Under a deal up for approval next month, two power plants in Anne Arundel County would continue to burn coal at least three years longer than planned — potentially costing Marylanders $250 million or more every year.
    A few miles from the CSX facility in Curtis Bay, two coal-burning power plants may run for years longer than planned.
    Remains recovered of fifth worker killed in Key Bridge collapse
    The body of a fifth worker killed when the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed in March has been recovered from the Patapsco River.
    A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers boat approaches the Dali cargo ship, which toppled the Francis Scott Key Bridge in March, on April 25, 2024.
    Fire in Fells Point burns through tower of building housing liquor store
    The Baltimore City Fire Department on Thursday extinguished a fire at the corner of South Broadway and Eastern Avenue in Fells Point.
    The fire in Fells Point appeared to be extinguished or under control by around 1:25 p.m. Thursday, May 2, 2024.
    Watch out for Kinetic Sculpture Race road closures this weekend
    Baltimore’s annual Kinetic Sculpture Race returns this weekend. Here are the road closures and traffic modifications you need to know about.
    Baltimore’s annual human-powered sculpture race returns this weekend.
    Baltimore Peninsula crane operator dies after medical emergency over 100 feet in air
    A crane operator found unconscious and unresponsive hundreds of feet in the air at a construction site at the Baltimore Peninsula has died.
    A Baltimore City Fire Department’s Special Rescue Operations team rescued a crane operator on the Baltimore Peninsula on May 1, 2024, after he went into cardiac arrest while roughly 180 feet above the ground. Officials said the man died later that day.
    Families of firefighters killed in Stricker Street blaze sue city, allege negligence
    The families of three firefighters who died in a blaze at a vacant home on Stricker Street in two years ago are suing the city, saying officials were negligent in cataloging dangerous buildings.
    The site of a vacant home that burned and collapsed in the 200 block of S. Stricker St., killing three Baltimore firefighters.
    Johns Hopkins: Students, others protesting overnight are ‘trespassing’
    A university spokesperson said both affiliated protestors and unaffiliated protestors are in violation of university “policies and/or are trespassing.”
    As of midnight Wednesday, the encampment at the Johns Hopkins University, which began Monday afternoon, remained standing as rain began to fall.
    Ship that brought down a Baltimore bridge to be removed from collapse site in the coming weeks
    At the site of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, crews plan to refloat and remove the grounded Dali container ship within roughly the next 10 days, allowing more maritime traffic to resume through Baltimore’s port.
    The Dali cargo ship and the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge are seen from a Department of Natural Resources boat on the Patapsco River in Baltimore on April 10, 2024.
    Man arrested, accused of Aberdeen triple homicide, suspected arson
    Aberdeen Police say a suspect has been arrested after a triple homicide and suspected arson at the Highland Commons apartment complex earlier this month.
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    Mayor debate: Scott asks to ‘finish the job’ while opponents trash state of city
    Scott’s challengers sought to drown out his optimistic message and lambasted his record, casting him as an ineffective leader whose portrait of improvement masks a more complicated and stagnant on-the-ground reality.
    Mayor Brandon Scott, former Mayor Sheila Dixon, attorney Thiru Vignarajah, and businessman Bob Wallace attended a mayoral debate at the University of Baltimore.
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