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The mother of a Baltimore man called police early Thursday to report that men had broken into her home and demanded money for her son, whom they claimed to be holding. They fled without the money, and hours later the man was found dead in a wooded area of Annapolis.

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From a proposal to the American dream, Baltimoreans remember the bridge as more than a roadway.

“We know what these folks really want to say when they say DEI mayor,” Scott told The Banner. “They really want to say the N-word.”

Sha-Kim Akil Webley, 29, of Windsor Mill, was shot Jan. 9 at a BP gas station near Slade Avenue and Reisterstown Road in Pikesville.

More than a thousand people — including union laborer Terry Turbin — gathered Friday to raise money for port workers who will lose work because of the Key Bridge collapse.

A baker in Dundalk was one of the last people to cross the Key Bridge, making it off about a minute before it collapsed.

Since the Francis Scott Bridge’s collapse early Tuesday, community members have been reaching out and providing support to families of the six Latino construction workers who perished in the disaster.

The six missing workers were all part of Baltimore’s flourishing Latino community, immigrant advocates say.

Rescue and recovery efforts have turned to a salvage operation that Maryland Department of Transportation estimated Thursday would cost at least $60 million.

Officials have said concrete and steel debris have to be removed so that divers can safely work in the area again.

Recovery efforts at the bridge collapse site are underway, while federal transportation safety investigators were boarding the ship and collecting evidence.

The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge could be catastrophic for the thousands of workers in the International Longshoremen’s Association Local 333, said president Scott Cowan.

The bridge’s condition has been scrutinized in the aftermath of the Tuesday morning collapse.

Eight members of a construction crew repairing potholes on the bridge deck were believed to have fallen into the water, two of whom were rescued.

Search and rescue efforts have been underway since before daybreak.

In a potentially crippling blow to commerce in the region, the Port of Baltimore is partially shut down after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed Tuesday morning when it was struck by a cargo ship.

The International Transport Workers’ Federation on Tuesday was trying to establish communication with union members crewing the Dali, many of whom are from India.

Maryland Film Festival will lean into diverse communities with offerings that include a film selected by John Waters, a Luther Vandross documentary, a showing of a silent movie from the late-Black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, and an offering of trans short films curated by one of the creators of “The Matrix Trilogy.”