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The body of a fifth worker killed when the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed in March has been recovered from the Patapsco River.

The Baltimore City Fire Department on Thursday extinguished a fire at the corner of South Broadway and Eastern Avenue in Fells Point.

Baltimore’s annual Kinetic Sculpture Race returns this weekend. Here are the road closures and traffic modifications you need to know about.

A crane operator found unconscious and unresponsive hundreds of feet in the air at a construction site at the Baltimore Peninsula has died.

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.

A university spokesperson said both affiliated protestors and unaffiliated protestors are in violation of university “policies and/or are trespassing.”

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.

Aberdeen Police say a suspect has been arrested after a triple homicide and suspected arson at the Highland Commons apartment complex earlier this month.

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.

The Flower Mart at Mount Vernon Place kicks off on Friday, and there will be traffic modifications in place starting Thursday.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the country.

Pro-Palestinian protesters on Monday set up an encampment at the Johns Hopkins University, the latest college to face demonstrations related to the Israel-Hamas war.

Christian Siriano, an Annapolis native, will serve as grand marshal and keynote speaker June 1 for the annual Annapolis Pride Parade & Festival, which is a major coup as the event enters its fourth year.

Ellicott City’s Main Street looks a little different, after the monthslong razing of four historic buildings for the Safe and Sound Plan meant to curb dangerous floods.

Baltimore County’s foreign-born population grew by 15,439 people from 2012 to 2022, an increase of 16.3%, census figures show. County officials want to make the immigrant experience less challenging for both parents and children.

Baltimore County Animal Services is waiving adoption fees for all pets and also throwing in some discounted and free pet perks. The perks last through Sunday, May 5, which is fitting since May is National Pet Month.

The sweltering heat in the Baltimore region on Monday broke the previous record of 91 degrees, set in 1974.

In the days and weeks after the Key Bridge collapse, therapists and grief workers who service Baltimore’s Spanish-speaking immigrant community say they have seen a significant increase in referrals and clients — many of whom were already struggling with trauma.

A motorcyclist fell into the Patapsco River after a crash on I-395 southbound Monday afternoon, according to the Baltimore City Fire Department.

A documentary about Jim Henson, who began his career as a freshman at the University of Maryland, College Park, is coming to Disney+ next month.