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Small business owners are planning a one-day festival called Hampden Highlights for June 1 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Young people across Baltimore will find updated play spaces at some of their neighborhood recreation centers, parks and area schools, like the latest updo at the new Candy Stripe Park

A hydraulic salvage grab that resembles the talons of a giant bird of prey is in the process of being attached to the Chesapeake 1000 crane, another monster piece of equipment that has been an indispensable tool in the removal of thousands of tons of debris left in the Patapsco River after the Key Bridge collapsed.

“RuPaul’s Drag Race“ Season 16 finalist Sapphira Cristál will headline a show June 15 at Baltimore Soundstage, while winner Nymphia Wind will headline a show June 27 at Guilford Brewery.

Baltimore Police have arrested 59-year-old Patrick Cromwell after authorities say he told police he cut and strangled his roommate, Joseph Barranco.

Exactly four weeks after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed, salvage crews removed its biggest piece of debris to date, a section of truss weighing 560 tons, clearing the way to open the deepest and widest temporary channel by the end of this week.

Contractors for Baltimore’s Department of Public Works are investigating a 20-inch water main break in Locust Point.

Evan Woodard, the young leader of an organization called Salvage Arc, secured a lease for a space in Fells Point where, if all goes to plan, he will open the the Salvage Arc Foundation Museum and Community Center.

Stella the hawk, partially blind and with a chest full of shrapnel, is loose after a tree struck her enclosure at Oregon Ridge Nature Center in Cockeysville.

The lawsuit was filed Monday in Baltimore City Circuit Court against Jason Billingsley, Eden’s Homes and Property Pals. It alleges negligence, premise liability and a breach of lease.

In 2021, Frederick Williams wrote the city of Baltimore a check for more than $13,000 to pay off outstanding property taxes as part of his purchase of a home. What he got was an almost three-year legal odyssey that nearly cost him the house.

Already stressed local truck drivers are feeling overworked and fearful after the collapse of the Key Bridge — which some said they nearly got caught up in.

Taylor Swift invited Baltimore’s own Josh Charles, who played Knox Overstreet in the 1989 hit “Dead Poets Society” to be a part of the video.

Rabbi Levi Raskin led them through all the steps during their “Model Matzah Factory” field trip. The major Jewish holiday commemorates the exodus of ancient Israelites from slavery in Egypt, as recounted in the Torah. Observant Jews avoid leavened grains for Passover, which starts Monday evening.

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Mr. Trash Wheel, the googly-eyed, solar-powered trash interceptor who sits where the Jones Falls meets the Inner Harbor, has been gobbling garbage for 10 years.

A temporary channel northeast of the main shipping lanes on the Patapsco River has been established and will provide limited access to the Port of Baltimore for commercially essential vessels, the Unified Command, which is overseeing the salvage work on the river, said Friday night.

From tree plantings to free transit, here are ways you can celebrate the earth this week.

Five young men were shot Friday afternoon when gunfire broke out in a park in Greenbelt, a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C., according to police.

A far-right extremist group leader was sentenced on Friday to more than five years in prison for repeatedly assaulting police officers with makeshift weapons during a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol over three years ago.