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    Mayor Brandon Scott announces he’s expecting his first child with girlfriend Hana Pugh
    Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott shared some good news on Friday morning — he and his girlfriend, Hana Pugh, are expecting a baby in early 2024.
    Instagram screenshot of an announcement from Mayor Brandon Scott.
    Brooklyn needed help before the mass shooting. Here’s what residents say.
    Why some residents feel out of sight and out of mind in this South Baltimore neighborhood.
    “The people of the Brooklyn neighborhood have felt cut off geographically, culturally and psychologically for 100 years,” Del. Robbyn Lewis said.
    Contractor run over, killed by construction zone roller in Hampden
    The mayor’s office said the contractor was working on a water main replacement project when he was killed.
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    Maryland before time: Rare dinosaur bone bed uncovered in Prince George’s County
    Officials announced this week that the recovery of the fossil and others nearby elevate the park’s classification to a bone bed, the first discovered in Maryland since 1887.
    TV cameras point at paleontologist J.P. Hodnett as he describes the bones found at the Prince George‘s County Dinosaur Park on July 12, 2023.
    James Webb Space Telescope celebrates first birthday with new image of stars forming
    The James Webb Space Telescope has been operational for a year, transforming the way scientists understand the universe. It is operated out of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.
    The first anniversary image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope displays star birth like it’s never been seen before, full of detailed, impressionistic texture. The subject is the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth.
    Metro Stations to reopen Wednesday after electrical fire forces closures
    Metro subway service from Owings Mills to Johns Hopkins will resume at 4 a.m. Wednesday, five days after an electrical fire shut down the line.
    Interior of Charles Center Station as a subway train arrives and a rider waits to board on 8/11/22.
    No, you won’t be able to see the northern lights in Maryland
    The northern lights will not be visible in Maryland this week. Sorry if we got your hopes up.
    An aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, is seen in the night sky in the early morning hours of Monday, April 24, 2023, in Washington state.
    For the first time in Baltimore County, a student will vote on the school budget
    Kayla Drummond, a rising senior at Parkville High School, will be the first student board member with budgetary voting rights thanks to legislation signed by the governor earlier this year.
    Kayla Drummond, a rising senior at Parkville High School, will be Baltimore County’s first student school board member with the right to vote on the school system’s $2.6 billion budget.
    Oldfields School advocates announce plans to reopen 156-year-old institution in September
    Advocates announced that a new board of trustees chaired by Taylor Smith, the former head of school, will take over.
    Oldfields School, established in 1867, will be closing at the end of teh school year.
    19 gunshot victims went to a small South Baltimore hospital. They all lived.
    The staff at MedStar Harbor Hospital is used to tending gunshot wounds once every other week. But last weekend they treated two-thirds of the Brooklyn mass shooting victims.
    Malkia Murray, a nurse, describes the experience of treating 19 mass shooting victims, mostly teens, at MedStar Harbor Hospital.
    Solar storm on Thursday expected to make northern lights visible in Maryland
    The Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has forecast auroral activity in 17 states.
    People in more than a dozen states could get to see the Northern Lights next week.
    Meet the middle school girls who will bus fresh produce to Baltimore food deserts
    A group of eighth grade girls from Baltimore have a new idea to bring fresh food to your door: a bus that parks in your neighborhood, chock full of locally farmed dinosaur kale, berries, cabbages and squash.
    From left, Aniya Ponton, Ryeona Watson and Samahj Chestnut won $13,000 to create a bus that brings fresh, locally sourced produce to food deserts in Baltimore. They are eighth graders at New Song Academy.
    Test your memory with our weekly news quiz
    Test your knowledge of this week’s local news events by taking our quiz.
    The Banner’s news quiz.
    Days after deadly shooting, residents of Brooklyn Homes help one another heal
    Baltimore City officials and Safe Streets passed out food, offered help, and staged a march in the aftermath of the mass shooting in Brooklyn.
    Kiran, 8, and Taylor, 6, hold up signs that say “Don't Shoot. We Want to Grow Up” during a Safe Streets Peace Walk on July 7, 2023, in Brooklyn.
    Maryland Public Service Commission to hold hearing on BGE external regulators
    The commission, which regulates utilities and oversees BGE, said the hearing is meant to allow people involved in the dispute to make comments and provide information on the regulators.
    A BGE gas regulator as seen on the 1500 block of Lancaster Street on June 9, 2023.
    Maryland appeals court upholds ruling against man who sued BGE over 2020 gas explosion
    The explosion in Northwest Baltimore killed two people and injured at least seven others on Aug. 10, 2020.
    Terry James, a victim in the August 2020 gas exclusion, shares his story of perseverance and recovery.
    Police arrest teen who allegedly flashed gun before Brooklyn mass shooting
    The teen’s attorney says police are alleging his client pulled a gun out of a bag several hours before the shooting.
    Police tape marks off Glade Court in Brooklyn after the shooting that resulted in two deaths and dozens of injuries.
    How the Chesapeake Bay got a boost from less rainfall
    Scientists say seagrass acreage is expanding and the bay's toxic "dead zone" could shrink by as much as a third this year.
    Wild celery and other bay grasses grow in the Susquehanna Flats south of Havre de Grace, Md., on Aug. 2, 2019.
    Fire causes systemwide subway shutdown
    The subway was closed shortly after 5 a.m. from Owings Mills Station to Johns Hopkins Station, the MTA said. Baltimore County Fire officials confirmed the systemwide shutdown and fire around 7:30.
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    Can you open this mysterious safe? Red Emma’s bookstore seeks safecrackers
    What lies inside the deep, dark safe on the second floor of Red Emma’s in Waverly? The bookstore’s worker-owners are inviting the public to try cracking the code.
    The locked safe sits among books on the second floor of Red Emma's on July 6, 2023.
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