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    Do chatbots dream of electric crabs? ChatGPT answers our Baltimore questions
    We asked ChatGPT to weigh in on “The Wire,” Natty Boh, and to write like John Waters and Edgar Allan Poe.
    Wendell Pierce and Dominic West in the HBO series The Wire.
    Baltimore or bust? Charm City in top 10 places people want to move to
    In a recent poll, Baltimore was ranked ninth among the most common answers to the question, “If money were no object, which five cities would you prefer to move to?”
    A view of the Baltimore City skyline, as seen from Federal Hill in South Baltimore.
    Former NFL owner Jerry Richardson, who caught TD pass in Baltimore Colts’ 1959 championship win, dies at 86
    Richardson spent only two years in the NFL before launching a successful career in the restaurant business. He later founded the Carolina Panthers, but his reign ended amid a front-office scandal.
    FILE - Carolina Panthers team owner Jerry Richardson drives around the field on his golf cart before his team takes on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during an NFL game in Charlotte, N.C. on Sunday, Jan. 3, 2016. Richardson, the Carolina Panthers founder and for years one of the NFL’s most influential owners until a scandal forced him to sell the team, has died. He was 86. Richardson died peacefully Wednesday night, March 1, 2023, at his Charlotte home, the team said in a statement.
    The neo-Nazi movement behind the plot to blackout Baltimore
    Sarah Beth Clendaniel, 34, and Brandon Clint Russell, 27, subscribe to a neo-Nazi ideology called accelerationism — which aims to cause society’s collapse through violent acts.
    A thwarted plot in Maryland is the latest in a string of recent attacks against critical energy infrastructure nationwide.
    Thousands of Marylanders are losing federal food aid. Here are resources to help.
    Hundreds of thousands of Marylanders are experiencing a significant cut to their federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits this week. Here’s where additional help is available.
    Karen Taylor, a resident of Union Square in South Baltimore, attends a food giveaway outside of Old Major bar in Pigtown on Thursday, January 5. She relied on PriceRite for the majority of her groceries. Since the store's closure, she now travels a mile by foot or bus to Food Depot at the Westside Shopping Center, where she says prices are much higher.
    Years after COVID-19 disruption, Baltimore School for the Arts students perform, draw famous alums
    Years before Rachel Hilson starred in hit television dramas like NBC’s "This is Us," she was a young artist who trained at Baltimore School for the Arts, a nationally recognized public arts high school whose alums include artists like Tupac Shakur, Jada Pinkett Smith and fashion designer Christian Siriano.
    The Baltimore School for the Arts jazz band.
    This was the place: How Baltimore gained — and lost — a beloved mural
    Why was the mural that said “HOME THIS MUST BE THE PLACE” in South Baltimore painted over?
    A mural in Baltimore that used to read "THIS MUST BE THE PLACE" was painted by Stephen Powers, known as ESPO. The new tenants of the building have painted over it.
    Baltimore City releases online dashboard with crime data for accountability, leaders say
    Anyone with access to the internet will now be able to find any crime reported to the Baltimore City Police Department after the release of the city’s Public Safety Accountability Dashboard.
    Mayor Brandon Scott speaks to media after the Board of Estimates meeting at City Hall in Baltimore, February 15, 2023.
    Traffic delays expected as Biden addresses Democratic caucus in Baltimore
    Residents should expect delays and traffic congestion in the downtown area Wednesday and Thursday during President Joe Biden’s visit to Baltimore.
    U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to members of the IBEW Local 26 union at their office in Lanham, Maryland on 2/15/23.
    Breathing new life into Maryland’s former all-Black schools
    Around the state, more than 50 of the buildings that once housed all-Black or so-called “colored schools” remain.
    Harriet Tubman Foundation President, Bessie Bordenave, and a 1962 graduate of the Harriet Tubman School, poses for a portrait inside of the Bernice Beaird Recreated Classroom at the Harriet Tubman Cultural Center, Tuesday, February 21, 2023.
    Maryland Zoo euthanizes 8-year-old cheetah named Bud
    Bud, an 8-year-old cheetah at the Maryland Zoo, was euthanized after a battle with complex gastrointestinal illness, zoo officials said Tuesday.
    Bud the 8-year-old cheetah at the Maryland Zoo. Bud was euthanized in late February 2023 after a battle with a gastrointestinal illness.
    2 dead, 1 injured in early morning Dundalk house fire
    The injured person was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, officials said.
    Baltimore County Firefighters are working a residential fire with rescues and injuries in Dundalk at Oxley Rd. And Kavanagh Rd. Multiple injuries were reported and conditions are also reported as grave to stable.
    Nearly one in three people shot in 2023 were 18 or under as gun violence flares near schools
    A spike in youth gunshot victims is worsening even as nonfatal shootings and homicides are down.
    There has been a rise in gunshot violence with youth in Baltimore.
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    Sellers Mansion torn down after three-alarm blaze
    The Second Empire brick house with a mansard roof was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001 and included on the 2006 inventory of endangered buildings by Preservation Maryland.
    Seller's Mansion, which caught fire early on February 24, 2023, is torn down that same afternoon.
    Two Howard County Council members call for termination of auditor over controversial library report
    Critics question why the audit singled out the race of attendees attending a sorority function at a library branch.
    Credit: Howard County Library System
    Jimmy Carter taught her how to hold a hammer. It changed the Baltimore teacher’s life.
    Meeting the 39th president of the United States and becoming a first-time homeowner marked a turning point in Sonia Street’s life in 1992.
    Sonia Street at her home in Sandtown that Jimmy Carter helped build in 1992. They struck up a lifelong friendship/mentorship relationship that spanned the course of three decades.
    How Baltimore-based groups fight human trafficking in Maryland and across the U.S.
    U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken presented the 2022 Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons last week.
    A woman holds a large, framed certificate with a man. Another woman stands at a lectern.
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