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    DPW lifts precautionary boil-water advisory in northern Baltimore County
    The agency has confirmed the water is now safe to drink.
    A water main break on York Rd. has left Broadmead Assisted Living Center without water for several days in Towson, Md., February 15, 2023.
    After complaints about teen ‘chaos’, Columbia Mall adds police patrols, could require chaperones
    After visitors and employees reported youths fighting, shooting Orbeez beads and impeding shoppers, The Mall in Columbia is considering requiring chaperones for those 17 and under, and Howard County police have increased patrols.
    The exterior of the AMC movie theater at the Mall in Columbia on 2/13/23.
    Developer has abandoned plans to demolish former Hampden bookbindery and bird roost
    Segall Group is no longer interested in the building “at this time," a representative for the property told Councilwoman Odette Ramos.
    Each September, thousands of chimney swifts spend the night  in Hampden's old bookbindery as they journey from Canada to South America. This year, could be the last as the building has been purchased and possibly slated for demolition.
    Former home of enslaved people found near Harriet Tubman birthplace
    The governor’s office said the home is believed to be that of an enslaved overseer, possibly Jerry Manokey.
    Some of the artifacts recovered near the birthplace of abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Credit: Gov. Wes Moore's office.
    Eddie Conway, former member of the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party and local news host, dies at 76
    The prison reform activist was hospitalized last year with an unspecified illness.
    Marshall "Eddie" Conway, photographed as part of a series entitled "Struggle: Portraits of the Civil Rights and Black Power".
    Many shooting victims bleed out. Baltimore researchers want to improve their chances.
    Physician-scientists at University of Maryland School of Medicine are testing radically different ways to stem the catastrophic blood loss that often kills trauma victims — one using a Tang-like, artificial blood powder and another by inducing hypothermia.
    Allan Doctor, M.D. is a professor of Pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Blood Oxygen Transport and Hemostasis.
    David Linthicum’s brother speaks out: ‘This was entirely preventable’
    Martin Linthicum says his younger brother, accused in the shootings of two Baltimore County Police officers in separate incidents, spiraled downward in an abusive household.
    The view outside David Linthicum's home on Friday, Feb. 10. Tire tracks and busted windows are some of the signs from a police raid the night before.
    Baltimore residents who lose homes after tax sales often don’t see excess funds they’re owed from auction
    $6 million is sitting unclaimed in city coffers, a Baltimore Banner review shows.
    Photo collage of Baltimore row house in front of stack of hundred dollar bills and blurry image of Baltimore City hall in far background.
    Girl, 14, accidentally shot in leg while playing with gun with 2 juveniles
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    Following manhunt, David Linthicum apprehended, charged in shootings of 2 officers
    The 24-year-old Cockeysville man faces a total of 11 counts in connection with the recent shootings of a police officer and a detective in separate incidents.
    A SWAT team investigates a house on Warren Rd near Loch Raven Reservoir during a manhunt for 24-year-old Cockeysville resident David Emory Linthicum.
    1 dead, 5 injured after vehicles crash into E. Baltimore building
    The collision happened near the intersection of E. North Avenue and N. Wolfe Street.
    Firefighters respond to a partial building collapse at the intersection of E. North Avenue and N. Wolfe Street after a car hit a building.
    Clucked up: The humble and heartbreaking world of raising backyard chickens
    Thinking about raising chickens to save money on eggs? These Baltimore-area backyard chicken owners say prepare yourself for feathers, heartbreak and some very expensive eggs.
    Christa Daring, along with their partner Dan Staples and child Juniper, raise chickens in their backyard in Lauraville on February 3, 2023. They have ten chickens total.
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    US releases Guantanamo prisoner Majid Khan, who grew up in Baltimore
    The transfer of Khan ended an imprisonment that included torture at clandestine CIA sites and 16 years at the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
    FILE - In this photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, flags fly at half-staff at Camp Justice, Aug. 29, 2021, in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. Majid Khan, the onetime courier for al-Qaida is a free man after serving more than 16 years at Guantanamo, and surviving torture at notorious CIA "black sites." The Pentagon announced the release of Pakistan citizen Khan on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. Khan is now in Belize, after that nation reached agreement with the Biden administration to take him.
    Lexington Market celebrates grand opening, more Black-owned businesses
    Community members, business owners and government leaders celebrated the grand opening of Lexington Market in downtown Baltimore on Tuesday.
    Lexington Market vendor Robin Holmes owns Debbie's Donuts, a Black and woman owned-small business.
    Ditching plastic bags debated in Baltimore County
    The legislation would ban retailers from offering plastic bags beginning Nov. 1, 2023.
    Baltimore County Council members met to discuss a proposed plastic bag ban on January 31, 2023.
    Where to see the green comet near Baltimore
    A comet with a funky green glow is visible from Earth right now, possibly for the first time in history. To spot it, start by looking for the Little Dipper.
    Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was discovered by astronomers using the wide-field survey camera at the Zwicky Transient Facility this year in early March. This fine telescopic image from December 19, 2022, shows the comet's brighter greenish coma, short broad dust tail, and long faint ion tail
    Community outreach program hopes to get more Black men to go to the doctor
    Homegrown community outreach platform Live Chair Health uses an innovative approach to help hard-to-reach communities access healthcare.
    A portrait of Alton Gravez after reciving a free haircut from a barber with Live Chair Health at Penn North in Baltimore, Md. on January 13, 2023.
    Gov. Moore and HHS Secretary Becerra talk youth mental health, including new 988 crisis line
    Governor Wes Moore and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra highlight federal and state investments in youth mental health at roundtable event in Baltimore.
    Gov. Wes Moore, U.S Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and mental health advocacy organizations met at a roundtable in Baltimore on Friday, Jan. 27 on youth mental health.
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