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Facts about Frederick Malkus clear, indisputable
My father always said that there are two reasons for everything. The reason you give and the real reason. Carl Snowden’s timing gives me the real reason for his demanding a name change for the Malkus Bridge. He decided the day the legislative session ended was the perfect time to request action. He knows that the legislature cannot address his complaint until the second Wednesday in January of next year. That gives him over nine months to fundraise before it can be taken up. The...
Tractor-trailer rear-ended in I-95 express lanes in Rosedale
ROSEDALE, Md. -- A tractor-trailer rear-ended another tractor-trailer Monday morning in the express lanes of Interstate 95. Maryland State Police said a tractor-trailer was stopped on the right shoulder around 6:10 a.m. in the northbound direction near the Beltway exits in Rosedale. According to a preliminary investigation, a second tractor-trailer...
Pedestrian killed in Jessup hit-and-run
BALTIMORE -- A man died in a hit-and-run collision overnight in Jessup, Howard County police said. Investigators believe the man was crossing Washington Boulevard at Patuxent Range Road around 3 a.m. when a dark-colored sedan struck him. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Preliminary findings suggest the man was not in the crosswalk at the time of the crash, police said. He was not immediately identified. The sedan did not remain at the scene. No further information about the car was available. An investigation is ongoing, and anyone with information on the collision is asked to contact PFC Germain at 410-313-3205 or sgermain@howardcountymd.gov.
Homicide Defendant Deemed Incompetent in Father’s Murder
Thank you for reading Baltimore Witness. Help us continue our mission into 2024. A 32-year-old homicide defendant was ruled incompetent to stand trial by Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Gale E. Rasin on April 24. According to previous reporting, Ruben Jackson, Jr. was sentenced in 2020 to 25 years for...
Baltimore bridge collapse workers honored
Six construction workers were lost in the tragedy.
Early summerlike heat is here
BALTIMORE — We are dealing with our first hot day of the season as temperatures are expected to soar into the low 90s today. BWI and the city are expected to hit a temperature of at least 90° by this afternoon setting us up to see the first 90° day of the year.
Johns Hopkins University Students March in Solidarity with Nationwide Wave of Pro-Palestine Protests
Chants of “Free, Free, Palestine!” and “Money for jobs and educations, not for war and occupation” echoed across the Johns Hopkins Homewood Campus in Baltimore on Wednesday, Apr. 24, as hundreds of students, faculty, and community members decried the mounting death toll in Gaza. “We’re gathered...
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