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Recreational boats allowed to pass through Key Bridge collapse site after opening of fourth temporary channel
BALTIMORE -- A total of four temporary channels are now open following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge just over a month ago. This comes as more than 1,300 tons of steel have been salvaged from the site. Recreational boats are able to pass through the Key Bridge collapse salvage during specific hours. Larry Lewis has spent the last 20 or so years on the water. He says the opportunity to pass through the collapse site is important for recreational boaters, not just chartering businesses. "We have boaters and owners who are stuck on the other side of...
Perkins Homes transforms into Perkins Square with multiple types of housing
The construction fence came down at Caroline and Pratt streets a few days ago and revealed a new, renamed Perkins Homes neighborhood. It’s now being marketed as Perkins Square and there are fresh and shiny apartment rectangles faced with light colored siding and aluminum entry doors. Those old boxy brick 1940s public housing courts have vanished. It’s a squeaky clean new environment, sitting ...
Air quality alert for central Maryland
BALTIMORE — The Maryland Department of the Environment has issued a Code Orange Air Quality Alert for Metro Baltimore and the Annapolis region due to ozone. Those with asthma, heart disease, and other respiratory issues can be triggered. This will go on until the end of the day Monday 4/29/2024.
April 28 Heating Up And Tornado Video From The Central US Storm Outbreak
We start this day with thick fog and it might not seem like a change is on the way. A Dense Fog Advisory is in place until 9 AM, but it will burn off as sun and warmer air will take over. We will jump into the 80s!. The central...
Funeral service set for civil rights activist Helena Hicks, leader of 1955 'Read's Drugstore' sit-in
Funeral services have been set for Helena Hicks, a student organizer at Morgan State University who led sit-ins at segregated lunch counters in 1955.Hicks died of pneumonia and complications of Lewy body dementia at age 88 on April 18, according to our media partner at The Baltimore Banner.Hicks' demonstrations at "Reads drugstores" were the forerunners of later sit-ins at lunch counters across the South during the Civil Rights movement.She grew up in Sandtown-Winchester and was a graduate of Baltimore's Frederick Douglass High School and Morgan State where she received her bachelor's in sociology.A public viewing will held at Joseph H. Brown Funeral Home, located at 2140 N. Fulton Ave., on Monday, May 6, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. The funeral is Tuesday, May 7 at 10:30 a.m., at the same location.
Former High School Athletic Director Arrested For Allegedly Using AI To Generate Racist Remarks Using Principal's Voice
Dahzon Darien allegedly made the recording to retaliate against the principal who had launched an investigation into his potential mishandling of school funds earlier this year. police have arrested a former high school athletic director accused of using AI-generated recordings to simulate racist and antisemitic comments from the school principal.
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