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South Baltimore neighborhoods

    Baltimore firefighters and engineers examine the building’s pool after it leaked and the deck appeared to buckle.
    Brewers Hill apartment building declared safe after partial pool collapse
    A rooftop pool leak lead to the evacuation of the Axel Brewers Hill Apartments, fire officials said Friday.
    Police tape seen at the intersection of Pennsylvania Ave and Lauren Street.
    One person dies in Cherry Hill shooting
    One unidentified male is dead after being shot multiple times in South Baltimore, police said Monday night.
    Baltimore City Hall.
    Letters: Ballot measure to cut City Council size will hurt Black participation
    A reader says the ballot measure to cut the size of the Baltimore City Council will diminish the political participation of Black citizens.
    Six people were hospitalized Wednesday morning after a house fire in Dundalk.
    8-year-old pulled from Dundalk house fire dies; blaze ruled accidental
    Nolan Mars was found by fire crews in a second-floor bedroom and taken to the hospital with critical injuries.
    Nick’s Fish House may look a little different soon.
    Nick’s Fish House sells to its longtime operators
    Online property records show the property changed hands in July for $750,000.

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    Two Giant grocery stores in Baltimore are implementing a youth supervision policy to combat what the company calls a recent rise in theft.
    Letters: Giant Food grocery curfew unfairly blames youths for crime
    Grocery stores targeting youths with curfews sends the harmful and inaccurate message that young people are primarily responsible for crime and shoplifting, says Hannah Stommel, a Zubrow fellow at the Juvenile Law Center.
    Angie Shaneyfelt stands on her porch in Curtis Bay on July 31, 2024.
    What it’s like to live in Curtis Bay, Baltimore’s pollution epicenter
    Curtis Bay residents run higher risks of health problems like heart disease and cancer from long-term exposure to pollution, research shows. It takes a mental toll, too.
    A yellow sign, warning cars about pedestrians, is shown in the middle of a roadway intersection. Cars and trees line the road and a couple of large skyscrapers are in the background.
    The neighborhood just wanted a crosswalk. They found out Baltimore doesn’t make it easy.
    It wasn’t supposed to be this complicated but it was. It would take about a year and a half to get a handful of plastic bollards installed, bolt a pedestrian sign into the road and some paint at an intersection, according to the people involved.
    A sanitation truck offloads waste for Baltimore’s Department of Public Works. A solid waste laborer died while working a sanitation route in Northeast Baltimore’s Barclay neighborhood on Friday, according to an official statement from the city.
    Letters: Mayor must fix ‘deplorable’ conditions at DPW
    A reader says the mayor must fix the “deplorable, inhumane” working conditions at the Department of Public Works sanitation yards after a worker died while on his route.
    The new Jumbo Fresh grocery store located in Mount Clare Junction.
    As Jumbo Fresh opens in Southwest Baltimore, a sense of excitement — and fear of failure
    More than a year and a half of waiting after Price Rite closed, grocery store Jumbo Fresh opened in Mount Clare Junction.

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    Baltimore has started a multiyear planning process to come up with improvements to the Route 2 corridor through South Baltimore.
    A Hanover Street bridge makeover is in the works — but it could take a while
    The federal funds will be used to plan improvements along the Hanover Street Corridor, including sidewalks, new bike lanes and better connections to waterfront parks and trails.
    Zac Blanchard, a candidate for Baltimore City Council's 12th District, poses for a portrait outside the Baltimore City Board of Election's warehouse on Thursday, May 16.
    How public financing and a little bit of Reddit helped oust a City Hall veteran
    Some of Eric Costello’s errors were self-inflicted. One voter said his endorsement of Sheila Dixon for mayor “betrayed the public trust.”
    An industrial trash can filled with melted ice and bottled water was found at a Baltimore Department of Public Works facility in south Baltimore, July 10, 2024.
    In record-breaking heat, OIG finds broken AC, inoperable water fountains at public works facility
    The inspector general made an emergency visit to the Cherry Hill Department of Public Works Facility early Wednesday morning and released the report just hours later.
    Brian Askew overlooks Key Highway and Rash Field Park in Baltimore.
    Policing Baltimore’s Federal Hill when you’re not the police
    Federal Hill turned to private security after high-profile crimes in the neighborhood left people feeling unsafe.
    Baltimore Fire Department firefighters and dive team members pack up after rescuing three people from the water near Port Covington, June 22, 2024. A fourth person drowned.
    1 dead, 3 others rescued from the water near Port Covington
    Baltimore Police and firefighters were called to the 2600 block of Port Covington Drive at around 5:50 p.m. Saturday to a report of multiple people in the water, said Lindsey Eldridge, a spokesperson for the Baltimore Police Department.

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    A large pile of coal can be seen from the surrounding neighborhood outside of the CSX facility in Curtis Bay on Aug. 4, 2023.
    The world wants American coal. Curtis Bay residents say they pay the price.
    Greenhouse gas emissions are coming down in Maryland. But record levels of coal leaving Baltimore are driving emissions overseas.
    Activists recorded dark smoke emitting from the Curtis Bay medical waste incinerator on Jan. 26, 2024.
    Maryland hospital systems differ over medical waste incinerator’s violations
    While the Johns Hopkins Health System has ceased dealings with a South Baltimore medical waste incinerator that has been sued and hit with fines, MedStar Health plans to continue using the facility.
    Baltimore City Hall
    City Council candidates keep narrow leads after additional batch of mail ballots
    About 25,000 outstanding votes were expected to help decide at least three closely contested City Council races that have not yet declared winners.
    The Federal Hill restaurant suffered an alleged "deliberate attack" Monday morning, according to an online post.
    Woman arrested, charged with arson in Papi Cuisine fire incident
    A 47-year-old woman has been arrested and charged with arson and related offenses in connection to a May 6, 2024 fire at Papi Cuisine in South Baltimore.
    A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers boat approaches the Dali cargo ship, which toppled the Francis Scott Key Bridge in March, on April 25, 2024.
    Remains recovered of fifth worker killed in Key Bridge collapse
    The body of a fifth worker killed when the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed in March has been recovered from the Patapsco River.