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West Baltimore neighborhoods

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    Crash between a Jeep and a moped kills one teenager in West Baltimore
    A 16-year-old boy is dead and a 17-year-old boy is injured after a crash between the moped they were riding and a Jeep in Upton, Baltimore Police confirmed Thursday morning.
    City leaders have touted plans for years to redevelop an area of Baltimore west of downtown dubbed the Superblock.
    Baltimore’s latest plans for the Superblock go super-bust
    The Baltimore Development Corp. canceled its contract with Westside Partners after the group couldn’t show it had obtained financing for a mixed-use development.
    A Baltimore Police vehicle is seen in Fells Point on April 14, 2024.
    Officials identify man killed, three officers involved in shooting
    The Independent Investigations Division of the Maryland Office of the Attorney General said Friday that Robert Phillip Nedd Jr. of Baltimore died Wednesday in the fatal shooting involving police officers.
    7/8/22—A Baltimore Police officer’s car is parked on the corner of E Lombard St. & President St.
    Three officers on leave after fatal police shooting in West Baltimore
    Baltimore police officers shot and killed a man following a pursuit in the Upton neighborhood Wednesday night, the department said.
    Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said one of the best parts of the event at the Thurgood Marshall Amenity Center was talking with young students from area law schools.
    At new Baltimore community center, Eric Holder says Justice Thurgood Marshall’s work is unfinished
    Eric Holder, the former U.S. Attorney General and renowned civil rights leader, delivered an inaugural speech in a lecture series created to honor the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

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    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.
    People hold a series of signs, including one that reads, 'TUNNEL CONSTRUCTION = NEIGHBORHOOD DESTRUCTION' in front of a brown school building.
    Residents want Baltimore City Council to slow down Amtrak’s tunnel project. But can they?
    The railroad company is asking Baltimore’s City Council to sign off on the rights to build under public land. But residents want them to wait.
    Children’s books are on display at an event kicking off the expansion of ParentChild+ into Baltimore. The organization boosts educational opportunities for low-income children by deploying early education experts to the home twice a week for nearly a year.
    Baltimore toddlers are about to get a lifelong jump on reading
    ParentChild+ will send early learning specialists into 30 toddlers’ homes and day care locations twice a week, bearing educational gifts and guidance for caregivers.
    A close up photo of a bicycle symbol in a red-painted lane of a two lane roadway. Cars are parked along the road in the distance.
    Letters: West Baltimore residents are right. Parts of proposed bike trail are dangerous.
    The proposed bike trail from Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park to Druid Hill Park would be dangerous, a reader says, but an alternate route would make sense.
    Steuart Hill, a now-vacant school, was one of five Baltimore school facilities where fires mysteriously broke out in July.
    How did five Baltimore school facilities mysteriously catch fire in July?
    The five fires, which all broke out in the afternoons or evenings in late July, exclusively erupted at elementary/middle school facilities, according to incident reports.

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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.
    A close up photo of a bicycle symbol in a red-painted lane of a two lane roadway. Cars are parked along the road in the distance.
    The city wants to build a trail to link 2 West Baltimore parks. No one seems happy with the plan.
    A proposal to link The Greenway Trails Network between Druid Hill and Leakin parks has left some trail advocates scratching their heads.
    A commemorative DVD that played during Journey's funeral and reception is displayed on a shelf in Rachell Portilla's home as seen on August 13th, 2024 in Halethorpe, MD.
    Young children are dying in Baltimore’s unprecedented overdose crisis
    The smallest and least suspecting victims of Baltimore’s opioid epidemic are young children. Since 2020, 15 young children have died of overdose.
    The site of the Poppleton development in West Baltimore.
    Poppleton investor sues for control as West Baltimore project flounders
    La Cité Development was supposed to break ground on an age-restricted apartment complex for older adults this year. Instead, the developer missed a key financing deadline.
    Illustration of E.R. Shipp, Creative in Residence for The Baltimore Banner.
    Why hasn’t the city refilled the Lake Ashburton Reservoir?
    Gentrification? A football field? Residents can't see to get a straight answer on when the reservoir will hold water again.

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    Fatal fire in Gwynn Oak caused by improperly discarded smoking materials
    According to the Baltimore County Fire Department, just after 11:36 a.m. Wednesday, responders were called to the 1500 block of Langford Road after neighbors saw flames and smelled smoke coming from the second floor of a home.
    Somil Trivedi, chief legal and advocacy director at Maryland Legal Aid, speaks at a news conference outside the Edmondson Community Center in West Baltimore shortly after a lawsuit challenging city tax sales was filed in court on July 2, 2024.
    In lawsuit, West Baltimore community association alleges city’s tax sale system is unconstitutional
    The Edmondson Community Organization filed the case on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore.
    D.King at the studio.
    Jay-Z and Snoop Dogg know who he is. So why is D.King the best-kept secret in Baltimore hip-hop?
    D.King has impressed superstars like Jay-Z and has recorded with Snoop Dogg and Kanye West, but between bad timing and a busy life full of personal setbacks, he’s spent the last couple decades out of the spotlight, getting ready.
    Todd “Gready” Cornish gets his goat, Hank, ready for a walk, in Baltimore, June 18, 2024.
    Hank the Goat is Southwest Baltimore’s headstrong, fedora-wearing mascot
    Hank the goat, sometimes wearing his trademark fedora, has become a neighborhood sensation.
    The Walbrook Branch of the Enoch Pratt Library reopened on June 24, 2024 after months of renovations.
    After renovations, Pratt branch library reopens and welcomes community
    New furniture and a coat of paint made the inside look refreshed, and this was combined with trenching the floors to add electricity so an individual workspace could be created rather than a long computer bank.