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Baltimore's New Progressive Mayor Is Ready To Tackle The City's Biggest Problems

6:17am December 08, 2020

by Emily Sullivan

Brandon Scott is the city's youngest mayor in more than a century. The 36-year-old campaigned on an unprecedented platform of curbing mayoral power.

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Maryland Man Sentenced To 25 Years In Prison After Shooting Black Man In Hate Crime

4:16pm September 24, 2020

by Marisa Peñaloza

Brandon Higgs, the white man sentenced, reportedly told the Black man he shot to "go back to Africa." The prosecutor said police found that Higgs has links to white supremacist groups.

Remains of the Christopher Columbus statue near Little Italy in Baltimore after it was ripped from its pedestal by protesters on July 4, 2020.

National

Baltimore Protesters Topple Columbus Statue

1:26pm July 05, 2020

by Rachel Treisman

Demonstrators in Baltimore pulled down the statue and threw it into the harbor, adding it to the growing list of Columbus monuments toppled nationwide in response to his controversial legacy.

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NAACP Plans To Move Its Headquarters From Baltimore To Washington, D.C.

11:57am June 30, 2020

by Brakkton Booker

The NAACP's president called the move an "exceptional opportunity." He said it will allow the organization to "amplify the voices of the Black people as we fight for the crucial policy changes."

Kwame Rose, holding a megaphone, helps lead a group of several hundred people in Baltimore during a march protesting police on May 2, 2015.

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How Have Baltimore Protests Stayed Peaceful? Activists Take Lessons From 2015

10:07am June 04, 2020

by Rebecca Hersher

Unlike the demonstrations that rocked the city five years ago after Freddie Gray, 25, died in police custody, this week's unfolded peacefully. Local activists are helping to avoid unplanned violence.

Former Rep. Kweisi Mfume won a special election in Maryland and will return to the congressional seat he last held in 1996. He is pictured here after speaking during a service at a church in Windsor Mill in December.

Politics & Government

Kweisi Mfume Wins Special Election To Fill Elijah Cummings' Seat In Congress

7:12pm April 29, 2020

by Brakkton Booker

Voters return Kweisi Mfume to the seat he held for five terms; he was replaced by the late Elijah Cummings in 1996.

Former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh and her attorney arrive for a sentencing hearing in Baltimore on Thursday. Pugh pleaded guilty to federal fraud, tax and conspiracy charges last year.

National

Ex-Baltimore Mayor Gets 3 Years In Prison For 'Healthy Holly' Children's Book Scheme

3:27pm February 27, 2020

by Brakkton Booker

Former Mayor Catherine Pugh was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty to federal fraud, tax and conspiracy charges last year involving sales of her self-published children's books.

Dr. Laurie Punch, a trauma surgeon at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, is adamant that violence is a true medical problem doctors must treat in both the operating room and the community.

Trauma Surgeon Battles Bullets In The Operating Room And The Community

5:00am December 05, 2019

by Laura Ungar

Weary of losing neighbors and patients to gunfire, St. Louis trauma surgeon Laurie Punch has a message: Gun violence is contagious, but so is healing. Doctors who teach can be part of the solution.

Andrew Stewart (center) walks with his mother and sister on Monday after he and two other black men were exonerated in a 1983 murder for which they were sentenced to life in prison.

National

After 36 Years In Prison For 'Georgetown Jacket' Murder, 3 Men Are Exonerated At Last

2:44pm November 26, 2019

by Laurel Wamsley

"I've been always dreaming of this. For this day," said Alfred Chestnut, now 52. The Maryland men were freed after investigators found police and prosecutorial misconduct in the 1983 case.

Former Baltimore mayor Catherine Pugh (right) leaves federal court in Baltimore on Thursday after pleading guilty to charges stemming from a fraudulent children's book sales to enrich herself and help her political career.

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Former Baltimore Mayor Pleads Guilty In Children's Book Scandal

6:21pm November 21, 2019

Catherine Pugh acknowledged her guilt in a scheme in which she took orders for her self-published Health Holly book series and used the money for herself and to advance her political career.