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Judge Vacates Adnan Syed’s Murder Conviction, Subject of ‘Serial’ Podcast
In a remarkable reversal, Adnan Syed walked out of prison on Monday for the first time since he was a teenager, having spent 23 years fighting his conviction on charges that he murdered his former high school girlfriend, a case that was chronicled in the first season of the hit podcast “Serial.” Judge Melissa M. […]
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Man Who Swung Bat at Squeegee Workers in Baltimore Is Fatally Shot
A man who got out of his car and swung a bat at squeegee workers during a confrontation in downtown Baltimore was killed Thursday when one of the workers pulled out a gun and shot him, the authorities said. The man, who had a heated confrontation with the workers as he drove through the intersection […]
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Baltimore Banner, a News Start-Up, Aims to Challenge The Sun
BALTIMORE — Local news wars have largely gone the way of the phone booth as newspapers have shriveled and reporter jobs have been cut. But one is taking shape in Baltimore, bringing a new kind of rivalry. The Baltimore Banner, an online news site that started publishing in recent weeks, is trying to go head […]
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Afghan Restaurateurs Provide Hope to Refugees Fleeing the Taliban
Hamasa Ebadi, 27, and her parents, Hamida, 58, and Atiq, 60, opened the tiny restaurant in the fall of 2020, inside a former bubble-tea shop. And Assad Akbari, the former longtime general manager and chef at the Helmand, has announced plans to open his own Afghan restaurant this year, on the same street. Ms. Ebadi […]
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Baltimore Museum Guards Take Seats at the Curators’ Table
BALTIMORE — Museum guards have been a focal point of unionizing efforts and equity and safety conversations sweeping U.S. museums in the wake of Covid, Black Lives Matter protests and the recent stabbing at MoMA. Yet they have largely remained an anonymous group. “When you’re a guard, you’re on display like everything else, but you’re […]
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Baltimore Prosecutor Charged With Perjury and Filing False Loan Applications
Marilyn Mosby, Baltimore’s top prosecutor, was indicted Thursday on charges that she perjured herself to obtain money from a retirement fund and made false statements on loan applications to buy two vacation homes in Florida. The charges against Ms. Mosby, 41, who was first elected state’s attorney in 2014 and drew national attention the following […]
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In a First, Man Receives a Heart From a Genetically Altered Pig
“It was either die or do this transplant,” Mr. Bennett said before the surgery, according to officials at the University of Maryland Medical Center. “I want to live. I know it’s a shot in the dark, but it’s my last choice.” Dr. Griffith said he first broached the experimental treatment in mid-December, a “memorable” and […]
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A Divided World United to Launch the James Webb Space Telescope
America was a nation divided, but that did not stop it from building parts of the James Webb Space Telescope in a red state and testing them in a blue one. The European Union and Russia were facing off over Ukraine and other issues this year, but scientists from both sides will benefit greatly from […]
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Painter of Elijah Cummings Portrait Finds It’s a Career-Changer
One Baltimore son has painted another. When Representative Elijah E. Cummings died in October 2019 at age 68, he became the first African American elected official to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol, where he served for more than two decades in the House of Representatives from Maryland’s 7th District. In January, the congressman’s […]
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