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A cold weekend of rain is predicted to make way for warmer days in Baltimore. Sunday will remain mostly wet with an 80% chance of precipitation and a high of 66, according to the National Weather Service. Temperatures are forecasted to drop to 64 Sunday night with patchy fog. Temperatures Monday are expected to peak…

A 25-year-old man was killed and a 26-year-old was injured in a shooting just after midnight in West Baltimore, police said. Officers responded at about 12:24 a.m. Sunday to the 3300 block of Reisterstown Road, near the Liberty Square and Park Circle neighborhoods, and found the two men suffering from apparent gunshot wounds, Baltimore Police…

Daniel P. Jordan, who as president of the foundation that owns Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s plantation in Virginia, broadened its educational mission — and, perhaps most significant, commissioned a study that found that Jefferson had almost certainly fathered six children with Sally Hemings, one of hundreds of people he enslaved — died March 21 in Charlottesville,…

Reb Staup is a local blacksmith, woodworker and T-shirt designer living in Westminster. When Staup was young he liked to draw. “I was always interested in some type of art,” Staup said. He started blacksmithing in 2004, when he took classes from the nonprofit Blacksmith Guild of Central Maryland, Inc. He helped at the historic…

The leading candidates for Baltimore mayor collectively spent more than $1.5 million in the last month, primarily on television and radio advertising, as they made their final push ahead of the May 14 primary. That spending, as well as ongoing fundraising efforts, were detailed in campaign finance reports filed late Friday. According to the reports,…

By TARA COPP (Associated Press) EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — With the midday sun blazing, an experimental orange and white F-16 fighter jet launched with a familiar roar that is a hallmark of U.S. airpower. But the aerial combat that followed was unlike any other: This F-16 was controlled by artificial intelligence, not…

Recovery crews are preparing to remove the piece of Francis Scott Key Bridge lying on top of the container ship Dali, a step necessary in opening a deeper channel to shipping traffic, Key Bridge Unified Command said Friday. The Dali hit a key support pillar of the bridge on March 26, plunging the structure into…

By KAREN MATTHEWS, MICHAEL HILL, JULIE WATSON and CHRISTOPHER L. KELLER (Associated Press) NEW YORK (AP) — Police ordered pro-Palestinian protesters to abandon a tent encampment at New York University early Friday, following weeks of demonstrations and police crackdowns at college campuses nationwide that have resulted in more than 2,300 arrests. About a dozen protesters…

C. Milton Wright won its first UCBAC Susquehanna Division track and field championship Tuesday — capturing both boys and girls titles. Landon Krepps, a versatile senior sprinter, won three events for CMW: the 100 dash in 10.99 seconds, the 400 in 50.91 and the 200 in 22.33. Only the 100 was relatively close; Hamed Diallo…

A geometric, rainbow-hued mural by two Baltimore artists will liven up the west side of the Baltimore Convention Center as the latest installment of the Birdland Murals series, a collaboration between the Orioles and PNC Bank. The installation by Jessie Unterhalter and Katey Truhn, known as Jessie and Katey, is being unveiled Thursday, the Orioles…

Maryland transportation officials said Thursday that they expect to replace the Francis Scott Key Bridge with a new span in just over four years. The project to replace the span of Interstate 695 by fall of 2028 is estimated to cost between $1.7 and 1.9 billion, Maryland Transportation Secretary Paul Wiedefeld said on Thursday. Plans…

International News Gaza Ceasefire talks between Hamas and Israel may resume in Cairo shortly — if Hamas agrees to send negotiators. READ MORE Israeli officials confirmed that they’ve made concessions in the interest of closing a ceasefire deal: they’re now open to a ceasefire in exchange for the release of 20 to 33 hostages –…

When Donald Trump’s supporters discuss his secret documents case, their kneejerk reaction is always to say, “What about Joe Biden? He had secret documents, too.” It’s true that Biden, like a number of other ex-presidents and former vice presidents, did retain some documents that had secret classifications as they left office. In Biden’s case, after…

On an exceptionally hot spring afternoon at “The Beach” Tuesday, near the East Gate of Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus, a group of about 100 students (with some non-students mixed in) were, in the words of one participant, acting “pretty chill.” Most sat on the grass as if attending a picnic. Food and drinks were…

By CEDAR ATTANASIO, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and JONATHAN MATTISE (Associated Press) NEW YORK (AP) — Dozens of protesters took over a building at Columbia University in New York early Tuesday, barricading the entrances and unfurling a Palestinian flag out of a window in the latest escalation of demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war that have spread to…

By TIA GOLDENBERG (Associated Press) TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Tuesday to launch an incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are sheltering from the almost 7-month-long war, just as cease-fire negotiations between Israel and Hamas appear to be gaining steam. Netanyahu’s…

When I campaigned for the Office of the State’s Attorney for Baltimore City, I made three major promises to the residents of this city: to focus on illegal firearm possession that plagues our communities; to address quality of life offenses that infringe daily upon the residents’ enjoyment of their neighborhoods; and to rebuild the Office…

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A Baltimore County jury has found a man guilty of manslaughter in a 2020 fatal shooting, after the man, who was a minor at the time, successfully appealed a murder conviction in the case. Gary Melvin, 30, was killed by a single gunshot during the Aug. 16, 2020, shooting at an Exxon gas station in…

Even after years of hearing about the potential reach of artificial intelligence, we weren’t yet prepared for the sordid tale of how the athletic director at Pikesville High School might have used AI to frame the school’s principal this year. Last week, authorities said they arrested 31-year-old Dazhon Darien as he tried to board a…

If we want to effectively combat climate change, one of the most important steps is empowering and educating young leaders. As a child of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency employee, the influences I was exposed to at a young age caused protecting Mother Earth to be a central value in my life. If we want…

The Baltimore Sun’s excellent coverage of the death of Larry Lucchino, who envisioned and oversaw the building of Oriole Park at Camden Yards as a new-old small, urban, baseball-only park that became the model for sports architecture in America, reminds me that he was probably the only person to earn World Series rings (Baltimore 1983…