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Financing a targeted approach to reducing violent crime in Baltimore could create a return on investment of $135 for every dollar of backing, according to the author of a new book on urban brutality. Thomas Abt, author of “Bleeding Out: ...

There’s no time frame for closed Baltimore roads to reopen and for Light Rail service to be restored following an underground vault collapse alongside a CSX rail tunnel near downtown. The collapsed vault left a void along Howard Street that engineers ...

Earlier this month Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Maltz Research Laboratories renewed its lease at 855 N. Wolfe St. in east Baltimore. The renewed lease, negotiated by JLL, allowed Lieber Institute to stay in its 50,000-square-foot space near Johns Hopkins ...

Baltimore Mayor Bernard C. Jack Young has hired from within the ranks of city government to fill the top job at the city’s struggling Department of Transportation. Young’s office said on Monday that the mayor hired Steve Sharkey as the ...

Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh filed a lawsuit against a team of developers, seeking “significant penalties” for allegedly violating state environmental and asbestos control laws. The attorney general’s office named 1411 Division Street LLC, TCG Development and the firm’s ...

Maryland has designated a pair of new zones providing tax incentives aimed at bolstering artistic endeavors. Secretary of Commerce Kelly M. Schulz said on Monday that the Department of Commerce selected the town of Easton and the Pennsylvania Avenue corridor ...

Maryland’s NAACP says its support for a proposed maglev train linking Baltimore and Washington boils down to jobs. Officials from the Maryland State Conference NAACP said on Friday the organization supports the project, expected to cost more than $10 billion ...

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A tough critic of Baltimore’s troubled transportation system now leads a new Baltimore City Council committee tasked with searching for solutions to those issues. City Council President Brandon Scott created the council’s Transportation Committee and named  as chairman Councilman Ryan ...

(UPDATED, 12:20 p.m.) — Issues of class and race permeated the first town hall meeting to discuss a proposed redevelopment of Baltimore’s historic Lexington Market. Several residents during the Wednesday night meeting at the market, which was intended to gather ...

Louis S. Diggs, 88, served in the Korean War with the all-black 231st Transportation Truck Battalion of the Maryland National Guard, returned from war and fell in love with a Catonsville girl. Diggs grew up in Baltimore’s Sandtown community, but ...