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1 week ago | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Sahana Jayaraman |Ryan Little |Ben Conarck
Baltimore ended April with five homicides, the lowest monthly total in recent memory, as looming cuts to federal grants threaten gun violence prevention programs. It marked the lowest total of any month in any year dating back to 2012, according to a Banner analysis of public crime data released on Open Baltimore, which covers 2012 to the present. Mayor Brandon Scott went even further, saying the total was the fewest in any one month in the city’s history.
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1 month ago | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Ryan Little
President Donald Trump justified his plans to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education in partthis weekby singling out Baltimore high schoolstudents’ performance on a statewide Algebra test. Students across Maryland underperformed on the test, too — just 17% passed in 2023 — but their scores were even worse in eighth-grade math last year.
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2 months ago | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Greg Morton |Ryan Little
Navigating Baltimore’s complicated middle and high school choice process can be tough. Students and their families can spend months trying to ensure that they choose a cityschool best suited to meet their academic needs, without knowing the logistical challenges of getting to and from campus using public transit. This tool allows you to compare routes from your neighborhood to any Baltimore public school.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Ryan Little
Maryland’s electoral votes went to Vice President Kamala Harris in the November election, but many reliably blue communities shifted to Donald Trump, who will be inaugurated Monday. A Baltimore Banner analysis of official precinct-level voting returns found Trump performed better in the 2024 presidential election than he did during the 2020 election in 76% of Maryland communities. That included vast swaths of Maryland’s most reliably blue communities along the Interstate 95 corridor.
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Tim Prudente |Daniel Zawodny |Ryan Little
Baltimore — a city that President-elect Donald Trump dismissed as “dangerous and filthy” — is a Democratic stronghold in reliably blue Maryland. But the region includes neighborhoods that have become bastions of strength for the Republican, who takes office Monday. “People who support Trump are silent,” said Richard Grilli, who voted for Trump in November at his polling place in Pikesville, four years after he voted for President Joe Biden.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Katrina Ventura |Greg Morton |Ryan Little
State officials say they don’t have a statewide map of Maryland precincts. The Banner compiled as many maps from counties as we could and approximated the others. Want to know how your precinct voted? How relative’s precincts voted? Just search an address. Why do some precincts look less detailed than others? Some of the precincts we have displayed are rough approximations of land assigned to polling locations for counties where we can’t get the real maps.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Ela Jalil |Ryan Little |Fernando Cobos Becerra
Fewer teens have been shot in Baltimore during the first half of this year than in any in the last decade, a Banner analysis of police data has found. The number of high school-aged teens shot in Baltimore has fallen by more than two-thirds compared to last year’s 10-year-high watermark. The Banner has been tracking youth gun violence since teenagers began being shot at exceedingly higher rates in 2022. This downward trend follows an overall decrease in homicides in Baltimore.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
fredericknewspost.com | Lillian Reed |Cody Boteler |Ryan Little
A tornado was confirmed in Montgomery County and multiple tornado warnings dotted Maryland and Baltimore as storms rolled through the state Wednesday night. Earl Stoddard, the assistant chief administrative officer for the Montgomery County executive, said it appears two tornadoes touched down, producing a large debris field spanning many miles. kAmpE =62DE @?6 E@C?25@ E@F4965 5@H? :? 2 ?6:893@C9@@5 42==65 ~=5 %@H?
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May 5, 2024 | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Lee Sanderlin |Ryan Little
There’s a stretch of North Avenue, on the far west end between Poplar Grove Road and Bloomingdale Avenue, that stays on Sheila Dixon’s mind. It’s not a particularly remarkable segment of the east-to-west roadway that slices Baltimore’s inner city from its northern half. If anything, it looks a lot like other segments of North Avenue, with dilapidated facades and vacant buildings lining the litter-filled street. “It’s filthy!” Dixon said.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Lee Sanderlin |Ryan Little
On a clear afternoon in early January 2011, the Geeta, a 600-foot-long ship, set sail out of Baltimore. With little wind and the tide running out, the Liberian-flagged coal ship chugged under the Francis Scott Key Bridge, out of the Patapsco River and into the Chesapeake Bay. It made it 12 miles before disaster struck. The Geeta lost power, which caused its engine to cut out. Its pilot, a licensed Marylander capable of navigating the muddy estuary, ordered the anchor dropped.
