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Baltimore County Councilmembers have introduced new legislation aimed at addressing the pressing issue of school overcrowding in the region. The proposed measures could restrict development in areas where schools are overcrowded and limit the number of students allowed to attend a school at any given time. “If you’re at 100%, 115%, 130%, where are these […]

A public rift between Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and Baltimore City State’s Attorney Ivan Bates over crime-fighting strategies and political endorsements appears to have been resolved. The two leaders have released a joint statement announcing their commitment to mending their strained relationship and working more closely together in the future. The conflict between Scott and […]

Authorities in Montgomery County, Maryland have arrested an 18-year-old student, Andrea Ye of Rockville, for an alleged mass shooting plot targeting Wootton High School. The arrest followed the discovery of a disturbing 129-page manifesto authored by Ye, detailing strategies for carrying out such an attack, despite Ye’s claims that it was a work of fiction. […]

An elementary school teacher in Anne Arundel County, Maryland is under investigation after being accused of inappropriately touching several students, according to an investigation by Fox45 Project Baltimore. Matthew Schlegel, a third-grade teacher at Severna Park Elementary School, was removed from the classroom indefinitely on March 18th. “Parents were notified that Schlegel had been removed […]

A Baltimore County high school is being described as an unsafe environment by one of its own teachers after a series of violent fights broke out on campus in recent weeks. Fox45 Project Baltimore spoke with Steven Kronberg, a social studies teacher at Loch Raven High School who was injured trying to break up one […]

The owner of the container ship that struck the Key Bridge is taking legal measures to try to defray the potentially enormous costs. The massive ship Dali struck a bridge support in Baltimore last month, causing sections of the Francis Scott Key Bridge to collapse onto a road crew, killing six workers. The ship’s owner, […]

Baltimore City State’s Attorney Ivan Bates announced charges have been filed against a suspect in the 2017 killing of an off-duty Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police sergeant. The charges were made possible through the newly created Cold Case Unit, a collaborative effort alongside Maryland and D.C. officials. Dion Thompson has been charged with first-degree murder, conspiracy, […]

A juvenile suspect was taken into custody last week after crashing a stolen vehicle and attempting to flee the scene in Columbia, according to the Howard County Police Department. On April 9th, police responded to reports of a vehicle collision in a Columbia neighborhood. Upon arriving at the scene, witnesses informed officers that they had […]

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown revealed the successful dismantling of two significant drug trafficking rings operating in Baltimore through coordinated investigations by state and local law enforcement agencies. The first case targeted the “LND” organization based in northwest Baltimore, with the acronym referring to the Longwood, North, and Dukeland neighborhood streets where they operated. Ten […]

Maryland’s Governor Wes Moore provided an update this week on the massive cleanup and recovery efforts in the wake of the catastrophic Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse on March 26th. During Tuesday’s briefing, Moore revealed that crews have made remarkable progress, extracting a colossal amount of steel debris from the Patapsco River over the past […]