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March 25, 2018

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Demonstrators channel anger, sadness over Florida and Maryland school shootings into calls for action

Sunday, Mar 25

Less than six weeks after one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history — and four days after two students were shot at a school in St. Mary’s County — participants in the March for Our Lives rally said the event would take its place in history alongside past rallies.

Baltimore students lead large crowd through downtown in protest against gun violence

Students from Baltimore Polytechnic Institute led a large crowd that stretched through blocks of downtown, through the Inner Harbor, for a local version of the national March For Our Lives protest Saturday.

After Maryland school shooting, Great Mills students join D.C. rally: 'We will march for you, Jaelynn Willey'

“After hitting so close to home, it becomes that much more real to us,” said one of the march organizers, 18-year-old Jillian Carty.

Baltimore's Excel students, no strangers to gun violence, make their voices heard at March For Our Lives

Students from Excel Academy in Baltimore, which has lost seven students to gun violence since last year, went to the March for Our Lives anti-gun violence rally in Washington on Saturday to tell U.S. policymakers that “enough is enough.”

End of an era: Will 2018 mark the last ride for the Orioles as we know them?

With so much uncertainty from top to bottom, is this the final ride for the Orioles core group?

Formula changes mean more casino money to city even as Horseshoe revenue declines

While Horseshoe Casino Baltimore has seen revenue fall since the December 2016 opening of MGM National Harbor in Prince George’s County, the City of Baltimore is actually receiving more money than before from the casino.

Rodricks: Two women who lost loved ones to gun violence in Baltimore establish a scholarship fund

The new scholarship fund will be formally announced with the creation of a GoFundMe page on Tuesday. It honors two victims of homicides, Jim Forrester and Victorious Swift.

Museums celebrate 150th anniversary of immigrant ship's arrival in Baltimore

On Saturday, the B&O Railroad Museum and the Baltimore Immigration Museum partnered to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the SS Baltimore's arrival in Locust Point.

Nearly 200 musicians audition to play for the Baltimore Marching Ravens

The Baltimore Marching Ravens held its annual tryout for veterans and hopefuls, which requires them to play for judges and sight read a piece of music they are given on the spot.

Jacques Kelly: Learning to respect Baltimore's March winter weather

A newspaper’s four-word headline told the story: ‘Weather Man Goofs Again.” Baltimore’s 1958 storm taught me a lesson: March storms can be treacherous in Maryland and the mid-Atlantic.