Federal education funding freeze leaves $11 million hole for Baltimore The U.S. Department of Education froze over $110 million for Maryland, including $11 million for Baltimore. Maryland’s Attorney General is suing to get it back.

Baltimore City Schools may need to plug an $11 million hole left by the feds

Police on Wednesday released body camera footage depicting the final moments of 70-year-old Pytorcarcha Brooks, who was shot and killed on June 25 in her West Baltimore home by officers.

The footage reaffirms concerns raised by experts in de-escalation tactics. buff.ly/SVyzLlY

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Wie The Baltimore Banner mit seinem KI-gesteuerten Tagging-System wertvolle Einsichten in Nutzerpräferenzen gewann Das Pulitzer-preisgekrönte Lokalnachrichtenportal entwickelte ein KI-System zur Klassifizierung von Inhalten, testete es mit 1400 Baseball-Beiträgen und lernte: Menschen ziehen besser als Statistiken

Great question! Here's a recap of a presentation I just did at an AI summit on how we are actually doing this (yes, it's in German but the translate tool works well): newsmachines.substack.com/p/wie-the-ba...

We've heard some feedback about this announcement and I want to be clear on how we will use AI. It will be used to help us classify stories that have already been published in a more granular way so that readers get more relevant related content. We will never use it to replace real journalists.

Thank you all for your feedback. I want to be clear on how we will use AI. It will be used to help us classify stories that have already been published in a more granular way so that readers get more relevant related content. We will never use it to create journalism. Here's our AI policy:

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Jaywalking on Pratt Street downtown will enliven you

Hundreds of weather forecasters fired in latest wave of DOGE cuts Federal workers who were not let go said the afternoon layoffs included meteorologists who do crucial local forecasts in National Weather Service offices across the country.

Hundreds of weather forecasters fired in latest wave of DOGE cuts

Di Pasquale’s decades-old sign returns to its Highlandtown building The Di Pasquale’s sign, a part of the Italian market and restaurant’s history since 1988, had been stolen earlier this week from its Gough Street building, owners said.

Whoever took DiPasquale's sign “walked right up here, ripped it down, and walked right back down toward Eaton Street" - and now has returned it www.thebaltimorebanner.com/culture/food...

Local news partnership: Drug overdose deaths plague one generation of Black men in Baltimore and in cities across the country. @thebaltimorebanner.com partnered with @nytimes.com and @biglocalnews.bsky.social plus 9 local newsrooms to tell a story we found first in Baltimore. Threading links below.

What we know about Luigi Mangione's back injury, surgery The middle photo in Luigi Mangione’s header image on X, formerly known as Twitter, is an X-ray photo of a spine with four screws in it. The photo is sandwiched between an image on the left of a Pokémon...

What we know about Luigi Mangione’s back injury, surgery

It’s pretty foggy out today in Baltimore.

My colleague Justin Fenton doing a CNN hit.

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