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The NAACP on Tuesday led a group of civil rights organizations in calling for President Biden to pardon Marilyn Mosby, a former state’s attorney for Baltimore, Md.  Mosby was convicted in February on a federal charge of making a false mortgage application in order to secure a lower interest rate. The conviction followed a November 2023 conviction on…

Salvage teams recovered the sixth and last missing body of a construction worker killed in the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.  The body of José Mynor López, 37, was found by salvage divers at the scene of the bridge collapse, more than one month since a…

A deeper channel to allow commercial ships into and out of the Port of Baltimore is set to open Thursday, a major step in reopening trade after the port was closed due to the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge last month. The Army Corps of Engineers has opened three shallow, temporary channels under…

The EPA approved selling a higher ethanol blend nationwide for the third consecutive summer, citing global tensions impacting the world’s fuel supply.

The body of a missing construction worker who was on the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore when it collapsed last week has been found, according to authorities. The Unified Command, a group that includes the U.S. Coast Guard and Maryland state agencies, said in a press release that the body of Maynor Yasir Suazo-Sandoval…

There are 11 ships trapped in the Port of Baltimore behind the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge — including four that are supposed to be able to set sail at a moment’s notice to support the overseas deployment of U.S. military forces.

The remains are proving hard to remove than hoped.

Investigating the events that led to the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge last week, authorities began by focusing on the actions of one person who was on the ship that collided with it: the pilot.

Days after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed, people started seeing what they thought was debris from the disaster washing up on the shore.

The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge could potentially surpass the maritime industry’s largest-ever monetary loss.