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Why juvenile justice legislation named in honor of slain Baltimore teen hasn’t passed
Gov. Wes Moore waded through hundreds of pieces of legislation and has signed over a thousand since the 2024 legislative session ended in April. But one juvenile justice bill sponsored in honor of a slain teen girl never saw ink from his ceremonial pen. The NyKayla Strawder Memorial Act never even reached his desk. NyKayla Strawder was 15 in 2022 when she was fatally shot on the porch outside ...
Baltimore to implement second year of summer youth curfew enforcement, additional teen events
Baltimore City officials presented a plan Thursday to enforce a youth curfew for the second summer. Mayor Brandon Scott last year began strictly enforcing the long-standing weekend curfew in response to an alarming rise of youth shootings. As the school year winds down, the city’s weeklong curfew will start Memorial Day and run until Labor Day. Curfew starts at 9 p.m. for teens under 14. Teens ...
U.S. Air Force Airman from Maryland killed by car will be honored during Memorial Day Ceremony
BALTIMORE – U.S. Air Force Airman Makai Cummings was returning to his base in North Carolina from a visit home to Baltimore when his car got a flat tire.He pulled over on I-295 outside Richmond, Virginia, to change the tire in the early morning hours of May 8, 2023, when he was struck and killed in a hit-and-run."I don't know why this had to happen to my son, but I trust God," said Rotina Lacy, Cummings' mother. "I'm commanded to forgive (the driver)."Cummings will be honored Monday at the Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens' 57th annual Memorial Day Ceremony, honoring the...
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