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January 24, 2023 at 10:25 am
It's an emotional day for the Baltimore City Fire Department as the deadly South Stricker Street fire claimed the lives of three Baltimore city firefighters in the line of duty one year ago today.
January 24, 2022 is a day people in Baltimore will not soon forget. Firefighters gathered in solidarity at the site of the tragic fire for an informal service Tuesday morning, while staff at firehouses across the city will remember the solemn day.
Firefighters spent hours on scene of the fire at a vacant home at the corner of South Stricker and Pratt Streets. The home collapsed, taking the lives of Lieutenants Kelsey Sadler, Paul Butrim, and firefighter Kenny Lacayo along with it.
Several events will memorialize the three fallen firefighters.
Baltimore city firehouses will take a moment ...
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January 24, 2023 at 10:02 am
The following thought on this week's Torah portion comes from Rabbi Aharon Darmon of Jerusalem:"The first verse of this week's Torah portion contains a powerful approach to facing formidable challenges in our lives: 'The Lord said to Moses: Come to Pharaoh.'Many of us may feel that there is something that blocks our way in life, some kind of 'Pharaoh' that enslaves and stymies us. But instead of confronting this Pharaoh, we escape and occupy ourselves with other things and thus postpone our personal Exodus from Egypt.The parasha is clearly telling us this: come to Pharaoh. Go directly to your adversary, do not avoid your problem. Don't run away, don't look for distractions, cope directly with whatever distresses you. This is relevant both to single a...
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January 24, 2023 at 9:39 am
Baltimore, MD - Jan. 24, 2023 - The following products sold by Garden of Life of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, with the specified lot numbers and expiration dates, bear an unauthorized STAR-K symbol and contain a non-kosher ingredient.
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January 24, 2023 at 9:36 am
Baltimore, MD – Jan. 24, 2023 – 9:33AM – At the intersection of Cherokee and Chippewa, the entrance to Chippewa is blocked off .
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January 24, 2023 at 8:38 am
Baltimore, MD – Jan. 24, 2023 - 8:35AM - A motor vehicle accident has Reisterstown Road blocked at Mount Wilson Lane.
Avoid the area
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January 23, 2023 at 11:12 pm
Baltimore, MD - Jan. 23, 2023 - The final discussion for this matter will take place during the work session on January 31st.
Click here to read the bill.Please send your thoughts on the issue to: council2@baltimorecountymd.gov
410-887-3385
410-887-5791 (fax) The final vote will be on February 6th. If the community does not provide input by January 31st, this will become law as the council will vote without further discussion on February 6th.
###Baltimore, MD - January 15, 2023 – Baltimore County Councilman Izzy Patoka has proposed an across-the-board ban on all plastic shopping bags in Baltimore County. Shoppers would have 3 options to get their groceries home: (1) carry their groceries out of the store in their hands (!), or (2) pay the store 10 cents per...
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January 23, 2023 at 10:15 pm
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sharply criticizes murdered Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in his new book, questioning his journalism credentials and lambasting what he calls the media’s sympathetic coverage of his brutal killing in Saudi Arabia.
“He didn’t deserve to die, but we need to be clear about who he was -- and too many in the media were not,” Pompeo wrote in “Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love.” NBC News obtained a copy of the book in advance of its Jan. 24 release.
Pompeo, a potential 2024 presidential candidate, mocked the media’s portrayal of Khashoggi as “a Saudi Arabian Bob Woodward who was martyred for bravely criticizing the Saudi royal family through his opinion articles in th...
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January 23, 2023 at 10:14 pm
Seven people were killed in two related shootings at a mushroom farm and a trucking firm in a coastal community south of San Francisco on Monday, officials said.
San Mateo County Board of Supervisors President Dave Pine says four people were killed at the farm and three at the trucking business on the outskirts of Half Moon Bay, a city about 30 miles south of San Francisco.
It was not immediately clear how the locations were connected.
The San Mateo County Sheriff said on Twitter: "The Sheriff's Office is responding to a shooting incident with multiple victims in the area of (Highway) 92 and the (Half Moon Bay) City limits.
"Suspect is in custody. There is no ongoing threat to the community at this time," it added a short time later.
The shootings incidents come less than 48 hour...
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January 23, 2023 at 9:30 pm
With the General Assembly in full swing, the pressure is mounting to get bills drafted and introduced, but it’s unclear if a top priority for Baltimore’s new top prosecutor will get introduced.
On day one in office, Baltimore City State’s Attorney Ivan Bates said his legislative push included evening the sentencing maximums for misdemeanor gun offenses. Bates said if a defendant is between 18 and 20 years of age, the maximum sentence was five years, but for offenders over the age of 21, he said the max penalty was three years.
“The one thing I’ll go down to Annapolis and talk about is let’s raise that from three years to five years,” Bates said during an exclusive interview with FOX45 News hours after being sworn in as state’s attorney.
A ...
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January 23, 2023 at 9:27 pm
Former US President Donald Trump is preparing to return to Twitter for his upcoming presidential campaign and ditch his own social media platform Truth Social, Rolling Stone reports.
When Trump first founded Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), he agreed to a “social media exclusivity term” that required him to “first channel any and all social media communications” to his Truth Social account for six hours before posting the content to other platforms, the report said, citing to SEC filings.
But two sources familiar with the matter told Rolling Stone that since late last year, Trump has informed several people close to him that he doesn’t want to re-up the exclusivity agreement with Truth Social.
The 18-month term of that requirement is up ...
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January 23, 2023 at 7:12 pm
Baltimore, MD – Jan. 23, 2023 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Zechariah Shear & Tova Dickstein on their engagement.
Mazel tov to parents Aryeh & Miriam Dickstein and Zvi & Shaindy Shear and grandparents Arnold & Ina Shear, Sue Dickstein, Stuart & Irene Hoffman and Ronnie & Ruthie Friedman
יה"ר שיזכו לבנות בית נאמן בישראל. אמן!
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January 23, 2023 at 5:49 pm
Tax season is heading into full swing as tax professionals urge those filing to get it done early this year, to avoid the knock on the door nobody wants.
"The agent knocked on the door. She wasn't there and left that paper there and she ran home to go and get it. Sure enough, it was for 2021 taxes not even like she was behind on her taxes," Jason Upshaw recalled, regarding one of his clients at Belvedere Tax Group.
He says the lesson behind that knock is simple: don't get behind filing this year.
Whether you're an early filer starting now or a late filer waiting until March or April, prepare to receive less in 2022's tax refund.
"The IRS has already warned that refunds will be smaller this year compared to last year," Upshaw said.
But, there are some tax brea...
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January 23, 2023 at 3:56 pm
President Joe Biden is scheduled to travel to Baltimore next week, the White House announced Monday.
The president is scheduled to travel to Baltimore on Jan. 30 to discuss how Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding will replace the 150-year-old Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel to address the largest bottleneck for commuters on the Northeast Corridor between Washington, D.C., and New Jersey.
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January 23, 2023 at 3:22 pm
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this evening (Monday, 23 January 2023), at the Knesset, met with a delegation from the American Jewish Committee (AJC) Executive Council.The Prime Minister explained the danger that Iran poses for the region and the entire world by developing nuclear weapons and stressed the goal that Iran not become a nuclear state needs to be a shared goal of Israel and the US.Prime Minister Netanyahu also stated the importance of expanding the Abraham Accords and said that expanding them will promote regional stability.The Prime Minister thanked the AJC leaders for their activity on behalf of Jews around the world and for strengthening the very important bond between Israel and the US.Also participating in the meeting were AJC CEO Ted Deutch, AJC President Michael Tich...
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January 23, 2023 at 2:35 pm
A majority of voters fault Dr. Anthony Fauci, former chief medical adviser to the president, for mismanaging the government's COVID-19 response — and said Congress should investigate, polling by a conservative grassroots group shows.
In the survey conducted for Convention of States Action by The Trafalgar Group, released Monday, found that 52.2% of voters say the congressional investigation should look into Fauci for "inconsistent testimony about his research leading up to the pandemic" — and his actions managing the outbreak, while 44.5% disagreed.
"Had the COVID-19 pandemic been well-managed, it would have been prudent for Congress to hold hearings to talk about what we learned and what could be done better in the future," Mark Meckler, president of Conv...
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January 23, 2023 at 2:26 pm
New documents filed in federal court reveal why two of the members of Marilyn Mosby's defense team are asking the court to withdraw from the case. Both attorneys say representing Mosby would create a financial hardship and conflict with their schedules.
In one filing, attorney Lucius Outlaw says the schedule for Mosby's trial will conflict with his teaching duties at the Howard University School of Law. In the other filing, attorney Gary Proctor noted that he booked a non-refundable trip to the United Kingdom and that no one consulted him about his availability.
Both attorneys are representing Mosby pro bono.
Proctor also notes that he is one attorney in a two-person law firm that represents clients facing the death penalty, which potentially creates an ethics violat...
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January 23, 2023 at 2:06 pm
The head of House Democrats has submitted Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) to sit on the powerful Intelligence Committee, setting up a battle with Republican leaders who are vowing to keep them off the panel.
Separately, Democrats this week are also expected to seat Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, according to a source familiar with the Democrats’ plans, which will likely prompt GOP leaders to hold a floor vote to remove her.
In a letter sent Saturday to Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Schiff, the top Democrat on the Intelligence panel, and Swalwell are both “eminently qualified” to continue their service on...
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January 23, 2023 at 2:00 pm
A former senior FBI counterintelligence official who spearheaded the Trump-Russia probe was arrested and charged over his own alleged ties to a sanctioned Russian oligarch amid the war in Ukraine.
Charles McGonigal, the former Special Agent in Charge of FBI’s Counterintelligence Division in New York, who retired in 2018, is accused of violating U.S. sanctions by agreeing to provide services to Oleg Deripaska, a sanctioned Russian oligarch. He is charged alongside Sergey Shestakov, a former Soviet and Russian diplomat who later became a U.S. citizen and a Russian interpreter for courts and government offices, through a five-count indictment unsealed in Manhattan federal court Monday.
McGonigal and Shestakov both were arrested Saturday. The indictment is a rare ...
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January 23, 2023 at 1:57 pm
The report states that one of the main goals of the trip was to discuss a possible visit by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the United Arab Emirates
Israel's Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer made a secret visit to the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, according to the Israeli news site Walla.
The report stated that one of the main goals of the trip was to discuss a possible visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been scheduled to visit Abu Dhabi multiple times, including in 2021 when he was last in the Prime Minister's Office, but ultimately did not make the journey.
Netanyahu was expected to visit the Gulf nation in the first few weeks of his new government, but the trip was canceled following a visit to Jerusalem's Temple ...
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January 23, 2023 at 1:52 pm
“Incidents of improper conduct by charedi soldiers in the Netzah Yehuda Battalion are not unusual compared to other battalions. The fact that Netzah Yehuda is being repeatedly condemned – while emphasizing that they are charedi soldiers – indicates that there is an agenda behind this”, said Maj. Gen. (res.) Nadav Padan in a closed meeting on haredi recruitment to the IDF held last Saturday at the Fremont Hotel in Austin, Texas. Major General Padan, who until two and a half years ago served as General of Central Command and currently serves as the National Director of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) in the USA, spoke at the annual conference of the Israeli-American Council (IAC). He was responding to a question from panel moderator, journalist Miri M...
