Hampton Elementary School parents have asked the Baltimore County Board of Education to relieve their overcrowded classrooms for months. Teachers host class sizes well beyond state-recommended limits. The gymnasium cannot hold all students for assemblies. Lunch now spans three hours to fit each student into the cafeteria. By Baltimore County school system’s count, the Timonium school reached 112% capacity in September. Hampton Elementary parents say the current percentage is even higher. Across the school system, nearly one-third of schools are at or over capacity, according to August data.

Regular flooding that puts large swaths of Fells Point and the Inner Harbor underwater. Blistering heatwaves that target some of the city’s most vulnerable people. Stronger summer storms and winters without snowfall. This is Baltimore’s future unless the world takes drastic steps to mitigate some of the extremes of climate change, experts say. Even with immediate action, some change is baked in. We’re already living with climate change.

The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed that a Southwest Airlines plane and an ambulance came within 200 feet of a collision at the Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport in January. In a statement released to WBAL NewsRadio, a spokesperson of the FAA said the driver of the ambulance crossed the runway without authorization.

The “working theory” on the explosion last week at a building on the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant campus is that it might have been ignited after hot oil escaped from a leaking pipe, according to an inspection report from the Maryland Department of the Environment. The explosion blew holes in three walls of the building, which is operated by a private contractor called Synagro, and the firefighting efforts covered the first floor in 6 to 8 inches of water, according to the state’s report. No one was injured, but the building remains closed.

There have been several instances of violent crime between Baltimore City Public School students in 2023, and there’s also been an uptick of guns being recovered at schools. Baltimore City Schools Police Sgt. Clyde Boatwright spoke with C4 and Bryan Nehman on Wednesday. He said officials recovered 13 guns so far this school year and on pace to surpass the 15 recovered last school year.

State prison and Baltimore city jail policies are effectively funneling transgender people into solitary confinement-like settings for long stretches of time, according to formerly incarcerated trans people and advocacy groups who testified before the Maryland Senate last week while pushing for new housing and search policies.

Whitman-Walker Health System is seeing change at the top — again. Ryan Moran, who was appointed CEO in fall 2021 of Whitman-Walker Health System, one of the D.C. nonprofit’s two sibling entities, is stepping down for a post with the Maryland Department of Health, Whitman-Walker announced Tuesday. Cindy Lewin, a former D.C. partner at the law firm Venable LLP and, before that, general counsel of AARP, will step in as interim chief executive of Whitman-Walker Health System, a philanthropic and research institute, starting April 10, according to the organization.

Calling all early birds and night owls. Amtrak has announced new low train fares from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. for travelers going from New York City to Washington, D.C., and stops in between. Passengers on the Northeast Regional and select routes can get fares as low as $15 (New York to BWI), or $5 (from Baltimore to Philadelphia). But you may have to be willing to wake up at the crack of dawn — or just never go to bed.