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A prayer service and candlelight vigil was held at Sacred Heart of Jesus in Highlandtown for the men who lost their lives while working on the Key Bridge at the time of the collapse. On Monday evening, people filled the pews to listen to prayers, sing hymns and pay their respects through 6 minutes of silence; one minute for each victim.

The Washington County Free Library at 100 S. Potomac St., Hagerstown, is offering a booth for community members to use for personal telehealth appointments. The telehealth pod is on the third floor of the Alice Virginia and David W. Fletcher Library near the study rooms and new community health-related information displays.

Frances Miller has been commuting from her Middle River home to Anne Arundel County for years — she used the Francis Scott Key Bridge to get there every Tuesday through Thursday. On her first commute since its collapse on March 26, she accidentally started driving toward the bridge out of habit. With the bridge, her morning trip used to take 30 to 40 minutes.

The Pride of Baltimore II, the replica of a 19th century “Baltimore clipper,” has finally returned to its home dock in Baltimore. The ship had been anchored in Annapolis after the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge left it unable to return home. On Monday, as most people were looking up at the partial solar eclipse, the ship’s crew was given the green light to sail the vessel through one of the alternate channels created to get ships through the wreckage.

Infrastructure projects in Frederick’s proposed fiscal 2025 budget include continuing design work on the intersection of East and All Saints streets in Frederick, as well as looking at traffic signals at several other intersections in the city. The Capital Improvements Program in Mayor Michael O’Connor’s proposed fiscal 2025 budget includes work to construct a new traffic signal at the intersection of East Street and All Saints Street in downtown Frederick, as well as realigning the entrances and exits to the nearby transit center as necessary.

Had you crossed the Francis Scott Key Bridge just a few weeks ago, as millions of motorists did before a wayward container ship struck it in the early hours of March 26, you’d have passed below a familiar steel superstructure of triangulated sections about half a mile long, a sight that was part of Baltimore’s skyline for decades.

A new video shows containers being removed from the Dali, the cargo ship that crashed into the Key Bridge causing it to collapse on March 26. The Dali remains stuck in the Patapsco River. This process allows the Unified Command to prepare to clear the portion of the bridge that remains on top of the ship, and is also a crucial step in removing the ship and reopening the Fort Henry Channel.

As Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates announced charges Wednesday against juveniles involved in a carjacking and robbery spree last fall, he also cited the need to hold parents criminally and financially accountable in cases where parents know of their child’s crimes. Baltimore prosecutors accused 20 young people of a series of armed carjackings and robberies throughout the city in October and November.