Clara Longo de Freitas is a breaking news reporter. She joined The Baltimore Banner in 2022, covering East Baltimore before joining the express desk. She’s covered the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, youth gun violence and immigrant issues. A graduate of the University of Maryland, she spent most of her college years looking into workers’ conditions amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Clara is also an illustrator and likes to paint in her free time. Originally from Brazil, she moved to the United States in 2016.
Temperatures will hover just above freezing Tuesday and Wednesday after the Baltimore region has seen one of the longest stretches of frigid cold in its history.
President Donald Trump’s massive immigration enforcement push has seen federal agents get violent with residents, raising the prospect of local authorities having to hold them accountable. Are Maryland’s police and prosecutors ready?
The powerful nor’easter that intensifies into a bomb cyclone will likely miss the Baltimore area, but the city could still see near record-breaking cold.
An Anne Arundel County sheriff’s deputy on Interstate 97 and two people on Interstate 95 in Harford County were hospitalized after airborne ice from another vehicle crashed through their windshields.
A major winter storm is on track to dump heavy snow — 11-13 inches — and ice on the Baltimore region this weekend, prompting warnings from state and local officials.
Snowfall will start in Maryland Saturday evening and continue into Sunday, with a high likelihood of at least 5 inches of snow and possibly more than 10, the National Weather Service said Thursday.