Good morning, Baltimore! Here's what you need to know for your Wednesday.
WEATHER
It will be partly cloudy and warm today with temperatures in the low 80s. There is a chance of scattered thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening. The overnight low will be 54, and winds will be out of the east-northeast at 4 to 8 mph. Tomorrow will be partly sunny with temperatures in the high 70s.
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FROM TODAY'S FRONT PAGE
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Tuesday during a visit to Baltimore that the Justice Department will examine the best options to improve the Baltimore City Police Department in the aftermath of the death of Freddie Gray. A full-scale civil rights investigation has not been rule out, she said.
Marc L. Zayon, the defense attorney for Baltimore officer Edward Nero, one of the six police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, is challenging prosecutors' claim that Gray was falsely arrested, and filed a motion Tuesday demanding to inspect the knife that Gray carried.
Maryland Film Festival Director Jed Dietz is hopeful, like other business owners who suffered from a week of civic unrest and a 10 p.m. curfew, that people are ready to come back to the city and enjoy themselves.
East Coast fisheries regulators agreed Tuesday to allow a modest boost in the catch of Atlantic menhaden because scientists now believe the little oily fish on which so many other species depend are not as scarce as previously thought.
FROM LAST NIGHT
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has formally ruled out a property tax cut for the coming year after flirting with the idea of giving one.
Police were called to a triple shooting Tuesday in West Baltimore, following three shootings -- one of them fatal -- in the city Monday night, Baltimore police said.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent who is running for the Democratic nomination for president, railed Tuesday against the GOP budget just approved by Congress, telling a Prince George's County audience the spending plan would exacerbate poverty and income inequality.
