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City taxpayers will foot some of the bill for Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's recent trip to New Orleans in which she campaigned for a fellow Democrat and attended the "Monday Night Football" game between the Ravens and the Saints.

Baltimore's nearly $2.2 million proposal to reduce violent crime received preliminary approval from the City Council Monday, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said.

One man was killed and another critically wounded in a double shooting early Monday in West Baltimore.

Baltimore police want to model a homicide prevention program after the city of Milwaukee, open a new center to hold kids who break curfew and use $1.2 million in city gambling revenue to pay for overtime and staffing of high-crime areas.