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For some, the Francis Scott Key Bridge symbolized the working-class communities around it — for others, the city itself. Blue-collar workers crossed it. Families went crabbing around it. Teenagers celebrated new driver’s licenses by traversing it. And couples were known to get engaged near it. Completed in 1977, the Francis Scott Key Bridge was a practical, final link to the beltway of roads

Two teenagers were sentenced to prison after they pleaded guilty to first-degree assault in connection with a shooting near a Brighton high school. Dakarei Edwards, 18, and Jayden Garcia, 17, pleaded guilty to first-degree assault with serious bodily injury, according to Adams County District Court records. Each was sentenced to four years in juvenile detention and 12 years in the Colorado

EDISTO BEACH, S.C. — A Cincinnati man is being celebrated after he helped two teenage girls caught in a rip current in South Carolina. Financial adviser Michael Louis Lesan, 41, is one of 17 people honored with a Carnegie Medal, given to men and women who show extraordinary acts of heroism — even risking death — to save others. The Carnegie Hero Fund said Lesan was with his family at Edisto

A 19-year-old woman was killed and four others, including three teenage girls, were injured in a shooting early Sunday in Austin on the West Side. The women and teens were inside a business just after 1 a.m. in the 5300 block of West Madison Street when a group began shooting at them and fled the scene, Chicago police said. One 19-year-old woman was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the