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Divers have recovered the bodies of two of six workers who plunged into the water after a bridge collapsed in Baltimore. The others are presumed dead and officials said search efforts had been exhausted.

A major emergency rescue operation is underway after a bridge in the USA collapsed.

A Maryland appeals court refused on Wednesday to intervene in a lower court’s decision to free a man who served over 20 years in prison for the killing of a high school student, a case chronicled by the groundbreaking "Serial" podcast. The state Court of Special Appeals issued its order a day after prosecutors dropped charges against Adnan Syed in the 1999 killing of 18-year-old Hae Min Lee.

A massive brawl broke out at a high school in Baltimore County recently as parents and community activists raise the alarm on children's safety.  Cell phone video captured by a bystander shows two groups of students swinging wildly at each other in the hallways of Lansdowne High School.  Lansdowne High School educates about 1,345 students in Baltimore County, Maryland.  (Google Maps) The school's principal tried to break up the altercation and was attacked, according to Fox 45. "How can our kids learn when they're in this fight or flight mode? We wonder why the grades and proficiency levels are down so low because how can these kids learn when they're surrounded by violence," Darren Badillo, a Baltimore County Parent and Student Coalition member, told the local news outlet.  Testing has shown that many students in Baltimore are falling behind.

Baltimore prosecutors have dropped all charges against Adnan Syed, the man whose conviction on murder charges was chronicled in the hit podcast Serial.

Adnan Syed is a free man!

 who was convicted in February 2000 for murdering his ex-girlfriend. Officials on Wednesday requested another trial and said new evidence — including the existence of two potential alternative suspects — casts doubt on Syed's prior conviction.

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shot her husband after children she looked after told her that he had been molesting them.Shanteari Weems allegedly shot her husband and threatened to shoot herself at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington D.C.After a standoff with police at the luxury hotel in the US capital, Weems alleged to police that her husband is "a child molester."READ MORE: Estate full of violence and chaos has locals saying it's 'worst place on Earth'The 50-year-old told them that children at her daycare business alerted her to the alleged molestation, according to affidavit reports.The victim, whom Weems has been married to for five years, was shot twice and is in critical condition, the US documents state.Weems is the owner of Lil Kidz Kastle Daycare Center in Owings Mills in Baltimore County, Maryland.The couple was reportedly barricaded inside the room at the luxury hotel for about 30 minutes on Thursday, July 21.For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking here.When police finally got inside after a standoff they found two guns in the room, along with letters Weems wrote apologising to the children, saying she didn't know what was going on at the day care.Baltimore County Police said the daycare centre is closed as their investigation continues.Weems was arrested and is charged with assault with intent to kill.Baltimore County police said they are monitoring the case in D.C.

Funnier Than Fiction: Real Hot Girl Sh*t, presented in Studio K of the REACH, includes Rabia Chaudry, bestselling author of Adnan’s Story and executive producer of HBO’s The Case Against Adnan Syed, sharing her side of the story of a 1999 Baltimore County murder that got amplified in 2014 through the popular Serial podcast.Another standout is the mononymous Meshelle, self-styled as “the Indie-Mom of Comedy,” as seen on Martin Lawrence Presents The First Amendment Stand Up on STARz and Search for the Funniest Mom in America 3 on Nickelodeon.Also taking the stage is wife and mother Gabby Shea, the “Best Storyteller in Philly” Marjorie Winther, the 2022 Moth StorySLAM Champion Ansa Edim, therapist and DC Writers’ Salon lead Ali Cherry, and Shabnam Aslam, a second-generation Iranian-Pakistani-American passionate about her work grounded in humanitarianism, human rights, and empathetic actions.Friday, March 18, at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $25.

A Maryland man with Biden campaign signs on his yard has been charged with firing a shotgun at two men who honked the horn as they drove past his house in a pickup displaying a large Trump campaign sign. Baltimore County police said they responded to the incident Saturday afternoon in Kingsville and arrested Douglas Kuhn, 50, on multiple counts of assault.

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