Current view of the aurora from Queenstown, MD – can see with naked eye and short long exposures @capitalweather @wbaltv11 @washingtonpost pic.twitter.com/yJgSjwpo73

— Ryan Booth (@TheRyanBooth) November 12, 2025

The storms, caused by the sun expelling bursts of energy known as coronal mass ejections, created auroras visible across the Northern United States and potentially as far south as Alabama.

But the storms could also disrupt radio and GPS communications.

PHOTOS: Northern Lights visible in Maryland!
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SEE FULL GALLERY: https://t.co/CaVAXDxGkN pic.twitter.com/GLJ8w0kBq5

— FOX Baltimore (@FOXBaltimore) November 12, 2025

The potential for interruptions in services did not stop locals from across the DMV region from snapping photos of the luminous sky, displaying vibrant shades of reds, blues and greens.

According to the Space Weather Prediction Center, peak geomagnetic conditions were reached Tuesday night around 8:20 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

The U.S. may have another chance to view the aurora, including in Maryland, according to the space weather forecast, which has issued a geomagnetic storm watch for Wednesday.

Olney, MD – The aurora appeared before the clouds rolled in, captured at 8:20 PM EST tonight from Olney Manor Recreational Park. @capitalweather #northernlights #aurora #MdWx #Wx @MeteoMdWX @JustinWeather @Bopegfs pic.twitter.com/NPHO8MmLge

— MyDrone.Pro (@MyDronePro) November 12, 2025

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In a post on X Saturday evening, the MDTA announced the cancellation, citing the projected forecast during the event timeframe. There is a 45% chance of rain between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. in the bridge area, according to the National Weather Service.

Instead of the planned closures, the bridge will be open to vehicle traffic under normal conditions on Sunday.

“While we all knew this was a possibility, we never thought it would become a reality, especially after the beautiful day we had on Saturday,” wrote the event planners in a notice posted on their website.

They added that the event will not be rescheduled, and that those who registered for the race this year will receive priority and discount registration when the event opens registrations for 2026. All add-ons, including beer bands and parking passes, will be refunded, race officials said.

As for those who have already checked a bag for the morning race, organizers said they will be set up at the Anne Arundel Fairgrounds from 8 a.m. until noon for people to claim their materials.

The 10K, or 6.2 mile, race attracted over 17,000 runners from around the country and across the world for its 2024 iteration.

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According to the Prince George’s County State’s Attorney’s office, Cori Clingman pleaded guilty to three counts of negligent homicide under the influence of alcohol.

The crash, which occurred on Route 4/Pennsylvania Avenue in Upper Marlboro in July 2024, killed Jackson, 24, from Waldorf, as well as Isaiah Hazel, 23, and Anthony Lytton, Jr., 24, who were both from Upper Marlboro.

The Vikings selected Jackson in the fourth round of the 2024 NFL draft after the cornerback spent two seasons at Alabama and finished his college career at Oregon. A first-team All-Pac-12 pick by The Associated Press last season, Jackson tied for second in the conference with three interceptions and had been competing for a starting spot on the team’s defense at the time of the crash.

Clingman was indicted on 13 counts in January, including vehicular manslaughter. She will remain on home detention until her scheduled sentencing hearing on February 4, 2026.

“While today’s plea brings a measure of accountability, I know that it cannot ease the heartbreak or bring back Khyree, Isaiah, and Anthony, whose lives were lost in this devastating crash,” said State’s Attorney Jackson.

Clingman will remain on home detention until her sentencing, scheduled for Feb. 4, 2026, at 10 a.m. Each count carries a maximum penalty of five years. Prosecutors plan to recommend a 15-year sentence, with all but three years suspended.

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Fire officials said crews arrived before 2 p.m. to the 400 block of West 23rd Street and evacuated at least 23 people from nearby homes. The evacuees were brought to a community center at the Church of the Guardian Angel, where volunteers and city workers provided food, water, and masks.

Baltimore Fire Chief James Wallace said firefighters “100% saved the houses” along 23rd Street, but expected crews to continue battling the fire overnight. He did not say when residents would be able to return home.

“It was really scary,” said Mollie Bailey, who was evacuated from her home on 23rd Street.

Bailey recalled sitting upstairs when she noticed the smoke rising from the first floor of her home, and ran downstairs to find a thick haze. That prompted her to gather her belongings and run outside, where emergency workers helped guide the Remington resident to safety.

She and her neighbors congregated at the community center, a little less than a half-mile away, where members of the Greater Remington Improvement Association (GRIA) and other locals began dropping off and distributing resources like masks, food and water.

‘A pretty tight-knit neighborhood’

“Remington is a pretty tight-knit neighborhood,” said Jennifer McKenzie, the operations manager of GRIA, “and people really came together.”

McKenzie said that the center welcomed 25 people impacted by the fire, though many were able to make their way to the homes of friends and family.

Housing Commissioner Alice Kennedy told The Sun that her team at the Baltimore City Department of Housing and Community Development aided in the effort to transport residents of the 23rd street area to the community center, and would provide displaced individuals with nowhere else to go with find short-term housing and medical services.

“The community is always on the front line,” said District 12 Councilman Jermaine Jones, remarking on the quick outpouring of support from Remington residents and those in the surrounding area. “That’s what I love about Baltimore.”

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The blaze erupted in a commercial building near 23rd Street and Hampden Avenue, Baltimore City Fire Department spokesperson John Marsh said. Fire crews, Baltimore Police and the Office of Emergency Management, were pm the scene Friday.

Fire officials said they evacuated 23 people from the 400 block of West 23rd Street, a string of rowhomes leading up to the engulfed warehouse. No civilian or firefighter injuries were reported.

“All civilians are in good shape,” Baltimore City Fire Chief James Wallace said. He praised firefighters for protecting the homes, which are located roughly 50 feet from the burning warehouse.

“These men and women absolutely risked their lives, got between this warehouse and those houses in an area I estimate to be about 50 feet,” he said. “They were working around energized BGE lines. They were working through a very, very high volume of fire.”

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According to the school system, a student found the flyers, which were posted in Federal Hill near Digital Harbor High School and in Cherry Hill, and reported them to school staff. Administrators immediately notified City Schools Police, who are working with the Baltimore Police Department to investigate the incidents.

“We have no tolerance for hate and harassment on our campus or in our neighborhoods,” read the statement, which specified that the flyers did not name any city schools, and were not found on any school campuses. However school officials stated that city school administrators are worried about a potential reprisal.

The flyers in Federal Hill were posted near Cross and Light streets, a busy stop on the CityLink Silver Line where many students at Digital Harbor frequently use to get to and from school, leading locals to believe that the flyers were intended to target these teenagers.

City officials, including District 11 Councilmember Zac Blanchard, expressed outrage over the fliers, calling for a decisive response from law enforcement.

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According to Dani Lawson, the department’s Special Liaison for LGBTQIA+, Older/Vulnerable Adults, and Deaf/Hard of Hearing Communities, the board will be composed of community members, helping the department better serve LGBTQ+ and gender-diverse individuals across Baltimore.

“The LGBTQIA+ Advisory Board was created to fulfill requirements of the federally mandated Consent Decree as part of BPD’s commitment to equity, transparency, and community engagement,” wrote Lawson in a statement to The Baltimore Sun.

She said that a committee of representatives from the police department and partner agencies will select the board’s members out of a pool of applicants, and that the board will meet bimonthly to speak about policy recommendations and outreach initiatives.

The department encourages those who are interested in applying to the board to do so via an online form.

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“He never claimed credit, but trust and believe, he was a major part of why murders plummeted in Baltimore,” City Council President Zeke Cohen said, calling Mr. Barksdale a “quiet warrior.”

He died Thursday, at the age of 53. A cause of death was not disclosed. Mr. Barksdale had long struggled with heart issues, and his retirement from the police department was preceded by a lengthy period of medical leave.

A former acting police commissioner, the West Baltimore native was credited with driving down city gun violence from both the police department and City Hall. Under Mr. Barksdale’s steering of police strategy from 2007 to 2012, Baltimore saw violent crime statistics drop, with the city’s annual homicide count dipping in 2011 below the 200 mark for the first time in decades. Returning to city government in 2022 as deputy mayor for public safety, historic reductions in violence followed.

“It hit me that day that [violence] can happen to nice people, to a good guy,” he said in a 2002 interview.

“I just ignore the naysayers and stay focused,” he told the publication.

A homegrown leader, Mr. Barksdale was well regarded by the top brass and the department’s rank and file. He kept a low profile for most of his public career, preferring to work behind the scenes, though police union leaders publicly praised him for creating specialized drug and gun units and standing up for officers.

“God bless Deputy Mayor Anthony Barksdale,” Robert F. Cherry, the outspoken former president of the city’s Fraternal Order of Police lodge, said Thursday on the social media platform X. He said the department “is a better agency because of his leadership.”

Though credited for decreasing gun violence, the plainclothes violent-crime units that Barksdale had shaped drew criticism for their aggressive tactics. Some members ended up on the department’s infamous Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), an elite plainclothes unit that went rogue and became the center of a corruption scandal that saw several officers convicted of racketeering charges.

Insisting that plainclothes units helped drive down crime, Mr. Barksdale, who had retired several years prior to the GTTF scandal, stressed that oversight was key to keeping members in line.

“It doesn’t work when you’re weak,” Mr. Barksdale said in an interview at the time. “It can be nasty in that room, but there has to be accountability.”

Former Baltimore Police Maj. Neill Franklin, who met Mr. Barksdale, described his former colleague as an accepting leader who strived for input from others, including from his subordinates, and was willing to try anything to benefit the community.

“He was always willing to look at something from a different perspective,” Mr. Franklin said.

When Mr. Bealefeld retired in 2012, Barksdale took over as acting commissioner. While many at the time saw Mr. Barksdale as a shoo-in for the police commissioner role, then-Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake ultimately appointed former Oakland Police Department Chief Anthony W. Batts.

Mr. Barksdale went on medical leave before Mr. Batts assumed his post and remained on leave until retiring from the department in 2014.

Tonight, I’m heartbroken to announce the passing of Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Anthony Barksdale.

Tony was a true public servant, a good man, and my brother in the work to build a safer Baltimore. His legacy and impact will forever live on. pic.twitter.com/Cz9yCv3ZBx

— Brandon M. Scott (@MayorBMScott) November 7, 2025

The following year, Ms. Rawlings-Blake fired Mr. Batts amid a severe spike in violent crime in the tumultuous months that followed Freddie Gray’s death in police custody.

“His guidance helped shape my career and he continued to serve our city with unwavering dedication,” Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley said of Mr. Barksdale in a statement Thursday. “Baltimore is better because of him, and his impact will be felt for generations to come.”

After departing the police department, Mr. Barksdale served as Horseshoe Casino’s director of security, senior vice president of Assured Protection and contributed analysis on national law enforcement for CNN.

“Things were supposed to get better under the consent decree, right? Wrong!” wrote Mr. Barksdale in a September 2018 Tweet.

He also sharply criticized then-Police Commissioner Michael Harrison during a 2020 interview on FOX45, where the former deputy commissioner said he had “no faith in the current commissioner.”

In 2022, Mr. Scott appointed Mr. Barksdale to the position of deputy mayor of public safety, overseeing operations at the city’s police department, fire department and the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement. He publicly apologized to Harrison, who left the department in 2023.

“[We] lost a good one. He made the city a safer place,” said Del. Caylin Young, who worked with Mr. Barksdale on the Police Accountability Board.

“Baltimore is better because a boy from West Baltimore made it his mission to make it safer,” Mr. Scott said in his statement.

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Multiple officers responding to reports of gunfire on Oct. 8 are shown in the hour-long compilation encountering 55-year-old Robert Adams, who police said had barricaded himself inside a building after exchanging gunfire with officers.

The footage shows officers casing the area and establishing a perimeter, weapons drawn, as the standoff continued for about two hours, according to investigators.

Throughout the video, officers are seen arguing, shouting expletives and telling each other to “shut up.”

At one point, a woman approached a group of officers standing near a vehicle and asked what was happening.

“Get in your house,” Officer Mason Rice is heard saying in the video.

Toward the end of the footage from Officer Nicholas Cook’s body camera, he appears to see Adams, shouting that Adams had a gun, before he and several other officers fired.

Footage of the officers’ entry into the building was not included in the released compilation, but investigators said police entered soon after the shots were fired and found Adams suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene, officials said.

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The pamphlets, bearing the name of the Ku Klux Klan, were found near the intersection of Cross and Light streets and targeted so-called “juvenile thugs,” which locals believe is a reference to students at nearby Digital Harbor High School who often gather in the area near a busy CityLink Silver Line stop.

A security guard at Cross Street Market who identified himself as Troy said another guard found the flyers at around 11:30 a.m. Monday but did not say whether he made any effort to remove them or contact authorities.

Lindsey Eldridge, a spokesperson for the Baltimore Police Department, said the department is aware of the situation after being notified by a community partner but did not receive any calls for service regarding the incident.

In 2023, Mayor Brandon Scott’s office picked the blocks surrounding Digital Harbor as one of the areas to implement its Safe Passage program, which resulted in a more than 10% decrease in violent crime in that section of Federal Hill, according to Scott’s office.

“We may act crazy, but we’re all just trying to have fun,” said Niko, a 17-year-old student at Digital Harbor, hanging around the corner where the flyers were found just a day earlier, “we’re not trying to start any problems.”

He and his friends — all Black students at Digital Harbor — expressed equal parts disgust and anxiety about the flyers, saying that they surprised them and made them rethink how safe they are in the city they call home.

“I think everyone is concerned,” said District 11 City Councilman Zac Blanchard. “It’s even more awful that [it was targeted at] high school students at Digital Harbor.”

While Blanchard says he and his constituents were shocked by the incident, similar posters have made their way to Federal Hill in years past — though none since the beginning of 2020.

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