Residents of Poppleton in West Baltimore are challenging the city’s taking of their homes through eminent domain in a civil rights lawsuit filed Tuesday. The city’s 2006 agreement for New York-based ...

Mike Poppleton, a Fayetteville-Manlius grad, visits the Carrier Dome to take on his hometown team in an opposing jersey. (Photo by Johns Hopkins Athletic Department) It will be a bittersweet ...

For the better part of two decades, since Baltimore leaders signed away the rights to a 14-acre swath of West Baltimore beneath their homes, the residents of Poppleton have gotten used to waiting.

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When Jim Griffin first saw Poppleton, the developer knew investing in the West Baltimore neighborhood was a gamble. If he fixed up a vacant house, would anyone buy it? Most of the homes in his target ...