Eligibility for Carroll County coronavirus relief funding expanded to more...
More businesses and nonprofits will be eligible for coronavirus relief funding from Carroll County after the commissioners approved expanding the program.
View ArticleBaltimore-area hospitals begin to ease visitor restrictions amid coronavirus
Hospitals still bar most visitors during the pandemic but start to make some exceptions.
View ArticleMaryland confirms 414 new coronavirus infections, fewest since July 6
Maryland’s count of new coronavirus cases Wednesday was 414, meaning the state has now confirmed 101,649 infections of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. It marks the lowest number of daily new...
View ArticleBWI Marshall Airport is seeing a gradual increase in passengers, but remains...
BWI Marshall Airport, which was nearly empty this spring as most travelers canceled trips due to the coronavirus pandemic, is seeing passenger volumes slowly pick back up.
View ArticleCoronavirus metrics are falling in Anne Arundel County but food needs are...
Anne Arundel County has seen falling unemployment claims and improving metrics for coronavirus infections, but food needs across the county have continued to climb as the food bank gives out more than...
View ArticleHoward County General Hospital to continue free coronavirus testing at places...
Howard County General Hospital will continue to offer free coronavirus testing at places of worship in the county through October.
View ArticleReconfigured Ravens tight end room remains a joyous place | NOTES
The Ravens broke up one of their happiest, most stable units when they traded tight end Hayden Hurst in the offseason. But with three players competing to fill Hurst's spot behind Mark Andrews and Nick...
View ArticleAnne Arundel announces ballot drop boxes, early voting centers ahead of...
Anne Arundel County voters will have several ways to cast their ballot in the upcoming November general election —more than two dozen ballot drop boxes, 28 large voting centers and seven early voting...
View Article‘Years of meetings’ still ahead for proposed mixed-use development off...
There is still much more work to be done before a proposed multi-lot development off Plumtree Road between routes 24 and 924 near Bel Air begins to to take shape. The proposed development would add 205...
View ArticleBaltimore County election officials urge voting by mail, plan to request 31...
Voters in Baltimore County will likely be able to cast their ballots at 31 voting centers come Election Day, but the director of elections is pressing residents to vote by mail instead.
View Article‘Forever Joseph’: Baltimore gas explosion victim remembered for positivity,...
Mourners remembered Baltimore gas explosion victim Joseph Graham Jr. for his entrepreneurial spirit and happy-go-lucky character.
View ArticleObservations from Ravens’ third day of padded practice: Intensity starts to...
The Ravens’ third day of padded practice began underneath dreary skies and light rain at the Owings Mills facility, but the intensity of the two-hour session was its liveliest to date.
View ArticleOrioles hurt by Randal Grichuk again in 5-2 loss to Blue Jays, suffer...
Randal Grichuk, who homered both Monday and Tuesday, had two more blasts Wednesday afternoon at Camden Yards to lift the Blue Jays to a 5-2 victory and three-game sweep of the Orioles.
View ArticleMaryland county executives, Baltimore mayor ask state for more contact...
The leaders of six Baltimore-area counties sent a letter to the Maryland Department of Health seeking more information about contact tracing.
View ArticleCol. Kim Ward, for decades the highest-ranking female officer in Baltimore...
Col. Mary Kim Ward, an innovative career Baltimore County Police officer who rose through the ranks to become for many years the highest-ranking female officer in department history, died Aug. 7 of...
View ArticleThings to do in Baltimore and online August 21-27
The novel coronavirus has made most gatherings impossible or, at the very least, ill-advised. Consider these gatherings, both virtual and socially distanced outdoors, if you’re itching for some kind of...
View ArticleWith 6 new COVID-19 cases, Carroll County seeing low weekly total so far
With six newly confirmed COVID-19 cases announced Wednesday, the Carroll County Health Department is encouraged by a recent downward trend but carefully watching to see if it will continue.
View ArticleVoting rights advocates sue Postal Service, arguing it’s left people with...
The National Urban League and two leading voting rights advocacy groups have sued the U.S. Postal Service and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy in Maryland.
View ArticleMaryland vote counting for November election to begin Oct. 1 in anticipation...
Maryland is going to get a jump on counting what’s expected to be hundreds of thousands of ballots coming by mail for the Nov. 3 election. The state elections board decided Wednesday that tabulation of...
View ArticleBaltimore officials ask for patience as frustrations over delayed trash,...
Baltimore Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young says he understands that people are frustrated by mounting piles of garbage in their neighborhoods as trash collectors repeatedly miss pickups. His own neighbors...
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