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18-year-old shot and killed in Bywater neighborhood of Annapolis
The shooting happened on the same block of the Bywater neighborhood where, on July 27, another fatal shooting occurred.
An Annapolis police officer walks past the parking lot of the Boys and Girls Club in the Bywater neighborhood after an 18-year-old Glen Burnie man was shot to death in a courtyard next door on Friday, Sept. 8.
Naval Academy alumni groups hope move to stylish new digs outside Yard signals new era
Leaders of the Naval Academy Alumni Association and Foundation hope the opening of the Fleugel Alumni Center proves to be a watershed moment for both financial support of the academy and services to graduates.
Jeff Webb, CEO of the Naval Academy Alumni Association & Foundation stands in the main stairwell of the new Fluegel Alumni Center with, left, Executive Vice Presidents Thomas Grady and, right, Bob O'Connor.
7 things to do in the next 7 days
You can watch the Naval Academy Midshipmen try to change their fortunes in a home opener against Wagner College, catch some legendary Irish music or give blood in memory of a local hero. Here are seven great ideas for things to do in Annapolis.
Navy players salute their supporters following the Aer Lingus College Football Classic game between Notre Dame and Navy at Aviva Stadium on Aug. 26, 2023 in Dublin, Ireland. The Midshipmen face Wagner College in their home opener on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023.
If gun violence is a disease, Annapolis is about to get its shot
This fall, the Anne Arundel County Department of Health and the city of Annapolis will select one neighborhood and one nonprofit for its first Cure Violence program. The goal is to end the tragedy of deaths like Robert Clark's.
Eastport Terrace is one of several apartment and townhouse being considered for a gun violence prevention program in Annapolis..
Is September summer or fall ... and other urgent questions
September has always been a difficult month to identify with one season. Is it summer or fall? The beginning or the end?
Is September fall or summer, the beginning or the end?
7 things to do in Annapolis in the next 7 days
“Pops in the Park” on Sunday tops the weekend, but there’s more than good music to enjoy through Sept. 6.
The Annapolis Symphony Orchestra returns to Quiet Waters Park on Sunday, Sept. 3 for its annual Pops in the Park concert.
On anniversary of March on Washington, Anne Arundel County honors its own trailblazer
The day Sarah E. Carter broke the color barrier in Anne Arundel County nearly a half-century ago, she said she recognized the significance of her achievement. On Monday, Anne Arundel County finally honored it as well.
In 1974, Sarah E. Carter ran for Anne Arundel County Council. She beat the Democratic slate candidate in the September primary and then a Republican in November.
As Maryland public schools start fall classes, should we trust them?
Turning your children over to someone else requires trust. You put your kids on the bus for the first day of kindergarten or watch them drive off for the start of senior year and believe they’ll come home safe and ever-so-slightly better educated. Yet, as school starts next week for most Maryland students, it’s no longer a given that parents have that trust.
Annapolis High School, the third school to carry the name, is on Ribs Road just outside city limits.
7 things to do in Annapolis in the next 7 days
You could join the cinematic chase for a great white shark, help open the Maryland Renaissance Festival or mark the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington. It’s a crazy busy week in Annapolis, here are some tips on the best events through Aug. 30.
A charioteer performs at the Maryland Renaissance Festival tournament grounds in Crownsville. The annual fair runs from Aug. 26 though Oct. 22 this year.
‘I don’t care if they call it flower, I say bud.’ Tales from cannabis shopping in Annapolis
I tried out the three Annapolis pot dispensaries over the weekend, bringing home enough cannabis — in edibles, pre-rolled joints, and loose in a little glass jar like the one for my wife’s expensive moisturizer — to float me for the foreseeable future.
Panacea Wellness is one of three Annapolis area cannabis dispensaries.
Get ready to rumble: Noise control advocates gain seats on BWI advisory commission
For the first time, community members who want to address the challenges posed by airplane noise and traffic are getting seats on the Maryland Aviation Commission, an appointed body that helps govern BWI.
The Maryland Aviation Administration provides an interactive site that tracks aircraft flying around BWI Marshall Airport. It also allows anyone to file a noise complaint and follow readings at the airport's permanent noise monitors.
Naval Academy should adapt traditions, add training to reverse spike in sexual misconduct, report says
The spike in sexual assaults at service academies was worst in Annapolis, where 23% of female midshipmen experienced unwanted sexual contact and sexual harassment. The causes are both unique to the Naval Academy and common to all college freshmen.
Naval Academy upper-class midshipmen take an oath as they prepare to lead plebes through their first summer.  A new Pentagon report found that better training and support for peer leaders may help reduce sexual assaults at the service academies.
7 things to do in Annapolis in the next 7 days
Spend the coming week in Annapolis and you could judge crab soup at the Maryland Seafood Festival, take in the Annapolis Chamber Music Festival, or get your dog wet to support the SPCA at the annual Puppy Plunge. There’s something fun every day.
The Crab Soup Cook-off is a popular event at the Maryland Seafood Festival, which returns to Annapolis City Dock on Saturday.
My kids’ elementary school is a dusty pile of rubble. That’s progress, I guess.
I’ve watched with a sense of loss this summer as Hillsmere Elementary School dissolved into a dusty pile of brick-and-concrete rubble, bent-steel framing and broken rebar.
All that's left of old Hillsmere Elementary School in Annapolis is the sign, as work continues on shifting students and staff to a new building later this month.
A few words, buried deep in the Pentagon budget, could change Annapolis forever
Language in the Pentagon spending bill working its way through Congress would require the Joint Spectrum Center to finally move from the old David Taylor Research Center, clearing the way for the largest waterfront development in Annapolis history
The Joint Spectrum Center, a Department of Defense Agency that researches military uses of the electromagnetic spectrum, would have to move from it's site on the Severn River if an amendment to the proposed defense budget passes.
7 things to do in Annapolis in 7 days
You could see a one-woman show by a new Annapolis theater company, play some serious pickleball at the mall, or snag one of the few remaining seats for the final performance of Melissa Ethridge’s summer concert tour. There's lots to do in the week ahead.
Joan Smith stars in the one woman show, "Grounded" at Maryland Hall in Annapolis through Aug. 20.
Grandpa, what did you do during the Trump wars?
It feels as if we’ve all been living in Donald Trump’s head since the day he came down that golden escalator at Trump Tower to announce a run for the White House in 2015. If he sees it as a war, maybe it is one.
Gramps, tell me what did you do in the Trump wars?
BWI’s new bathrooms are up for a national award. I went for a test flush.
The updated bathrooms at BWI are up for a finalist in the Cintas Corp.’s America’s Best Restroom competition, but I wanted to judge for myself.
The new bathrooms at BWI Thurgood Marshall and bright and pretty.
7 things to do in Annapolis in the next week
Crabs, music, art and more. What’s not to love about the first week of August in Annapolis?
Annapolis Rotary Club volunteers run the annual crab feast each year, an event billed as the largest in the world.
Why would anyone sail the oceans by themselves? It’s complicated.
As the Chesapeake sailing community follows the search for missing Baltimore sailor Don Lawson in the Pacific Ocean, there are probably more than a few people looking at what he was trying to do — set a world record for solo circumnavigation — and wonder, why would anyone do that?
Solo sailor Peter Gibbons-Neff aboard Terminal Leave during a sail between France and the Azores as he prepares for the Mini Transat, a 4,000 nautical mile solo ocean race across the Atlantic Ocean.
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