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The superyacht Lovebug capsized last month about 12 miles south of Annapolis, just inside the West River. No matter what investigators find when the boat is refloated next week, maybe the way Lovebug and other superyachts have changed Annapolis is just as important.

At all levels of the Orioles’ farm system below Triple-A, many games will feature a starter and a second, planned pitcher who will pitch bulk innings behind him.

Former Oriole Larry Sheets “wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy” the 21-game losing streak his team endured in 1988. But his son Gavin, who plays for the White Sox, just went through the same thing.

Plus: A young, promising arm to watch in Delmarva.

M&T Bank Stadium is a place where you and 71,000 of your closest friends gather weekly to watch the Ravens over a beer. But these new exclusive spaces more like the lobby of a swanky hotel than a football stadium.

I went sailing on Saturday. Not really a surprising thing. I live in Annapolis. But August is the Chesapeake Bay’s unexpected month — the time of year when things turn out exactly as you expect until they do not.

For far too long, I’ve been a hypocrite, expecting action and change from others with no effort of my own.

The last time the Orioles won a game they were trailing after six innings was May 25.

That stretch from late May to mid-June when the bad news came quickly on so many elbow injuries will be hard to top in terms of season-defining stretches for these Orioles. It feels like we just had another, though.

Follow along as we recap the Apple TV+ series “Lady in the Lake,” based on the book by Laura Lippman and starring Natalie Portman and Baltimore native Moses Ingram.

Two Annapolis police officers who are union representatives used department tech to track a police major's vehicle as he worked from home, prompting police Chief Ed Jackson to suspend them. The officers have returned to work, but the incident lies at the heart of a planned no-confidence vote.

Were the Olympic opening ceremonies intentionally offensive or just misunderstood? Lingering on that question misses the spirit of the Games and what makes them special.

The Orioles opted for depth additions, focused on players who’ve shown promise but struggled lately. That’s the same old playbook.

It might not feel good to hear, but these are the types of acquisitions this team needed. There’s not much that can raise its ceiling, given the stars up and down the lineup and the two pitchers atop its rotation. It needed its floor to be raised.

Plus, what Austin Hays really meant to the team and Adley Rutschman’s struggles.

To help me make sense of Olympic equestrian events and allegations of animal cruelty, I went to Maryland’s top elected horseman — Steuart Pittman.

They probably couldn’t have drawn up a more ideal set of trades if they tried.

Republican Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance’s comments about women who don’t have children insults their right to make choices about their own lives.

The O’s are 12-16 in their last 28 games, a slump that should indicate they need more help from the front office, not less.

A clash between Anne Arundel County Orphans Court judges and the conviction of a register of wills on a misconduct charge underscore the need to reform the system that presides over the administration of estates.