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    A redesigned $20 bill featuring Harriet Tubman is expected to be released in 2030.
    Harriet Tubman will appear on U.S. currency in 2024. It’s not the $20 bill.
    The U.S. Mint will feature Maryland's own Harriet Tubman on three commemorative coins this year.
    A house for sale in Baltimore, Maryland.
    Maryland property values up 23%, largest jump in a decade
    Since the 2021 reassessment, residential values increased on average by 25.6% and commercial properties saw an average jump of 17.6%, according to state data released Friday.
    Pocomoke High School's La'Tier Evans is Worcester County’s only Black secondary math teacher.
    Black teachers are leaving. How can Maryland schools get them to stay?
    Research has shown Black students are more likely to graduate and go to college if they have a Black teacher, yet thousands don’t have one at all.
    Dr. Ron Elfenbein, right, appeared with then-Gov. Larry Hogan, middle, at a ribbon-cutting event for the COVID testing operation at BWI Airport on Aug. 24, 2021.
    Judge reverses jury conviction of Maryland doctor for millions in health care fraud
    A federal judge took the unusual step of reversing a jury’s guilty verdict against a Maryland doctor for health care fraud.
    Richard Oloizia poses for a portrait, left hand in his pocket, in front of the brick front entrance of Tudor Arms Apartments.
    A 2022 law required HOAs to assess maintenance needs. Now it’s time to pay up.
    The law could force lower-income owners into delinquency and out of their homes. In worst-case scenarios, the requirements could make it more difficult to buy and sell properties and cause property values to tumble.
    The Block Island Wind Farm off the coast of Block Island, Rhode Island, is pictured on June 13, 2017.
    Biden Administration’s scaled-back lease proposal for offshore wind projects prompts questions, criticism
    The Biden administration’s latest lease offering for offshore wind projects doesn’t allocate adequate acreage for Maryland and other mid-Atlantic states to achieve their legally binding emissions reduction and clean energy targets, industry groups and environmental advocates say.
    Maryland Department of Transportation chief archaeologist Julie Schablitsky sorts through some of the finds at the Ben Ross cabin site.
    Sea-level rise threatens efforts to dig into Harriet Tubman’s past in Eastern Maryland
    Once-fertile soil has given way to wetlands plants and salt patches, imperiling a search for the exact location of the cabin where Harriet Tubman’s father lived and taught her in Eastern Maryland.
    Illustration of food items set on a holiday table.
    How the Black diaspora will influence your holiday meal
    When you sit down to a holiday meal this season — particularly in Maryland — there’s a good chance you’ll be eating at least one dish invented or inspired by the Black diaspora.
    At Bethlehem Methodist Episcopal Church on Taylor’s Island, an MDOT sign notes that it was the oldest Methodist Episcopal Church in Dorchester County. Left unsaid is anything about the church that stood behind Bethlehem for decades, until it burned down, nor the Black cemetery still there.
    Maryland has hundreds of historical markers. Many don’t tell the whole story.
    Maryland roads include more than 700 historic markers commemorating famous battles and buildings. Some, like the one introducing Kent Island to motorists, hearken back to the years before Catholic settlers even founded the colony in 1634. Others, like the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory dedicated on Solomons Island in 1925, are more recent.
    Turkey on a scale with money.
    This is the best strategy to save money shopping for Thanksgiving dinner
    Simply put, if you’re willing to do a little extra legwork, there is money to be saved on Thanksgiving dinner.
    The Bay Bridge Run on Sunday started with temperatures in the low 40s, with a brisk breeze atop the Chesapeake Bay Bridge that made it feel colder. It was still a sold-out crowd of participants.
    200 feet above the Chesapeake Bay, the future of the bridge is clear
    Given the chance Sunday, I joined a record-breaking 18,000 others to walk and run across the 4.3-mile eastbound span of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. I thought a lot about the future of Maryland’s defining engineering feat.
    In this Jan. 28, 2019, file photo, Jennell Black, mother of Anton Black, looks at a collection of her son's belongings at her home in Greensboro, Md. Relatives of Anton Black, a 19-year-old Black man who died during a struggle with police officers on Maryland's Eastern Shore, have reached a $5 million partial settlement of their wrongful death lawsuit, an agreement that also requires improvements in police training and policies, family attorneys announced Monday, Aug. 8, 2022.
    Maryland officials agree to reform autopsy process after Anton Black’s in-custody death
    The state has agreed to adopt a policy that explicitly addresses how medical examiners handle in-custody deaths. It would apply to all deaths involving law enforcement restraint, including those that occur in jails, prisons and juvenile facilities.
    Scientists have learned a lot about the annual movements of dolphins in the Chesapeake Bay in recent years thanks to an app created by Chesapeake Dolphin Watch. The dolphins move up the bay in late spring, then head back out to sea by late fall.
    A sign the Chesapeake Bay is getting slightly healthier? Dolphins are returning.
    An app created by the University of Maryland's Center for Environmental Science allows people to track dolphin sightings, providing insight into the prevalence and behavior of dolphins in the Chesapeake Bay.
    Credit: WJZ-TV
    Tropical Storm Ophelia hits Ocean City with heavy rain and flood waters
    The storm is expected to bring high winds of up to 50 mph and heavy bands of rain to Maryland.
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    Maryland among 16 states with underfunded historically Black land-grant universities, Biden administration says
    Historically Black land-grant universities in Tennessee and 15 other states have missed out on $12.6 billion in funding over the last three decades, according to the Biden administration.
    Turbines that are part of Constellation Energy's Criterion Wind Project stand along the ridge of Backbone Mountain on August 23, 2022 near Oakland, Maryland.
    Moore, northeast governors warn Biden that wind projects need federal help
    President Joe Biden can take three steps — on tax credits, revenue sharing and permits — to help the nascent wind industry deal with challenges like inflation, supply chain and other issues, according to the letter Wednesday from Gov. Wes Moore and the governors of New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
    The only thing better than a freshly picked Eastern Shore peach has to be the peach pastry from P. Bordier, a new arrival to Easton from Bluepoint Hospitality Group.
    The Dish: Where to eat on the Eastern Shore (and no, not just crabs)
    Easton, Maryland is quickly becoming a foodie capital. We decided to check out its restaurants for ourselves.
    Tyler Mailloux, 23, leaves Worchester County Courthouse in Snow Hill, MD on August 18, 2023. Mailloux was charged with 17 counts in the deadly hit-and-run of 14-year-old Gavin Knupp, who was struck on a road outside Ocean City on July 11, 2022.
    Judge dismisses all charges against man accused in deadly hit-and-run of Gavin Knupp outside Ocean City
    Judge Brett W. Wilson said prosecutors erred in filing the case against Tyler Mailloux in Worcester County Circuit Court instead of the District Court of Maryland. The Worcester County state’s attorney said the state was "filing an immediate appeal" and would await a ruling by the appellate court.
    Many local businesses, some recognizable by tourists, have put slogans of support for Gavin Knupp.
    Man charged in deadly hit-and-run of Gavin Knupp outside Ocean City wants trial moved
    In motion for change of venue, Tyler Mailloux’s attorney wrote that his client cannot receive a fair and impartial trial unless the case is moved out of Worcester County.
    Amber Duckett sits under her Neso tent on the beach at Ocean City on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023. She admitted that as she and her partner were setting it up, they felt a little embarrassed by how much space it took up for just the two of them.
    A win for Big Umbrella: Ocean City may take up ban on large shade devices on its beaches
    The hypothetical ban could be a boon to Big Umbrella and a blow to the Beach Shade Industrial Complex.
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