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    BALTIMORE, MD - MAY 31:  Benches clear after Coly Mayo #16 of the Baltimore Orioles and Lenyn Sosa #50 of the Chicago White Sox exchange pushes after a run down in the fourth inning during a baseball game at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on May 31, 2025 in Baltimore, Maryland.  (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)
    For relievers at Camden Yards, a benches-clearing brawl is both awkward and hilarious
    At Camden Yards, the home and away bullpens are stacked together in straightaway center field. The relievers from either team use the same staircase to join the fracas.
    Baltimore Orioles fan Solomon Baker, 8, uses a misting station to cool off at his first-ever game.
    Orioles players, fans and staffers find ways to beat the heat
    Temperatures soared to 100 degrees Monday night, making it the hottest first pitch this season
    In this image provided by the White House, President Donald Trump, right, and Vice President JD Vance sit in the Situation Room, Saturday, June 21, 2025, at the White House in Washington.
    Supreme Court allows Trump to restart swift deportation of migrants away from their home countries
    The court’s majority did not detail its reasoning in the brief order, as is typical on its emergency docket. All three liberal justices dissented.
    A sign protesting the Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project power line stands in a yard in Parkton, on Friday, Dec. 13, 2024.
    Judge allows company to survey route for contentious Maryland power line
    The proposed Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project would cross some 400 different properties across the three counties.
    Local residents relax inside the lobby of the Zeta Center for Healthy and Active Aging, one of the Baltimore City Health Department’s cooling centers, in northwest Baltimore on Monday.
    A heat dome is bringing dangerous temps to Maryland. Here’s what to know.
    A strong ridge of high pressure is creating “very warm” air mass over the region, a phenomenon known as a heat dome.
    Luis Guevara played with the Chesapeake Baysox for a short while in 2025.
    ‘A kid with dreams:’ Friends grieve the death of Orioles minor leaguer Luis Guevara
    Guevara’s death stunned his hometown in Venezuela as friends and family reckoned with the loss of the light-hearted, hardworking ballplayer, according to four players who knew him.
    Iran's army commander-in-chief Gen. Amir Hatami, center, accompanied by high ranked army commanders, speaks in a video call with top commanders of the army, in Zolfaghar central headquarters, Iran.
    Iran launches missile attacks on US bases in Qatar and Iraq
    Iran announced on state television that it had attacked American forces stationed at Qatar’s Al Udeid Air Base.
    Kilmar Abrego Garcia and one of his children in an undated photo provided by CASA, an immigrant advocacy organization, in April 2025.
    Judge orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release from jail before trial, but ICE plans to detain him
    The mistaken deportation of Abrego Garcia, a citizen of El Salvador who was living in Maryland, has become a flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
    Artist Tony Shore, with assistance from street artist Gaia, works on his installation, “Aurora,” outside of the old Gatsby's nightclub in the Station North neighborhood of Baltimore. The installation is part of “Inviting the Light,” a public arts project that uses features illuminated visual art.
    Letter: Art or not, Baltimore needs less light pollution, not more
    Katharine Rylaarsdam of Baltimore says the planned “Inviting the Light” public art project will increase harmful light pollution.
    Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman faces a monthlong absence, the longest of his major league career.
    Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman likely out until after All-Star break
    The 27-year-old, who has thus far avoided any lengthy absence, is one of several Orioles to suffer injury setbacks this year.
    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine speak during a news conference at the Pentagon in Washington.
    The Latest: Hegseth says US military used decoys and deception in Iran attack
    The secretary of defense said it was important to note that U.S. strikes did not target Iranian troops or the Iranian people.
    New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is placed under arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and FBI agents outside federal immigration court on Tuesday, June 17, 2025, in New York.
    Letter: Detention of elected officials by ICE should alarm everyone
    Sarah Pan of Ellicott City says the detentions of elected officials by ICE should alarm everyone.
    President Donald Trump speaks from the East Room of the White House as seen on a television monitor in the James Brady Press Briefing Room, in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, June 21, 2025, after the U.S. military struck three sites in Iran.
    Trump’s bombing of Iran splits Maryland delegation along party lines
    Maryland lawmakers’ responses to President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Iranian nuclear sites fell along party lines.
    President Donald Trump speaks from the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, June 21, 2025, after the U.S. military struck three Iranian nuclear and military sites, directly joining Israel's effort to decapitate the country's nuclear program, as Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listen.
    Trump says Iran’s key nuclear sites were ‘completely and fully obliterated’ by U.S. strikes
    The U.S. military struck three sites in Iran early Sunday, directly joining Israel ’s war aimed at decapitating the country’s nuclear program in a risky gambit to weaken a longtime foe amid Tehran’s threat of reprisals that could spark a wider regional conflict.
    County Executive Steuart Pittman, Ann Arundel department of Health and the Ann Arundel County Public library announce a pilot program to help reduce gun-related incidents and deaths on April 13, 2023.
    Steuart Pittman on leading Maryland Democrats into the 2026 elections
    Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman will take over as Democrats across the nation assess their priorities.
    Dr. Meena Seshamani, who took over as state health secretary in April, will need to replace her second deputy after her Medicaid director, Ryan Moran, said he was leaving.
    Top state health department official to leave as Maryland braces for cuts
    Ryan Moran, Maryland Medicaid director, becomes the second deputy under the new health secretary to head for the exit, just as Congress debates big cuts.
    Newly signed Ravens cornerback Jaire Alexander (center) played 361 defensive snaps in seven games in 2024, limited by injuries.
    What are the Ravens getting in Jaire Alexander? Here’s what his 2024 film showed.
    Alexander has dealt with several injuries over the past two seasons, and they’ve affected more than just his coverage ability.
    Harbor jumpers leap into the waters of Fells Point during the Harbor Splash 2024 event on 6/23/24 in Baltimore, MD.
    Is Baltimore’s harbor really clean enough for swimming? Environmentalists disagree.
    Environmentalists discuss the question in decidedly different ways.
    Waterlogged cars sit in the flooded parking lot of Westernport Elementary School after a catastrophic storm hit the area on Tuesday.
    Alas, poor FEMA. We knew you well.
    President Donald Trump plans to phase out FEMA after this year’s hurricane season. In the future, if you want help after a disaster, you’ll have to call him. How do you think that’s going to go?
    A flood watch has been issued for part of the Baltimore region on Thursday.
    Severe storms Thursday bring damaging winds, power outages
    The National Weather Service said there’s a threat of severe weather Thursday, including the possibility of damaging winds, large hail and an isolated tornado.
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