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    Baltimore Ravens safety Kyle Hamilton (14) celebrates after recovering a fumble in a game against the Buffalo Bills at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore on Sunday, September 29, 2024.
    Ravens draft winners and losers: Where do Kyle Hamilton, Justin Tucker stand after busy weekend?
    No one made as many headlines during the NFL draft as Shedeur Sanders, but the Ravens at least gave it a shot.
    Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott delivers his 2025 State of the City address earlier this month.
    Letter: Mayor Scott must protect Baltimore homeowners from tax sale
    Megan Good, an Equal Justice Works Fellow with Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service, says Mayor Brandon Scott should remove owner-occupied homes from the upcoming tax sale.
    Safety Malaki Starks won’t turn 22 until November, and the Ravens can afford to be patient with his development.
    Inside Malaki Starks’ ‘appealing’ talent: Here’s what first-round pick can do for Ravens’ defense
    “It’s very evident that not a lot of people can do what Malaki Starks can do on the football field,” defensive coordinator Zach Orr said.
    Maryland lawmakers passed a bill that makes several changes to medical and geriatric parole.
    Maryland overhauls process for releasing aging and sick prisoners: ‘It’s about mercy’
    Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, this week signed a bill that make changes to medical and geriatric parole.
    A screenshot from the Chesapeake Conservancy's peregrine falcon webcam, which is watching a nest on a skyscraper in Baltimore.
    Falcons on the 33rd floor: Webcams let you get up close with nature around Maryland
    Chesapeake Conservancy, along with explore.org, launched the webcam in 2015.
    The Perdue Agribusiness factory can be seen from a neighbor’s front window in Salisbury.
    Letter: Environmental justice is urgent, not optional, for our communities
    Baltimore County Council candidate Sharonda Dillard-Huffman says recent reports, such as as toxic chemicals in Perdue’s wastewater, show that environmental justice is not optional, but urgent.
    The Ravens drafted Mike Green of Marshall despite red flags in his past.
    Eric DeCosta says Ravens ‘thoroughly’ investigated allegations against second-round pick Mike Green
    The 6-foot-3, 251-pound Green was considered a first-round talent after finishing with 17 sacks in 2024.
    The Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center in Jessup, Md. on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024.
    The state’s troubled psychiatric hospital has a new issue: Legionella bacteria
    The troubled Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center is the latest state building to test positive for Legionella, the bacteria that causes Legionnaire's disease.
    Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown joined 18 other states challenging the U.S. education department’s threats to withhold school funding.
    Maryland lawsuit challenges federal threats to withhold education funding
    Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown joined attorneys general from 18 other states to sue the Trump administration.
    Kevin Winston Jr. of Penn State, a Columbia native, is expected to be drafted on Day 2.
    As Day 2 of NFL draft approaches, watch out for these Baltimore-area prospects
    Here are nine prospects with local ties who could be drafted Friday or Saturday, including a few potential Ravens targets.
    A person becomes emotional during a press conference addressing sexual abuse in Maryland juvenile detention centers, Wednesday, March 19, 2025, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
    Maryland youth detention centers hit with 85 new sexual abuse allegations
    Eighty-five people joined a civil complaint against Maryland and the state Department of Juvenile Services over alleged sexual abuse at dozens of youth detention centers as early as 1974 to 2018, attorneys said.
    Photo collage shows close up of woman’s face in profile, her eyes look right. On right side of collage are a breast pump and baby bottle with a jury box seats in the background.
    Parents of young children will be able to defer jury duty under new state law
    Maryland's governor has signed a law allowing new mothers to be excused from jury duty for up to three years, making the policy uniform across the state.
    Anne Arundel County alcohol sales are regulated by the Board of License Commissioners, a three body panel now being changed after complaints.
    After toxic cocktail of complaints, changes are coming to Anne Arundel’s liquor board
    A state senator says he has been "flooded" with complaints about Anne Arundel's Board of License Commissioners. It prompted him to push for changes, including expanding the board's size.
    Andy Harris and Chris Van Hollen
    Letter: Sen. Chris Van Hollen is a workhorse; Rep. Andy Harris is a show horse
    Michael H.C. McDowell and Susan M. Flanigan of Chestertown write that Sen. Chris Van Hollen is a “workhorse” for his service, but lament Rep. Andy Harris as a “show horse.”
    Georgia defensive back Malaki Starks celebrates after being chosen by the Baltimore Ravens with the 27th overall pick during the first round of the NFL football draft, Thursday, April 24, 2025, in Green Bay, Wis.
    The Ravens couldn’t pass on Malaki Starks and his ‘remarkable’ football IQ
    Starks is “wired like a Raven,” according to general manager Eric DeCosta.
    Carey M. Wright, Maryland state superintendent of schools, and Josh Michael, the state school board president, released a joint statement Thursday on diversity programming in schools.
    Maryland schools won’t end diversity programs, despite Trump demands
    Thursday's statement was carefully worded and didn’t contain the strong language coming from some states that openly defied the Trump administration.
    A protest outside the Social Security Administration headquarters in Woodlawn earlier this month, as many express concerns about deep cuts to the federal workforce.
    Social Security could lose some 7,000 employees under Trump’s worker reclassification
    The Social Security Administration could lose thousands of employees under President Donald Trump's revived reclassification policy.
    This week, a Maryland U.S. District judge ruled that the Trump administration deported a Venezuelan man in violation of a court-approved settlement agreement reached following a lawsuit last year.
    Second man deported to El Salvador last month in violation of Maryland court order
    Kilmar Abrego Garcia was not the only Maryland man erroneously deported to El Salvador last month, according to court records.
    Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen speaks to the press in La Libertad, El Salvador, where he arrived regarding Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen who was living in Maryland and deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration, Wednesday, April 16, 2025.
    Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen stepped up to Trump — and into the national spotlight
    The Trump administration has so far denied a unanimous U.S Supreme Court order to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return, and the president has called Chris Van Hollen a “fake” and a “grandstander” for confronting his administration’s sweeping deportation efforts with a congressional fact-finding mission.
    WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 12: Former Special Counsel Robert Hur returns from a short break to resume his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 12, 2024 in Washington, DC. Hur investigated U.S. President Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified documents and published a final report with contentious conclusions about Biden’s memory.
    How a former Maryland U.S. attorney became key in Harvard’s legal battle
    Robert Hur is one of the two lawyers defending Harvard University against the Trump administration’s federal funding cuts.
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