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From established stars who still have upside to unheralded pieces that still need to showcase what they can do, here’s an early look at who might hold the keys to 2024 for the Ravens.

Baltimore entrepreneur Nupur Parekh Flynn’s annoyance with her purse led to an invention that celebrities at the Grammys — and soon the Oscars — are taking home with them.

It is the middle of winter, but many parents are already thinking about summer because it’s camp sign-up time. One Banner reporter and mother of three talks about the stresses of signing up.

With a tightening salary cap, it might feel like the Ravens’ Super Bowl window could be narrowing and the front office should use draft capital on win-now moves. But it's more likely that Baltimore uses its picks, trying to keep landing impact players it can develop from within.

One year of Burnes at $15.6 million, provided he’s healthy, is the definition of value, especially when he’s being added to a rotation that already features emerging stars Kyle Bradish and Grayson Rodriguez.

The stardom of college basketball's best scorer is selling out arenas and drawing big ratings. The struggling Terps will get their moment in the spotlight, but if they want to play giant killer they'll have to do it as a team.

After the pain of losing the AFC championship, there are Baltimore fans with a lot of molten takes. Let's poor cold water on them.

Paul Alexander’s “Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last Year” focuses on the singer’s genius, not just her tragedies.

Mike Elias has built the Orioles around the idea that the team could never spend as much as its peers. What happens if that’s no longer the case?

Extensions for players and staff, a commitment to a bigger payroll and settling the Camden Yards lease through 2053 should be top priorities for the new group led by David Rubenstein.

State Sens. Sarah Elfreth and Clarence Lam, along with Dels. Mark Chang, Terri Hill and Mike Rogers, all started steps ahead of the rest of the field after congressman John Sarbanes’ surprise retirement announcement in October.

For those upset about "Barbie" Oscar snubs, let's remember to focus on other notable achievements (and nominations).

The Ravens’ mistakes in the AFC championship were borne of their desperate desire to win. With stars and coaches possibly moving this offseason, it was a devastating fumble of one of the franchise’s best opportunities at a Super Bowl.

The purple blanket of fandom spreading over the city is putting Baltimore in its best light, a far cry from the national narratives that focus only on the city’s problems.

From Everett, Massachusetts, to Conway, South Carolina, to Baltimore, Isaiah Likely has followed a familiar pattern. The gifted young tight end is overlooked until suddenly he isn’t. Then his teams just keep winning.

Now that a plan for a new sculpture has been dumped, what should go in Westgate Circle — a boundary point between downtown Annapolis and parts of the city unofficially known as the rest of Annapolis? Here, then, are five ideas, all on the theme of Unity.

The talented quarterbacks find themselves on much more even footing after Jackson started the head-to-head rivalry with three straight losses.

The world is focusing on Taylor Swift at the next Ravens game. But Baltimoreans’ eyes are on the real prize.

Rep. Andy Harris, Maryland’s lone Republican in Congress, must have hoped no one would fact check his Ocean City disinformation event about wind turbines.

Swift, who is expected to make an appearance at M&T Bank Stadium for Ravens-Chiefs, is proving to a new wave of football fans that there’s nothing wrong with liking the sport.