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After winning two individual silvers at the World Championships, the wide-grinning, dry-humored, high-flying 20-year-old from Bowie looks bound for a huge stage with less than a year to go until Paris.

For all of the top Orioles hitters, here’s a facet of the game that they did better than all of their teammates this year.

It’s not clear how a gunman found Judge Andrew Wilkinson's Hagerstown home Friday night and shot him to death in his driveway. Maybe he followed him home, or maybe he stalked him on the Internet. But Maryland lawmakers knew this kind of violence was a threat.

Checking in on the hot takes around Week 7 after the Ravens dismantled Detroit.

Richard Curtis said last week that he regrets the fat jokes and lack of diversity in his films like “Love Actually” and “Notting Hill.” But if we’re going to talk about issues with rom-coms and representation, “He’s Just Not That Into You” should be first in line.

The Ravens can be the class of the NFL, as they showed Sunday against the Detroit Lions. But we've seen hints all along. Now Baltimore has to sustain it.

On Sunday, Suggs will join the Ravens’ Ring of Honor in a halftime ceremony. The intimidating pass rusher thinks of himself as fortunate because he got to play alongside Ray Lewis and Ed Reed for the majority of his career.

What Maryland will find as it shifts the focus of Chesapeake Bay cleanup to rivers and creeks are grassroots groups already doing the work of restoration. Sometimes they’ve had success and sometimes setbacks. But they understand what the state will face.

At some point — quite possibly this exact one the Orioles are in — trading for other clubs’ prospects with the idea that they might be contributors down the line simply stops feeling appropriate.

Jada Pinkett Smith’s hometown appearances in Baltimore are either sincere or the most spectacular pieces of performance art ever. Either way, we’re tuned in.

Orioles fans who have been to Texas Live! weigh in on what they’d like to see as state and team officials continue to discuss development.

The Orioles have a promising rotation, but you can never have enough pitching.

As the City of Annapolis begins deliberations of a massive, $88 million project to reinvent its waterfront center and save it from flooding, here are five questions likely to be a central part of the discussion.

Examining the hot takes around the Ravens from Week 6.

I held stigmas about single mothers before I became one. The statistics and truths behind the descriptor tell a much more nuanced story.

The postseason crashed and burned, but at least now the Orioles know that next time Gunnar Henderson is ready for the playoff stage.

A conversation with the sole Maryland Republican in Congress, Andy Harris, over why he's not stressed by the House leadership impasse and why he thinks the GOP's slim majority has been effective.

As exciting as the 101-win Orioles season bodes for a competitive future, the biggest questions looming over the offseason, from long-term contracts to impact free agents, are shadowed by the owner's buzz-killing comments to the New York Times.

Between two teams returning after long absences in the postseason, Texas’ mantra of “Go and take it” resonates with their approach. The Orioles’ “Soak it in” unfortunately reflects how they weren’t aggressive enough in their moves, especially at the trade deadline.

The core of the Orioles will likely remain in place, but Mike Elias and his staff have several major decisions to make.