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Kyle Goon: A fencer turned a personal choice into a political crusade — and endangered transgender people everywhere
Anyone can decide not to compete in a sport for any reason. But turning it into political crusade only serves to threaten already persecuted transgender people.
A detail view while two fencers practice at the Fencing Hall ahead of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
Owings Mills mother and wife Karen Franklin described as ‘glue that held her family together’
Owings Mills mother and wife Karen Franklin is described as the "glue that held her family together".
Owings Mills mother and wife Karen Franklin is described as the "glue that held her family together". She died in a murder-suicide on Tuesday, April 1, 2025. She was 59 years old.
Chick-Fil-A test kitchen Little Blue Menu to remodel, lay off 91 people
Chick-Fil-A's viral test kitchen in College Park will lay off nearly 100 people in prepation for a remodel that begins May 1.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - MAY 06: A sign hangs outside of a Chick-fil-A restaurant on May 06, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. Chicken prices have risen sharply this year as suppliers struggle to keep up with demand, fueled in part, by the popularity of new chicken offerings from fast-food restaurants.  (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Boaters beware: One of Earth’s rarest whales was spotted off Ocean City
North Atlantic Right Whales, an endangered species on the brink of extinction, were detected east of Ocean City, and boaters must slow down to protect the whales.
FILE - A North Atlantic right whale surfaces on Cape Cod Bay, in Massachusetts, on March 27, 2023. The loss of dissolved oxygen and changes to ocean chemistry due to warming waters threatened whale and other marine mammals according to a new study.
Live coverage: Cold feet on immigration bills?
Lawmakers have until the end of next Monday to wrap up work on bills or they’ll most likely have to start over again in 2026.
Speaker of the House Adrienne A. Jones concludes business as balloons and confetti fall around her on the final day of the 2024 General Assembly Session in Annapolis.
‘Especially troubling’: A Howard County bus aide faces sex offense, assault charges
A Howard County bus attendant, contracted to serve students at the Linwood Center, was arrested and charged with two counts of assault and one count of fourth-degree sex offense this week.
A contracted bus aide in Howard County has been charged with assaulting two students from the Linwood Center, allegations school officials called "especially troubling."
Poll: Marylanders prefer voting at countywide hubs to neighborhood precincts
A Washington Post-UMD poll found support for establishing countywide voting centers.
A woman votes at a polling booth at Deer Park Elementary School in Owings Mills on Maryland’s Primary Election Day on May 14, 2024.
Baltimore woman wanted in connection to fatal shooting arrested in Ohio
Unique Thorn, 26, was arrested Thursday by U.S. Marshals in Ohio in connection to a fatal shooting in the city last month.
A Baltimore Police vehicle is seen in Fells Point on April 14, 2024.
Baltimore schools to cut tutoring and more after Trump administration backtracks on funds
Thousands of city school students will immediately be effected by the federal cuts to education.
BALTIMORE, MD - DECEMBER 5, 2024: Kindergarten students pay attention to their teacher during an English Language Arts class in KIPP Baltimore on December 5, 2024.
Baltimore election director Armstead Jones announces retirement after absences
Jones had a colorful way with words, delivering seemingly casual responses to alarming situations.
Armstead Jones, Baltimore City's elections director, speaks at the start of the canvass of mail ballots in the 2022 primary election at the city's elections warehouse.
MLB agents discuss extensions for young stars — and why the Orioles have yet to sign one
Orioles co-owner Michael J. Arougheti, left, talks with general manager Mike Elias, middle, and manager Brandon Hyde during spring training.
Top Democrats protest after reported firing of National Security Agency director
Top congressional Democrats are protesting the reported firing of Gen. Tim Haugh as director of the National Security Agency, with one lawmaker saying the decision “makes all of us less safe.”
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 25: National Security Agency Director General Timothy Haugh speaks during a Senate Committee on Intelligence Hearing on March 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. The hearing to examine worldwide threats comes a day after Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief for The Atlantic magazine was inadvertently included on a high level Trump administration Signal group chat on bombing plans in Yemen on Houthi targets.
Have a disease and hoping for a cure? That’s now at risk with federal cuts, UMB scientists say
A group of University of Maryland, Baltimore researchers led by the dean of the school of medicine, say cuts to federal funding will hamper efforts to treat and cure diseases.
Dr. Mark T. Gladwin, pictured here at the UMB’s BioPark in Baltimore in January, is the dean of the University of Maryland School of Medicine who said this week that federal funding cuts threatens work at the university to treat and cure maladies.
Is it traffic or ‘NIMBY and racist’? The fight over redevelopment in Anne Arundel
History, race and traffic collide in Anne Arundel County redevelopment bill debate.
Traffic travels on Crain Highway at Annapolis Road in Gambrills. The County Council is debating a bill that would encourage redevelopment of older commercial properties in "critical corridors," including Route 3.
T. Rowe Price just gave its CEO a huge raise to keep up with the Joneses
Robert W. Sharps, T. Rowe Price’s board chairman, president and chief executive officer, made almost $20 million last year — a 50% jump from the previous year.
The new T. Rowe Price global headquarters building is on the Harbor Point waterfront.
Matthew Anacker was a generous arborist who helped set standards across Maryland
Matthew Anacker, the owner of A&A Tree Experts in Baltimore County, died March 14 after going into cardiac arrest. He was 79.
Matthew Anacker.
Maryland-bred ‘Abbott Elementary’ star talks crab cakes and stand-up
Before headlining Magooby’s Joke House, ”Abbott Elementary” star and Silver Spring native Lisa Ann Walter talks about her Maryland roots, winning “Celebrity Jeopardy!” and more.
ABBOTT ELEMENTARY - ABC's "Abbott Elementary" stars Lisa Ann Walter as Melissa Schemmenti. (Disney/Pamela Littky)
With a finger salute, Annapolis’ big art project is still struggling
Art is about symbols. One of the crudest is a good way to explain why it’s proving so hard to fill Westgate Circle in Annapolis.
Westgate Circle is the boundary for downtown Annapolis, where West Street, Taylor Avenue and Spa Road intersect.
Fencer disqualified from UMD tourney after refusing to face an opponent she says is transgender
USA Fencing disqualified a fencer from a women’s tournament in Maryland after she refused to face an opponent who she says is transgender.
Masaru Yamada of Japan, left, and Yeisser Ramirez of the United States compete in the men's individual Epee team round of 16 competition at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 30, 2021, in Chiba, Japan. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Maryland joins other Democratic states suing Trump over elections order
“The President has no power to do any of this,” the state attorneys general wrote in court documents.
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 20: Joined by children seated at school desks, U.S. President Donald Trump holds up the signed executive order to reduce the size and scope of the Education Department during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on March 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. The order instructs Education Secretary Linda McMahon, former head of the Small Business Administration and co-founder of the World Wrestling Entertainment, to shrink the $100 billion department, which cannot be dissolved without Congressional approval.
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