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The goal of this rite of passage is for classmates to scale the monument, which is covered with shortening, remove the “Dixie cup” hat at the top and replace it with an upperclassman’s hat, called a “cover.” With this, the freshmen are no longer considered plebes.

Recent deaths of horses cast a shadow on the Preakness and the other Triple Crown races, pointing to the need for reforms to the U.S. horseracing industry, says Keith Dane, senior director of equine protection at the Humane Society of the United States.

The Baltimore resident was found at a hotel in the South Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens, New York, and is awaiting extradition to Baltimore.

In preparation for a very busy Preakness weekend, the Baltimore City Department of Transportation announced road closures and special traffic patterns will be implemented in the Pimlico area.

Baltimore County residents will see a 4.9% hike in rates for their water consumption.

The woman Taylor Swift defended during a show in Philadelphia this weekend is from Maryland, and she talked to WJZ about the viral moment.

Community residents say they are fed up with lack of transparency and communication.

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Video shows the teen at one point pulled out a gun and held it in his hand.

Moving low-income families out of high-poverty neighborhoods can improve kids’ asthma more than medications do, according to research from the Johns Hopkins University and the Baltimore Regional Housing Partnership.

Family members and friends gathered on the tarmac to greet the casket of the 20-year-old Baltimore native and City College graduate.

The burgeoning restaurant entrepreneur left his prison sentence in the past and is now seeing his businesses expand beyond Charm City.

A 2020 plan to redevelop Pimlico Race Course and Laurel Park fell apart due to a variety of factors. Now racing industry stakeholders are negotiating a new plan, and they’re considering boosting Pimlico as the year-round home of thoroughbred racing.

“There is no safe place.” The prison death of notorious child rapist John Merzbacher, 81, brings small comfort to survivors of his abuse, who are still traumatized by the acts that went on in his classroom at the Catholic Community School of Baltimore in the 1970s.

Cedric Elleby has been with the Baltimore Police Department since June 2019.

Teens ages 18, 16, and 14 were shot in separate incidents.

MIAA top teams vying to a league title and final No. 1 ranking this week; McDonogh girls solidify their No. 1 spot with their IAAM A championship

Crews were working to install a gas line when a water main was struck and broke, leading to a steam pipe explosion Sunday evening in downtown Baltimore.

Twitter blue checks, once used to verify your identity, have given way to a topsy turvy world of uncertainty and trolling for the low price of $8.

Pittsburgh pitcher Mitch Keller struck out a career-high 13 to beat the Orioles.