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    What Baltimore’s liquor board controls — and what it doesn’t
    The main role of Baltimore’s liquor board is to approve licenses for businesses, including restaurants, taverns and liquor stores.
    A spiced apple spritz made with vodka apple, ginger beer and lime at Snake Hill located at 418 S Clinton St, Baltimore, MD 21224
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    Judge to decide ‘as soon as possible’ on release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from ICE detention
    While the fate of Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains uncertain, a federal judge inched closer to making a decision on the release of the Maryland man from immigration detention after an hourslong hearing in Greenbelt on Friday.
    Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers will argue for his immediate release from immigration detention during a hearing on Friday.
    Parkville High 9th grader charged after gun found on campus
    A ninth grader at Parkville High School has been charged as an adult on Friday after officers found the student in possession of a gun.
    Baltimore County Police say officers responded to Parkville High School around 11:30 a.m. after administrators reported seeing what appeared to be the handle of a handgun in the book bag of a 16-year-old student.
    Nor’easter forecast to bring high wind gusts, heavy rain to Baltimore this weekend
    Baltimore Ravens fans headed to the game Sunday should prepare for wet weather as a nor’easter is forecast to bring wind and heavy rain.
    Residents of South Baltimore brave the downpour on December 11, 2024.
    Suspect in North Bethesda killing arrested in North Carolina
    Joshua Carter, 18, a suspect in a Montgomery County killing in September, has been arrested in North Carolina and charged with first-degree murder, Montgomery County Police said.
    A Baltimore County police vehicle’s lights flash while parked outside of the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, Md. on Thursday, March 13, 2025.
    11-year-old girl killed by school bus identified by police
    Summer Lim, 11, was killed on Thursday after a collision with a school bus near her middle school.
    Items left at a Rockville intersection to honor Summer Lim, an 11-year-old girl killed in a collision with a school bus there on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025.
    Annapolis teen who cut neighbor’s lawn arrested 36 years later in her rape, killing
    Annapolis police have arrested a man for the 1989 fatal shooting of Garnet Elizabeth Griffith, a killing that had stumped investigators for more than three decades.
    An Annapolis Police cruiser is seen on West St. during the Annapolis Pride Parade and Festival on June 1, 2024.
    Letter: Government shutdowns punish all of us. They should never happen again.
    Christopher S. Jennison, an employee of the Federal Aviation Administration, says that government shutdowns punish all of us, not just politicians or political parties.
    The U.S. Capitol building before dawn on March 26.
    Family sells Chesapeake schooner business after three decades. ‘We’ve become iconic now.’
    Jen Kaye and her family have sold Schooner Woodwind to 59º North Sailing, a rare change in the rarefied field of commercial sailing.
    Jen Kaye, center, talks about selling her family business to a new family. She was joined by buyers, from left, Mia Karlsson, Andy Schell, Ryan Ellison and her father, Ken Kaye.
    Columbia’s lakefront is getting a new band shell
    Columbia is getting a new $1 million band shell at Lake Kittamaqundi to house dozens of free concerts and events staged at the lakefront each year.
    A rendering of the Columbia Association's plans for a bandshell at Lake Kittamuqundi.
    Here’s Baltimore’s latest plan to start spending millions to combat drug overdoses
    As Baltimore witnessed another mass overdose this week, the city is moving ahead with plans to fund community groups that help people who struggle with drug addiction.
    The city hopes to fund the expansion of harm-reduction services designed to improve safety, including overdose-reversal medication naloxone and clean syringes that reduce the chance of spreading disease.
    A county executive candidate is suing because he wasn’t invited to a debate
    Mithun Banerjee of Silver Spring filed a lawsuit Wednesday in Montgomery County Circuit Court alleging that 15 defendants, including the Montgomery County Renters Alliance Inc. and Montgomery Community Media, broke the law when they excluded him from a candidates forum.
    Montgomery County Executive candidate Mithun Banerjee.
    MCPS school bus involved in fatal collision with 11-year-old girl in Rockville
    A Montgomery County school bus was involved in a fatal collision with an 11-year-old girl on Thursday, Montgomery County Police said.
    A Montgomery County Public Schools bus sits behind police tape with two Montgomery County Police cruisers nearby.
    Museum’s missing turtle statue has been found in Annapolis’ Spa Creek. Twice.
    The founder and director of the Chesapeake Children’s Museum in Annapolis has twice now gone outside to find a four-foot-long statue of a turtle was missing.
    The turtle statue outside the Chesapeake Children's Museum is made of recycled aluminum and
    Tersiguel’s restaurant in Ellicott City to bid adieu after 50 years
    Tersiguel’s French Country Restaurant is closing its doors after five decades on Ellicott City’s Main Street this December.
    Tersiguel's on August 6, 2025, around their 50th Anniversary.
    Angel Reese gets her wings: WNBA player to walk in Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show
    Angel Reese, the Chicago Sky forward and Baltimore County native ,will be the first professional athlete to walk in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on Oct. 15.
    Angel Reese will be the first professional athlete to strut the runway in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show next week.
    Strong nor’easter could bring rain, wind to Maryland this weekend
    A powerful nor’easter will whip up weather along the East Coast and could bring wind and heavy rain to Maryland this weekend.
    Rains splashes a car as a thunderstorm hits during a jiu jitsu lesson at Guardian Baltimore, a non-profit martial arts studio, in Baltimore, Md. on Thursday, July 31, 2025.
    7 things to do in Howard County, from trick or treat to banned books story time
    Here are seven things to do in Howard County from Oct. 9-15, from a banned books story time to a firefighter obstacle course.
    Kids will get a chance to use a real fire hose, like the one pictured here at a Clarksville Volunteer Fire Station open house, during the upcoming community day on Oct. 12.
    The problem with Columbia’s aging cluster mailboxes
    Columbia’s cluster mailboxes are among the oldest in the country and the subject of a yearslong dispute between federal and local authorities over maintenance responsibilities.
    One of Columbia's aging cluster mailboxes is seen on Manor Hill Lane.
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