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The weather is expected to clear up ahead of New Year’s Eve celebrations.

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott shared the news of his engagement to girlfriend Hana Pugh on Facebook on Dec. 25, 2023. No wedding date has been publicly announced.

Savage, Maryland, could have had a different history of becoming a permanent Christmas village, and 75 years ago this was reality. The new Savage Mill owner, who also bought hundreds of homes in the town, hosted a one-ring circus, reindeer and Santas as far as the eye could see for yearly celebrations and put a small town on the map.

Two rowhomes were vandalized with smashed watermelons, long considered a symbol of solidarity with Palestine.

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A national annual scorecard gives the state a passing grade for the strength of its gun safety laws.

AAA says around 2.3 million Marylanders will hit the roads and the skies over the next several days.

Robyn Dixon of Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of Potomac” will open a monthly subscription-based skin care studio in Columbia.

All lanes were shut down for several hours.

A jury is deliberating whether to convict Joseph Black for accelerating his car during a 2022 traffic stop, dragging Det. Sgt. Kenneth Ramberg and seriously injuring him.

A Dunbar High School student was arrested for a handgun violation on Wednesday, school officials say.

In West Friendship Park where the Howard County Living Farm Heritage Museum recently closed, the more than 340 acres of land will now be home to the county’s new Office of Agriculture to support county farmers.

Daniel is stepping down after seven years heading Baltimore’s 137-year-old library system.

Cohn, a journalist-turned-media executive who was president of The Atlantic and now leads The Economist, will head the local news organization.

The Maryland Attorney General’s Office is investigating the circumstances of the 21-year-old man’s encounter with police.

Look for widespread 1- to 3-inch rain totals, and the best chance of 3 inches of rain or more will be in Baltimore and points north and west.

The barricade situation ended around 1 p.m. At that point, one of the two people at the home had died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.

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Jim Pollock is a man of steel. He looks for it, he finds it, he sees things in it. And then he cuts it, bends it, welds it. But the man of steel is not made of steel himself, and he can feel that now.

In a unanimous decision, the Maryland Public Service Commission has authorized a rate increase over three years.