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The National Weather Service says the area could see scattered showers and thunderstorms Sunday evening, with more severe storms passing through Monday.

Ogletree represented Anita Hill when she accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during the future U.S. Supreme Court justice’s Senate confirmation hearings in 1991.

The highest concentration of descendants is in Maryland, according to the study published this week in the journal “Science.”

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Bates said the charges against the three women would have been dropped after they completed five hours of community service through Baltimore’s citation docket program. They spent "approximately 19 hours" in Central Booking, he said.

“Whose brilliant idea was it to give it a name no one will ever use? It’s going to be ‘the Pepsi sign’ until the end of time,” one Twitter user suggested.

As Italy struggles with too many blue crabs in its waters, we can’t help but ask: Can we have them?

The program aimed to pull young people off squeegee corners and give them an opportunity to grow personally and professionally, and to help them achieve their version of success.

Nationally and in Baltimore, low-income areas have disproportionately less leafy tree canopy than wealthier ones.

“He’s confident he’s going to be rescued,” Tony Lawson said. “I think he would want the world to know, I’m a survivor. I’m confident I’m going to be rescued. I think Donald wants the world to know he’s going to get this done.”

Baltimore’s Pepsi sign, long associated with traffic incidents, has been replaced.

Baltimore will soon have an official network of water trails to take in the city’s sights by canoe, kayak or stand-up paddleboard.

The cows have been spotted in more than five places around the streets and neighborhoods of Bowie.

The $1.25 billion prize for Friday’s drawing is one of the largest in U.S. history.

Baltimore City Community College will demolish long-vacant Bard Building after a Wednesday vote.

The Maryland Transportation Authority’s collision reconstruction unit is investigating the cause of the crash. Officials said the driver of the vehicle that struck the man remained at the scene.

The Mexican Navy is in charge of search operations for Lawson, 41, a professional sailor who grew up in Woodlawn and was last heard from more than two weeks ago while almost 300 nautical miles off the Pacific Coast of Mexico.

Although there were no jackpot winners, one ticket in Pennsylvania was worth $5 million and another in the state connected for $1 million.

Reporter Hugo Kugiya explains how his time on the water has informed his coverage of Donald Lawson’s disappearance and why boating incidents are different.