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Quadball has transformed significantly since it leapt off the pages of the Harry Potter books.

White women are the nation’s largest voting demographic. Will they elect the first woman president in Kamala Harris? History says no, and that the majority of them will back the white Republican male nominee, Donald J Trump.

A man, 23, testified for more than two hours in U.S. District Court in Baltimore about how his former teacher at the Gilman School, Chris Bendann, sexually abused and extorted him.

Rodney Little, Maryland State Historic Preservation Officer and Director of the Maryland Historical Trust, died in late June.

Howard County officials said approximately 160,000 gallons of sewage overflowed onto the ground surface at the Little Patuxent Water Reclamation Plant on Thursday night. A small amount entered a storm drain before valves were shut off.

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball’s new traffic calming policy overhauls the jurisdiction’s approach to reducing driver speeds on county-owned and maintained roads.

A federal appeals court ruled Friday in favor of Maryland’s tough requirements for obtaining a handgun license, a blow to gun rights supporters who have been fighting the law for years and a win for gun safety advocates.

“We want an America filled with hope and bound together by a shared vision of a brighter future, a future defined by individual freedom, economic promise and national pride,” read the statement, which his sister Kerry Kennedy posted on X. “We believe in Harris and Walz. Our brother Bobby’s decision to endorse Trump today is a betrayal of the values that our father and our family hold most dear.” Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Maryland’s lieutenant governor from 1995 through 2003, signed the statement. Kennedy Townsend ran for governor in 2002, losing to Republican Robert Ehrlich.

The pop-punk band from Baltimore County, All Time Low, is celebrating 20 years together with a newly released album of rerecorded classics and a concert at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia on Saturday.

Here’s what I imagined: an active construction site, heavy machinery, dusty air and loads of dirt with caution tape and signs. And, of course, the infamous sinkhole, swallowing soil into a dark cavern with little space to breathe.

Justin Lee ignited and threw a smoke bomb into the tunnel entrance on the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace, where a mob of rioters attacked a group of outnumbered police officers. The device struck a police officer’s riot shield and filled the mouth of the tunnel with a large plume of smoke, prosecutors said.

Investigators arrested Jalesia Offer, 34, and her fiance Brandon Wheatley, 34, and charged them in connection to the death of Offer’s 6-year-old son Brian Graham, who died this week from blunt force trauma.

The Maryland Transit Administration is making two new improvements that should help riders track buses and trains more reliably.

The city of Baltimore announced this week that it was installing new school-zone speed cameras at four locations, but didn’t say when they would go live.

The Baltimore County Council on Tuesday will adopt a comprehensive zoning map, something it does every four years. But critics say the process is anything but democratic, with individual council members deferring to one another on decisions in their respective districts. Some say this has put too much power in the hands of each council member.

Kamala Harris’ address in Chicago caps a whirlwind eight weeks in American politics and manifests the stunning reversal of Democratic fortunes just 75 days until Election Day.

Detectives with the Baltimore County Homicide Unit arrested Bryan Demetric Cherry, 36, on Thursday. He faces a count of first-degree murder charges and is being held without bond. An attorney was not immediately listed in online court records.

The Sunday night shooting near the building killed one person and wounded seven others. Law enforcement is investigating if the group is involved after noise complaints from the community earlier that night.

The Department of Public Works is scheduled to discuss working conditions at a City Council oversight hearing Thursday night following the death of a solid waste worker.