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Officials warn that the Baltimore-Washington corridor will be the next hot spot, and the virus threatens to run rampant through the city’s most vulnerable neighborhoods. Long neglected, these neighborhoods are a crucial front line in the fight against COVID-19.

More than 200 Marylanders have died of the novel coronavirus and more than 7,000 have tested positive, state officials announced Saturday morning.

Amid the global coronavirus pandemic, fear, frustration and resolve mount in Maryland nursing homes, on the front lines of an emerging hotspot in the hardest-hit nation in the world.

Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. is asking the White House to pressure General Motors to reopen its White Marsh plant as it begins producing life-saving ventilators for increasing numbers of coronavirus patients.

A family member said during an online memorial service Saturday that the recent deaths by drowning of former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend’s 40-year-old daughter Maeve McKean and McKean’s 8-year-old son, Gideon, have resulted in a different magnitude of heartbreak.

From Bali to Belarus, take a look at how different cultures approach this holiday tradition.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced Friday that he’s enacting a state budget freeze as the state continues to respond to the coronavirus pandemic that has infected nearly 7,000 Marylanders.

Maryland’s June 2 primary will be conducted largely by mail, Gov. Larry Hogan has announced, although in-person voting centers will be offered on a limited basis.

The state public defender filed an emergency motion with the Maryland Court of Appeals asking it to step in and order the state to release as many juveniles from custody as it deems appropriate and make immediate efforts to stop crowding at the youth facilities.

Historians who’ve studied the deadliest wave of disease in recorded human history sometimes refer to it as the “forgotten pandemic.” But as COVID-19 unsettles the world a century later, we have much to learn from terrors inflicted by influenza in 1918 and 1919.

The Ravens have to find a middle linebacker. They can’t escape it.

Restaurateur Will Fagg has heard that cabbage soup flavored with tumeric and ginger is good for helping sick people get over the flu. So, he figured he’d make 10 gallons of it and give away every drop on Easter Sunday to people passing by his Federal Hill shop, TinyBrickOven.

While you’re homebound and waiting out the coronavirus pandemic, here’s a quiz to test your knowledge of Baltimore and Maryland — a little history, a little trivia, some sports, a dash of politics — and, don’t worry, we made them all multiple choice.

Some dramatic TV rescue from these stay-at-home days and nights arrives with such stars as Tcheky Karyo, Julia Ormond, Tom Hollander, Michelle Dockery, David Tennant, J.K. Simmons and Cherry Jones. Stream on.

The Baltimore Police Union leadership issued a fiery letter to its members Thursday night opposing what it called city budget plans proposing pay cuts, furloughs, and layoffs by city leaders bracing for budget shortfalls amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Baltimore and the rest of the country seemed to come to a standstill during the covid-19 pandemic. Governor's issued stay-at-home orders while leaving essential businesses open.


Confirmed cases are updated each morning from state reports. Fatality figure may be updated more frequently.

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