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Since August 1958, the Billboard Hot 100 has been the authority on what’s hot in popular music across the country. Using data accumulated over each week, the Billboard Hot 100 has given credibility and visibility to musical veterans and neophytes alike with songs ranging from traditional pop to rock to rap. Click through to learn which songs opened the year in the No. 1 spot over the past 62 years.

Francis Xavier Bushman, one of Hollywood’s first superstars who was known as the “Handsomest Man in the World” and thrilled 1920s moviegoers with his performance in the famous chariot race scene from “Ben-Hur,” was born in Baltimore in 1883, and grew up in a rowhouse at Argyle Avenue and Mosher Street in the city’s Upton neighborhood.

Former national Republican Party chairman Michael Steele says he is seriously considering running for Maryland governor next year, and that the GOP should “stand and fight” for values he believes it lost under Donald Trump’s presidency.

Failing grades have doubled — and sometimes tripled — in school systems across the state, as the prolonged effects of learning from home take their toll on student achievement and well-being.

Howard County Police said officers are investigating a domestic-related shooting in Ellicott City Thursday evening.

Baltimore residents condemned the city’s proposed budget, specifically a $28 million increase in funding for the city police department, during the city’s annual Taxpayers’ Night on Wednesday.

University President Darryll Pines made the announcement during his inauguration ceremony Thursday that the facility would be named to honor Darryl Hill, who broke the color barrier in football for the university in 1963, as well as Billy Jones, who made history in 1965 as the Terps first black basketball player.

Wearing face masks reading “Housing is a Human Right,” a number of homeless residents and advocates demanded the city further extend its contract agreements with several hotels and motels to house homeless residents during the coronavirus pandemic and commit to work toward providing more permanent housing.