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Martin Whittier and Nate Brubaker, two filmmakers from the Baltimore and Washington D.C., area credited with advancing the region’s filmmaking industry, died in a car crash Thursday while driving back from a film production in Philadelphia. - Two men were killed and eight people were injured in separate shootings in Baltimore on Saturday and Sunday, including a fatal quadruple shooting.
- The shooting on the 5500 block of Harford Road, happened around 1:45 a.m., just before Bar Close on a strip of bars and pubs.
- From lower prescription costs to cleaner power, here’s what the federal "Inflation Reduction Act" means for Maryland.
- This is the second in a series of stories featuring the five finalists in the 11th annual Carroll Biz Challenge. The competition, which will conclude Aug. 18 with a live finale at the Carroll Arts Center in Westminster, is run by the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce.
- Horticulture therapy uses plants and plant-related activities to improve an individual’s health and well being. BotaniGal founder Hannah Brookfield believes the practice can benefit a wide range of Carroll County residents.
- With the Orioles (59-54) finding themselves in a race for an American League wild-card spot, it’s more difficult to balance the rebuild and a sudden opportunity to win now.
- Edward T. “Tom” Maxwell Jr., a retired criminal defense attorney who practiced for more than 50 years and a civil rights activist, died from heart failure July 16 at Gilchrist Center in Towson. He was 88 and lived in Homeland.
- In his major league debut, Orioles starting pitcher DL Hall allowed five runs in 3 2/3 innings in an 8-2 loss to the Rays that moved Baltimore a half-game back of Tampa Bay in the wild-card race.
- A Maryland man has been charged in connection with the death of a woman last month after the boat she was in was struck by another vessel on a river, authorities said.
- An especially violent Friday left four men dead and another injured in shootings across Baltimore.
- Less than two weeks remain for a local group to gather hundreds more signatures on a petition that would allow Taneytown voters to decide whether the Sewell farm property will be annexed into town.
- Ever since Orioles shortstop Jorge Mateo met with manager Brandon Hyde and co-hitting coaches Matt Borgschulte and Ryan Fuller in July, he's been a different hitter. “That’s been a huge boost for us the last couple months," Hyde said.
- Growing up in Annapolis, Lovell Offer woke up most days thinking he would end up in jail. Now, seven months in to running his nonprofit Small City Big Dreams, Lovell has helped more than two dozen people entire rehab and more than 200 obtain a job interview.
- Thomas Michael Volatile, a retired insurance salesman and former Navy lieutenant commander, died of cancer Aug. 8 at his Lewes, Delaware, home. He was 92 and had lived in Hunt Valley.
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Austin Voth flirts with perfection, Orioles pile on to beat Rays, 10-3, move into wild-card position
With a win Friday at Tropicana Field, the Orioles (59-53) moved a half-game ahead of Tampa Bay (58-53) and took sole possession of the third and final American League wild-card spot. - DL Hall, 23, was Baltimore’s first-round pick in the 2017 draft. He has since established himself as one of the game’s top pitching prospects.
- Thirty-two years after they attended the Naval Academy, Mike Graham and Heather Keane returned to the Yard as parents this weekend to say goodbye to their daughter Darby as she concludes Plebe Summer and enters the institution in the Class of 2026.
- Aryeh Wolf, a 25-year-old Baltimore man, was shot and killed Wednesday while working on solar panels in Southeast Washington, D.C.
- Baltimore County police on Friday released the name of a 68-year-old man whose body was found in a burning car in Rosedale more than two weeks ago.
- The family of a 20-year-old Crofton man who was fatally shot by an Anne Arundel Police officer in January has hired a Chicago civil rights attorney, and plans to sue the department in federal court next week.
- A federal judge handed down the last sentences this week in a racketeering case involving 15 people who were convicted for their involvement in a smuggling operation at the Jessup Correctional Institution.
- Questions have been raised about the effectiveness and oversight of the COVID-19 relief program, which awarded $28.6 billion in grants to thousands of businesses.
- The Heirloom Tomato Festival will be held Aug. 20 at the Carroll County Agriculture Center in Westminster, alongside the popular Carroll County Farmers Market.
- A federal judge has ruled that Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services violated anti-discrimination laws in its dealings with a gay employee.
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Graphics: The latest Maryland COVID cases, vaccinations and other metrics
Graphics: The latest Maryland COVID cases, vaccinations and other metrics
View visualizations of Maryland COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, deaths, testing, positivity rate and vaccinations. -
Baltimore State’s Attorney Mosby held in contempt of court for Keith Davis Jr. comment, fined $1,500
A Baltimore judge on Friday held State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby in contempt of court, finding the top prosecutor willfully violated an order prohibiting her from speaking about the controversial criminal cases of Keith Davis Jr. when she commented on social media last month.
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- Environmentalists and scientists worry that a proposed Federalsburg salmon farm could inundate the shallow Marshyhope Creek with surges of cold water that could make it inhospitable for its spawning population of Atlantic sturgeon.
- Less litigation and more mediation is what the Angelos brothers need.
- A passenger passed through security and on to his gate with a replica firearm at the BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport early Friday morning.
- Renée McDonald Hutchins, the soon-to-be dean of the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, never planned on being a lawyer. Coming from a family of doctors, she initially thought her law career was just happenstance.
- The key criterion for leadership in the Republican Party today is having the right enemies.
- After a hot and stormy week, Baltimore can expect sunny skies and temperatures peaking in the low 80s throughout the weekend, with highs of 83 Friday through Sunday.
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- Journalist and U.S. veteran Austin Tice went missing in Syria 10 years ago.
- After trying to one-up each other growing up in Florida, Orioles teammates Joey Krehbiel and Brett Phillips forged a friendship that carried through Seminole High School and travel baseball leagues and eventually made its way to Baltimore.
- Filled with 208 years of Baltimore and U.S. firsts, the Peale Museum is reopening on Aug. 13 geared to Light City’s communities.
- Kathy C. Cordes, a former Baltimore Sun artist who later worked at NASA’s Space Telescope Institute, has died. She was 71.
- The Orioles went 2-for-9 with runners in scoring position, and Red Sox first baseman Eric Hosmer’s sixth-inning RBI double off reliever Nick Vespi proved to be decisive in a 4-3 loss that moved Baltimore out of the third wild-card spot.
- Maryland football coach Mike Locksley continued an annual tradition that has warmed the hearts of many since he took over the program in 2019.
- Maryland will receive $6 million to fund improvements at Baltimore's Penn Station, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced Thursday.
- A woman suspected of injuring two Baltimore firefighters by shooting a BB gun at a medic unit was arrested Wednesday, Maryland State Police said.
- Martin Whittier and Nate Brubaker, two filmmakers from the Baltimore and Washington D.C., area credited with advancing the region’s filmmaking industry, died in a car crash Thursday while driving back from a film production in Philadelphia.
