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Anne Arundel County police arrested the son of a cybersecurity executive on Saturday and charged him with murdering his 58-year-old mother Juanita Koilpillai who was found dead from multiple sharp force injuries Sunday.

Kathleen J. Burke, a homemaker who enjoyed playing cards, died in her sleep July 23 at Gilchrist Center in Towson. The former longtime Columbia resident was 79.

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In his first hint of when the Orioles will be ready to contend, executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias said "we hope to be a playoff contender" while the players they held onto at the trade deadline are under team control.

The Anne Arundel County Council agreed on the procedure Thursday evening through which it will fill a vacant seat on the Board of Education — the first such vacancy since the board was transformed by state law in 2017.

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Pitching a season-high 6 ⅓ innings, Matt Harvey became only the fourth Oriole in the past 40 years with three consecutive starts of at least six innings without allowing a run, joining Kevin Gausman, Fernando Valenzuela and Jim Palmer.

It’s doubtful that one of the Orioles’ top five prospects will return from an injury this season, while the organization is hoping to get good news in the near future on another.

Speaking with reporters for the first time since they were placed on the COVID-19 injured list last week, Orioles left-handed pitcher Keegan Akin and outfielder Anthony Santander didn’t detail what led to that designation and declined to say whether they have received the coronavirus vaccine.

Anne Arundel County police charged a teenage mother who gave birth and left her infant in the woods in Glen Burnie with attempted first- and second-degree murder and a host of other child abuse offenses Friday.

Howard County Public School System Superintendent Michael Martirano on Friday announced that, effective immediately, masks will be required in school buildings for all students, staff and visitors regardless of their COVID-19 vaccination status.

An EF-0 tornado with wind gusts of up to 70 mph touched down in Columbia late Thursday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service.

A busy trade deadline around Major League Baseball was quiet for the rebuilding Orioles, who made one minor trade but held onto the available players on their major league roster, including Trey Mancini, John Means and Cedric Mullins.

The case rate rose to 3.5 cases per 100,000 while the decision was being made, prompting the installation to remain at HPCON Bravo.

A 33-year-old woman drove around with the body of a young girl in her trunk for "many months," then in May placed the girl’s dead younger brother in the trunk beside her decomposing body, according to documents charging her in connection with their deaths.

After playing the violin in two moving orchestra performances as a student at the University of Maryland, College Park, Columbia resident Melanie Kuperstein decided to form a moving orchestra ensemble of her own, which has its debut concert at The Chrysalis at Merriweather Park at Symphony Woods in Columbia on Saturday evening.

Here's everything you need to know before the Orioles' road game Friday night against the Detroit Tigers.

State troopers investigating Robert Wayne Olszewski Jr., a cousin of Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr., found multiple child porn files on a device during a search warrant of Robert's home, police say.

For public health experts, delta represents the next grave chapter of the global health crisis, one that threatens to upend the progress made at returning to pre-pandemic life and could devastate the communities most resistant to getting inoculated against COVID-19.

While part of the facade of the BJ’s Wholesale Club in Columbia collapsed after severe storms rolled through the area Thursday, it is unclear if the storms were responsible, according to Adam Nolder, a spokesperson for the Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services.

This weekend, motorists can expect daytime and nighttime lane closures along I-695 through next Friday.

Anne Arundel County police arrested three men in connection to a shooting on Sunday that damaged three cars and strayed into the window of a nearby house in Annapolis.

A February halt to Department of Defense advisory boards has prevented the Naval Academy Board of Visitors from meeting since 2020.

On the men's side, top nonconference opponents include Florida and Virginia Tech. On the women's side, the Terps will face defending champion Stanford and South Carolina, which reached the Final Four last season.

Summer, a former military and police explosive detection dog from Mount Airy, was voted the top military dog in the 2021 American Humane Hero Dog Awards. She and six other finalists are now competing for the top title of American Hero Dog.