WEATHER
cloudy skies with a slight chance of rain and a high near 48 degrees. It is expected to be cloudy tonight with a low temperature around 35 degrees.
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FROM LAST NIGHT...
: The Annapolis City Council met in closed session Monday night to discuss the residency issues surrounding Alderman Kenneth A. Kirby, who is without a permanent home, but offered no new details on how the city would proceed on the issue.
: Gov. Martin O'Malley said that his same-sex marriage bill could be voted out of a House committee as early as this week, but acknowledged that he's still a few votes short on the floor.
: Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller says an ethics committee has reached a conclusion on what it will recommend to the Senate to address a senator's failure to disclose work he did for a grocery store chain.
: Under the plea agreement, Brian Joseph Flynn, 38, is expected to be sentenced to 45 years with all but 20 years of the sentence suspended, according to a news release from the Harford County State's Attorney's Office.
TODAY'S FRONT PAGE
: As President Barack Obama proposed a new round of military base closures and reorganization, Maryland's political and business forces already are working to protect installations here and position the state to benefit from any future moves.
: Many of the reductions in the president's 2013 spending plan would affect Maryland, including funding for Chesapeake Bay cleanup, teaching hospitals such as Johns Hopkins and research grants awarded by the Bethesda-based National Institutes of Health.
: Coaches and athletics officials who carefully monitor what players say to reporters have struggled to react to new technology allowing athletes unfiltered communication with the public.
: The expenses reported by the Center for Research on Institutions and Social Policy showed nearly 40 percent of the foundation's expenditures over two years covered entertainment, meals and travel.
: Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake expressed concerns about her schools chief's proposal to borrow $1.2 billion to fix Baltimore's crumbling school buildings, touting her own more modest plan as realistic in her State of the City address Monday.
[Compiled by Dean Jones Jr.]