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The Orioles were swept out of Minnesota in four games after a 10-1 loss to the Twins, completing their six-game road trip to Philadelphia and Minneapolis without a win.

Ahead of its $55 million bond sale scheduled for Valentine's Day, Harford County government announced it has retained its top, AAA credit ratings on the bonds.

It's impossible to fully capture centuries of black history in just 28 days (29 in a leap year), yet every February, people in Baltimore and beyond give it their best shot. This year is no exception. Whether you're looking to laugh or learn, discuss or dance, there's something for everyone this Black History Month. Here are five events and a brief roundup of some of the most celebratory black history events this year.

William C. Rhoden, who wrote for The New York Times for 33 years, including the past 26 as "Sports of The Times" columnist, before retiring in July, is the winner of the third annual Sam Lacy-Wendell Smith Award presented by the Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism.

It seems when an issue comes to a head in the black community, we derive resolutions based on historical figures and the dialogical self. It seems like you have to choose between Marcus Garvey's black-nationalist and separatist ideals, W.E.B. DuBois' elitist talented tenth and assimilative ideals, and Booker T. Washington's bootstrap reasoning. At some point sociological issues intersect with your blackness. You have to believe in something and you have to do something, even though the

If you take Cal Ripken at his word, his quest to become baseball's all-time iron man was not a quest at all.

Mike Trout flashed the skill that puts him at the front of baseball's new generation, just moments after four of the all-time greats walked off the field.

Too bad Mark Harvey, the M & T Bank Stadium and Camden Yards streaker, didn't get the same deal Morganna Roberts, "The Kissing Bandit," did in 1988 when she ran onto the field at Memorial Stadium and bussed a surprised Cal Ripken Jr. as he came up to bat.