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State plans to improve traffic signal on Route 140 in Finksburg
The State Highway Administration is moving forward with plans to improve traffic signal operations at the intersection of Routes 140 and 91 in Finksburg, which officials say could reduce the number of crashes there by 40%. The state will install new traffic signals that will allow left turns from westbound Route 140 (Baltimore Boulevard) onto southbound Route 91 (Emory Road) under a solid ...
6 people charged in connection to car rallies in Prince George’s County, state police say
Maryland State Police have charged six people for participation in what they called illegal large-scale exhibition driving events in Prince George’s County. In June, the Maryland Car Rally Task Force, which includes the Maryland State Police andTransportation Authority Police along with several local law enforcement departments, responded to three car rallies in Laurel, Greenbelt, Beltsville ...
Some Baltimore City Community College students to be paid $50 to meet with career advisors under pilot program
Some Baltimore City Community College students will be paid to meet with career counselors under a new grant to keep students enrolled and help them complete their study programs. The grant program, called Expanding Success, awards $125,000 each to BCCC, Prince George’s Community College and Wor-Wic Community College, which serves Worcester and Wicomico counties. Up to 250 eligible students ...
Orioles trade Austin Hays to Phillies for reliever Seranthony Domínguez, outfielder Cristian Pache
The first domino has fallen. In what’s been expected to be a busy trade deadline for the Orioles, the club made its first move Friday afternoon — an unconventional and surprising one. Baltimore traded veteran left fielder Austin Hays — an All-Star in 2023 and a team leader since the rebuild — to the Philadelphia Phillies for right-handed reliever Seranthony Domínguez and outfielder Cristian ...
From Black Girls Vote to the ‘#KHive,’ excitement builds for Kamala Harris in Maryland
In the nine years since Nykidra Robinson launched Black Girls Vote, she’s never felt the type of momentum she experienced this week around her mission to get more Black women and girls involved in the political process. The likelihood that Vice President Kamala Harris will become the Democratic presidential nominee, after President Joe Biden’s exit from the race, has sparked a jolt of ...
Dan Rodricks: Two big questions for David Bramble about Harborplace | STAFF COMMENTARY
I had two questions for David Bramble: What happens if his fellow Baltimoreans go to the polls in November and vote down his plan to build high-rise apartment buildings at Harborplace? And if, on the other hand, voters say yea to that, where are the tenants going to park? I know: That second question is so eternally Baltimorean, but I had to ask. Bramble and his company, MCB Real Estate, ...
Maryland’s list of Summer Olympics medalists goes back to the first modern games
More than two dozen athletes with Maryland ties are set to compete in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Some of them are already among the at least 30 Maryland medalists from the Summer Games, a list that goes back to the first modern Olympics in 1896. If counting by medal winners, swimming is Maryland’s best sport, which was the case even before Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky, while ...
The Crown, a bar in Baltimore’s Station North, to close in August
The Crown, a Station North bar and live entertainment venue, will cease operations after an 11-year run. “Due to circumstances beyond our control, the business has made the difficult decision to close after 11 years of service in the Station North Arts District,” said the Crown on Instagram. Shows and business will continue through the weekend of Aug. 11, and the Crown will host some farewell ...
Ballot question aimed at stopping Baltimore’s Harborplace development still short on signatures as deadline nears
A campaign to put a question on ballots this fall asking voters to preserve parkland along Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, and subsequently scuttle a proposed redevelopment of Harborplace, is still short of the required signatures with the deadline approaching Monday. The effort, spearheaded by former mayoral candidate Thiru Vignarajah, would ask voters to amend the city charter to create a system ...
Olympics 2024: These Maryland athletes are headed to Paris
The quadrennial festivities begin Friday under a setting sun along the magical River Seine in the heart of Paris, France. Thousands of Olympic athletes will fill national delegation boats for a first-of-its kind nearly 4-mile parade signaling the opening ceremonies of the 2024 Summer Games. That will usher in 16 days of competition. Here’s every Maryland athlete competing in the 2024 Summer ...
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