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A 47-year-old man who was riding a bicycle in Midtown-Edmondson died early Sunday after being struck by a vehicle that fled the scene, and a 9-year-old was injured in a Saturday hit-and-run, according to Baltimore Police. Police said in a news release that officers responded at about 12:25 a.m. Sunday to the West Franklin and…

Dear Amy: I am a 64-year-old woman, the youngest in my family. When I was 16, one of my cousins, “Will,” (a 30-year-old man who is now a doctor) invited me to New York City for a visit. I barely knew this side of the family, and I thought it would be great to go…

Dear Amy: I am the youngest of three siblings. I’m in my 60’s. To avoid conflicts with my older sister, “Ann,” I will say “good idea,” but will do things my way, anyway. We live on opposite sides of the country and don’t get along. My husband and I have a good, happy marriage. Ann’s marriage is…

By Will Weissert and Meg Kinnard, Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden is looking for an easy victory Saturday in South Carolina’s Democratic primary that officially kicks off his party’s nominating process, validating a new lineup he championed to better empower Black voters who helped revive his 2020 campaign. Biden is overwhelmingly favored against Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips and self-help author Marianne Williamson.…

The 1927 Great Mississippi Flood had a profound socio-political effect on American history. It also had an impact on Carroll County. The flood propelled a great American leader, Robert Russa Moton, the president of a small college, into the national spotlight. Years later, a school built just outside Westminster in 1930, was named for him.…

The purchase of the Orioles by private equity billionaire David Rubenstein will be discussed by Major League Baseball owners at their meeting in Florida next week and is on track to be approved more quickly than similar team sales, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the deal’s prospects. Such approvals – involving scrutiny…

AUBURN, Ala. — Auburn coach Hugh Freeze has hired former Maryland coach and Texas A&M defensive coordinator DJ Durkin to run his defense. Freeze announced the move Wednesday. Durkin was with the Aggies the past two years after two seasons at Mississippi and has also coached at Michigan and Florida. “DJ has been a successful…

Dear Amy: I’m a 50-year-old woman, and I haven’t had a serious relationship in about a decade. My first two partners (when I was in my 20s and early 30s) were controlling and emotionally abusive. I know I overlooked a lot of obvious red flags back then (and made excuses for these people). So, now,…

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Does this mean Wes Moore and John Angelos aren’t besties anymore? Throughout this long soap opera — the Angelos family feud over the stewardship of the Baltimore Orioles, the protracted negotiations for a new team lease at Camden Yards, worries and rumors about the O’s moving to Nashville, the governor’s very public celebration of a…

Former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby is taking the witness stand Wednesday in her federal mortgage fraud trial. Mosby made her decision around 10 a.m. to testify in defense of two counts of making false statements on mortgage applications for a pair of properties in Florida: an eight-bedroom house near Disney World and condo on…

Finally, a glimmer of hope in Baltimore County. John “Johnny O.” Olszewski, Jr., who’s entering his sixth year as county executive and recently announced plans to run for Congress, has introduced his first bill aimed at bringing the county’s notoriously dysfunctional laws on planning, zoning and development into the 21st century. Bill 3-24 creates a…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging health care providers to be “on alert” for patients with symptoms of measles — a virus declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000 — after nearly two dozen cases have been reported across the country in the past month. Between Dec. 1 and Jan. 23, the…

Carroll County Health Department officials are warning Taneytown residents about possible exposure to a rabid fox found dead in the area on Friday. According to a Tuesday news release from the health department, a fox was found dead Friday near Starboard Court in the Windy Hills development off Trevanion Road in Taneytown. The fox had…

For decades, every morning I sit with my Baltimore Sun at the breakfast table while leaning to the right to balance the far left Sun presentation of news and analysis. New owner Armstrong Williams’ recent commentary in the “Owner’s Box” was a breath of fresh air (“Armstrong Williams: Anti-Israel response to Hamas terror attack ‘wrong,…

Dear Amy: My husband and I are in our mid-30’s. We’ve been together for 10 years. During the course of our marriage, we have traveled a lot and have had some wonderful adventures. We’ve been talking about whether we should have children, and, true to our personalities, we’ve been doing a lot of research about…

Last year was resoundingly the year of Taylor Swift. In 2023, she was named Time Magazine’’ Person of the Year, she became a billionaire, and she found love with Travis Kelce. For Swifties, perhaps Taylor’s biggest win of the year was her relationship with Kelce. After all, like many of us, she’s endured years of heartbreak from countless heartless heartthrobs.…

Dear Amy: My mom unexpectedly passed away about a year ago after a very brief illness. We were extremely close. I was with her nearly every moment for those last weeks. When she died, I was raw, devastated and completely numb. It took me days to even be able to shed a tear. My sister-in-law, whom I love,…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR (AP Sports Writer) GENEVA (AP) — Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was disqualified from the 2022 Olympics on Monday, almost two years after the teenager’s doping case caused turmoil at the Beijing Games. The verdict from the Court of Arbitration for Sport means the Russians are set to be stripped of the…

By JOHN PYE (AP Sports Writer) MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Jannik Sinner lined up a forehand, drilled it down the line and dropped to the court on his back, giving himself a few moments to process how he’d managed to come back from two sets down to win his first Grand Slam title. The 22-year-old…

Well, it looks like we just endured a genuine blast of real winter weather. That is, enough to put a few inches of “unsafe ice” on our central Maryland lakes and ponds. Shucks, I was hoping for some more balmy January days and nights and saving on the heating oil. Anyway, it surely won’t stop…