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The United States Honor Flag will make a solemn journey to Maryland to honor Agent Davis Geovanni Martinez of the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services’ Division of Parole and Probation, according to The Honor Network. Davis was killed in the line of duty in May. The nonprofit organization says the United States…

Gas prices in Baltimore have risen 10.4 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.61 a gallon, according to GasBuddy’s new survey. Prices in Baltimore are 9.5 cents per gallon higher than a month ago and stand 21.5 cents per gallon higher than a year ago. The national average price of gasoline has risen…

A “mass exodus” led to numerous injuries after a “possible chemical agent” was released during a Baltimore Pride event Saturday, according to police. Baltimore Police confirmed Sunday that the incident occurred around 7 p.m. and that the possible chemical agent released in front of the event’s main music stage near North Avenue and Charles Street,…

Sykesville Juneteenth Celebration Saturday, commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African American and celebrate African American culture. Gospel singer Earnest Thomas performs with Isaac Barnes on the drums and lead gutarist Lawrence Bryant during the Sykesville Juneteenth Celebration. (Karen Jackson /Freelance) Kion Harkless, 6, draws with sidewalk chalk along Oklahoma Avenue during the Sykesville Juneteenth Celebration.…

As the father of two boys, and with twins on the way, I’m cashing in my Father’s Day chip to share some unsolicited thoughts on the rewards of being called “Dad.” I’ll start with one of its most unexpected and wonderful gifts: time travel. I’m starting to gray and lose hair, crows’ feet fan out…

The T. Rowe Price patch on the Orioles team jersey can be viewed as commercial sponsorship or as nothing different than the historical names Hopkins and Pratt and Meyerhoff and Lewis on local institutions (“Orioles to add T. Rowe Price patch to jersey sleeve as part of ‘multiyear’ deal,” June 10). Price was a Baltimore…

Terri Fabula is a local self-taught artist living in New Windsor. Fabula always dabbled in art. Her grandfather, a sign painter and gilder, was her inspiration. Fabula’s grandfather painted murals on the walls of his home. Some of the murals were Asian scenes inspired from his time in the military. Others were paintings of birds…

This year two Juneteenth celebrations have been scheduled in Carroll County. The town of Sykesville planned an afternoon of events on June 15. Another organization, SpeakOnIt ActOnIt, has scheduled a celebration at Carroll Community College on June 22 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This will be the third annual celebration hosted by SpeakOnIt. Diane…

A Baltimore man was convicted of manslaughter Friday in the September fatal shooting of an off-duty Howard County sheriff’s deputy in Federal Hill. The jury acquitted Jewel Crowder of murder in the shooting death of 23-year-old Ryan Demby but found him guilty of manslaughter, using a firearm in the commission of a crime of violence…

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The Maryland State Police is investigating a single-vehicle crash in Mount Airy that killed a Woodbine man Thursday night. At 9:50 p.m. Thursday, troopers responded to reports of a single-vehicle crash on eastbound Interstate 70 near Route 27 in Carroll County. According to the investigation, Dimitri John Valmas, 41, was traveling east on I-70 in…

Former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby will begin her year of home detention June 20, according to court filings in her federal criminal case. The year of electronic monitoring is the first phase of Mosby’s sentence for perjury and mortgage fraud. U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby also gave Mosby three years of probation at…

Black public school students in Carroll County have higher rates of math proficiency than Black students in any other county in the state, data from the Maryland State Department of Education shows. “Minority students are one of the reasons the school system is doing well,” said Rodney Morris, president of the Carroll County chapter of…

It breaks my heart that a man came armed to the Harford Mall, where children go to have fun, walkers go for their daily exercise, many old folks hang out to people watch, and the disabled are brought by their supervisors for an outing. The gunman pumped bullets into a fellow man he knew, over…

It’s June and there is a lot to celebrate! First of all, this Sunday is Father’s Day so I’d like to wish all of the dads out there—including my husband, Tom, and our son, Dave—a very happy day. We’ll be grillin’ and chillin’ and I hope you do, too. Just a few days later we…

The instant Bailey Anne Kennedy was named Miss Maryland USA at the start of this month, she made history. Never before had a transgender woman, Asian-American woman, military officer’s wife or 31-year-old vied for the sparkly tiara and won. Kennedy had it all. “For the longest time … a trans woman could not compete,” she…

A Prince George’s County man was charged in connection with the death of his 2-year-old son after the child was found dead in his father’s care on Sunday. The cause of death is still unknown. Sunday morning at around 3:40 a.m., officers responded to a home on the 5400 block of Livingston Terrace in Oxon…

A Windsor Mill man pleaded guilty Friday to a manslaughter charge stemming from a crash last August that sent a 50-year-old motorist into the water below Interstate 395, killing him. In addition to an eight-year sentence suspended down from 15 years, Baltimore Circuit Judge Kendra Y. Ausby sentenced Latrell Sanders to serve five years of…

By JAMEY KEATEN (Associated Press) GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights office is citing possible war crimes by Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups in connection with a deadly raid by Israeli forces that freed four hostages over the weekend and killed hundreds of Palestinians. Office spokesman Jeremy Laurence expressed concerns about possible violations…

By RANDALL CHASE, CLAUDIA LAUER, MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, COLLEEN LONG and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER (Associated Press) WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Hunter Biden was convicted Tuesday of all three felony charges related to the purchase of a revolver in 2018 when, prosecutors argued, the president’s son lied on a mandatory gun-purchase form by saying he was not illegally…

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Regarding President Joe Biden’s age, it has become a “thing” because the media (including The Baltimore Sun) won’t stop harping on it (“Overcoming ageism in politics and beyond,” April 14). The Republicans have been cagey on the subject preferring to let their “fellow travelers” such as Jonah Goldberg or Bret Stephens run point since Donald…