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A 15-year-old boy from Hampstead was found to have a handgun while traveling in a vehicle with suspected cannabis, police say. Dashawn Lewis, 19, of Hampstead, was driving a gray Dodge Durango in Taneytown when Carroll County Sheriff’s Office deputies stopped the car for having a suspended registration and a broken brake light just before…

By DANIEL NIEMANN, JILL LAWLESS and MIKE CORDER STOCKHOLM (AP) — South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for a poetic and unsettling body of work that the Nobel committee said “confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” A slow-burning international literary star who…

The Orioles suspended baseball activity at the Ed Smith Stadium in Sarasota, Florida, on Monday as Hurricane Milton makes for the state this week. Players and staff are in safe locations. The facility is being used as a staging site for Florida Power & Light and as a sandbag distribution center for Sarasota County, the…

Sparks-based Kelly Benefits, one of the largest benefits and payroll firms in the U.S., plans to expand its East Coast presence with the acquisition of a Pennsylvania firm. Kelly said it is acquiring Gettysburg Benefits Administrators Inc., a privately owned, family-run business founded in 1979. GBA offers billing and benefit administrative technology services with a…

Thank you for Matt Hubbard’s front-page report, “Lowest number of fatal overdoses in seven years” (Oct. 4). The Maryland Department of Health’s report on statewide overdoses reveals some positive results for 2023. Specifically, Harford County had no fatal overdoses for people over age 55 and older, while at the state level, this older age group…

In his recent column, “Armstrong Williams: Politics is a sideshow” (Oct. 4), Armstrong Williams, part-owner of The Baltimore Sun, offers up a Sunday sermon for all. Unfortunately, he claims that the election has no bearing on our lives. As he puts it, children will still go to school, weddings will still take place, gravity works…

By MELANIE LIDMAN, Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — At a busy Tel Aviv entertainment district, diners spill into outdoor seating and clink glasses as music fills the air. There’s laughter, there’s life. But all around the patrons, staring down from lampposts and shop windows, are pictures of hostages held in Gaza, stark reminders that Israel is…

The person injured in Sunday’s apartment complex fire in Lansdowne was a child, the Baltimore County Fire Department said in an emailed statement. Demetrice Brown, a resident of the complex on the 2900 block of Lakebrook Circle, said the victim was a 7-year-old who had been visiting her apartment for a sleepover with her 9-year-old…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate the law in Texas, which has one of the country’s strictest abortion bans. Without detailing their reasoning, the justices kept in place a lower court order that said hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations that would violate…

Twenty-three years after Islamic terrorists used airplanes to conduct the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, the federal agency created to protect Americans from national security threats “cannot ensure they are keeping high-risk noncitizens without identification from entering the country.” The potentially high-risk noncitizens are being flown on domestic flights without identification, creating a public…

Fire officials are investigating a Sunday morning fire at the Full Moon Bar and Grill in Reisterstown. At 9:53 a.m., crews with the Baltimore County Fire Department were at the restaurant, the department said on the social media platform X. They arrived to discover fire showing from the roof. Approximately seven minutes later, department officials…

The Ravens (2-2) and Bengals (1-3) face off Sunday afternoon in a key AFC North matchup at Paycor Stadium in Cincinnati. Baltimore has won two straight over the Cowboys and Bills, while Cincinnati is coming off its first win of the season over the Panthers. Follow along here for live coverage. Top Featured Tags: -…

The natural reaction would have been to recoil, from the sheer brutality of the Hamas attacks on Israel almost one year ago and the now widening war that it spawned. “That’s exactly what the haters want to happen, for us to become insular, fearful, paranoid,” said Rabbi Daniel Burg of Beth Am in Baltimore’s Reservoir…

Police are investigating a shooting in Fells Point that left a 16-year-old and a 19-year-old injured early Saturday. Around 1:56 a.m., Central District patrol officers were in the area of South Broadway when they heard gunfire coming from the 600 block, according to the Baltimore Police Department. Once they arrived, officers found a 19-year-old female…

With all the havoc, destruction and deaths resulting from Hurricane Helene, one would think the administration’s priority would not be an expensive plane ride for a 20-minute photo op to the Arizona border in attempt to gain some political brownie points after a nearly four-year absence (“Harris inspects fence at US-Mexico border as she works…

Basil G. Howard, who served during World War II in the British Merchant Marine and was later an executive with J.H. Filbert Co., died Sept. 2 from cancer at Stella Maris Hospice. The Mays Chapel resident was 102. Basil George Howard, son of Charles James Howard, a chief accountant, and Maud Bessie Sturgeon, a bookkeeper,…

Several feet below the mudline of the Patapsco River, underneath the spot where the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed, sits a water main owned by the city of Baltimore. The pipe is 6 feet in diameter, runs parallel to the felled span and could be key to the city’s success in its lawsuit against the…

The man accused of killing Bel Air mother Rachel Morin won’t face trial until at least April, a Harford County judge ruled during a Friday hearing. The decision came after the defense team representing Victor Martinez-Hernandez said there was a “voluminous” amount of evidence to review ahead of the trial, which had been scheduled to…

I have good news for Ed Whitesell of Arbutus, the author of the recent letter to the editor, “Can Harris be a president to Americans who oppose abortion?” (Sept. 28). Yes! With Vice President Kamala Harris as president, everyone can follow their beliefs. That’s truly fair — and very American. With a pro-abortion rights position,…