Races to Watch
Displays percentage of vote as distributed among the top candidates in each race.
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Baltimore City Mayor Democratic
Baltimore City Comptroller Democratic
Baltimore City Council President Democratic
Partial in-person returns in the Democratic mayoral primary in Baltimore showed former Mayor Sheila Dixon’s lead holding at about 30%.
An error on ballots mailed to voters in Baltimore’s District 1 led to inaccurate results that cannot be counted, state election officials announced Wednesday.
For the first time in two decades, incumbent Comptroller Joan Pratt has a serious Democratic primary challenge from City Councilman Bill Henry. The race could be decided by a razor-thin margin.
Initial returns in the race for Baltimore City Council president showed state Del. Nick Mosby with a strong lead, though thousands of votes must still be counted. Mosby was considered one of three leading Democratic contenders for the city’s No. 2 position, along with former City Councilman Carl Stokes and City Councilwoman Shannon Sneed.
Maryland officials reported Wednesday the state has confirmed 807 new cases of the coronavirus. But hospitalizations and overall positivity rates are at their lowest in months.
Demonstrations against police brutality and the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis moved out toward the suburbs Tuesday with peaceful crowds lining Roland Avenue in North Baltimore, marching in Columbia, and gathering in Annapolis.
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Two males were killed and three others injured in four nighttime shooting incidents, Baltimore Police wrote in emails shortly before 5 a.m. Wednesday.
When former nursing colleagues and students started reaching out as the coronavirus pandemic took off, Tara Ryan created a service to boost their morale and give them a place to talk about work on the front lines.
Many voters flocked to in-person polling places in Baltimore and several counties Tuesday, causing long lines and delayed results during Maryland’s first statewide election attempted largely by mail.
Wes Unseld, who won Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player honors as a rookie with the Baltimore Bullets, died Tuesday morning after what his family called “lengthy health battles, most recently with pneumonia.” He was 74.
Baltimore’s recent protests against the death of George Floyd have been largely peaceful, but city police have been aided by additional state resources.
Members of the Maryland National Guard will be sent to Washington, D.C., to help quell violence there, a Guard official said Monday.
The Ravens have held camp at their team facility in Baltimore County since 2011.
Five years after Freddie Gray, Kwame Rose among those who helped quell protest violence in Baltimore
The entire day of protest in Baltimore had been peaceful. As other cities burned for days, thousands in a city everyone expected to blow up again were rallying against police brutality and racism in expressions that were often deeply painful but measured, sometimes even joyous.
Kweisi Mfume, Maryland’s newest congressman, won Tuesday’s Democratic primary to secure his hold on the Baltimore-area seat long held by his late friend, Elijah Cummings.
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The Warriors are going to be significantly ahead of the curve in terms of rest. Just the process of conditioning takes it out of the body and mind. The stress of playing in a COVID-19-generated bubble is hard on the mind and stress is hard on the body. The Warriors are exempt from all this.
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People want to vote in person, and other things we learned from Tuesday's primary in Maryland.
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Maryland's lieutenant governor called on Maryland State Board of Elections Director Linda Lamone to resign, citing problem with Baltimore's primary returns.
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The moves come the day after Republican Gov. Larry Hogan lifted more coronavirus-related restrictions statewide, including on outdoor dining.
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In Maryland, the fuel crisis peaked in February 1974, when the shortage froze traffic around Baltimore. Seething drivers waited in queues, some five miles long, for hours in what The Baltimore Sun called “bread lines on wheels,” hoping to fill up; too often, stations ran out of gas. Fights broke out, station owners were threatened and some began toting guns.
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