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 Sunday, Jan 27 Saturday's Orioles FanFest marked the public beginning of a new era of Orioles baseball under new executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias and manager Brandon Hyde. And it just so happens to be driven at this point by the main commodity the event is built on: hope. |   | |
| Park rangers opened the Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine Sunday to visitors as the 35-day partial government shutdown came to an end last week. The gates to the park at 2400 East Fort Avenue were unlocked at their normal time, 9 a.m. |
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| The percentage of children entering kindergarten ready to learn is inching up in Maryland, although still less than half are deemed ready. |
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| Scenes from the 2019 MSP Polar Bear Plunge at Sandy Point State Park. |
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| Jim Margraff went on to rewrite the university’s record book as a four-year starting quarterback, and later embarked on a 29-year head coaching career that by 2014 made him the all-time winningest coach in both school and state history. |
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| A man was fatally stabbed in a home in East Baltimore early Saturday morning, according to Baltimore Police. |
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| Shooting victim in Baltimore's Westport neighborhood dies. |
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| It was the newness of it all that made Orioles FanFest feel so different Saturday at the Baltimore Convention Center. |
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| Near the end of the Orioles’ season-ticket holders’ Q&A with executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias and manager Brandon Hyde on Saturday at FanFest, a longtime Orioles fan boiled down their greatest challenge as simply as anyone could. |
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| Here’s what you need to know about the four Ravens in Sunday’s Pro Bowl. |
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| Leading by 11 points in the first half and by five with a little under 10 minutes left in the game, No. 13 Maryland is run over by Illinois 78-67, Saturday at Madison Square Garden. |
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