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 Wednesday, Jan 2 Jim Margraff, the all-time winningest coach in Johns Hopkins football history, has died at age 58. |   | |
| Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski announced on Wednesday several new members of his leadership team — including naming former Baltimore police spokesman T.J. Smith as press secretary. |
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| Maryland’s Board of Public Works has unanimously voted down a proposal to approve a pipeline carrying fracked gas through three miles of western Maryland — after years of environmentalists and concerned neighbors fighting the project. Board members cited concern for the environment. |
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| Ultima Thule, the distant object NASA's New Horizons spacecraft explored on New Year's Day, is actually a pair of spheres that have been fused together by gravity, scientists revealed Wednesday. The Johns Hopkins-led mission could already be helping to confirm theories about how the planets formed. |
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| More than half of Baltimore’s 309 homicide victims in 2018 were shot in the head, according to the police department’s annual homicide analysis released Wednesday. |
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| The new Congress assembles Thursday in Washington. Here is a look at Maryland congressional delegation members entering the 116th U.S. Congress. |
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| Hundreds more Marylanders are seeking unemployment insurance benefits related to the federal government shutdown. As the funding impasse reached its 12th day Wednesday, the state said it's received 462 such benefit applications from Dec. 22 through Dec. 31. |
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| Hikeen Crampton started the week without tickets for this Sunday's playoff game in Baltimore between the Ravens and the Los Angeles Charges. By Wednesday, a bizarre chain of events landed him two free tickets to the Ravens first playoff appearance since 2014. |
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| Justin Tucker picked up his franchise-record ninth weekly award after successfully booting all four field goals in Sunday’s playoff-clinching win over the Cleveland Browns. |
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| The Orioles named Koby Perez their senior director of international scouting Wednesday, adding a head to a department new general manager Mike Elias hopes will be an area of growth for the Orioles. |
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