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Wednesday, Dec 26 Howard Community College was formally awarded a state grant of $9.8 million last week through the Maryland Board of Public Works as part of an overall $18 million package approved for capital projects at five higher educational organizations across Maryland. | | | |
| A state prison system spokesman says an inmate at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women is expected to be charged with arson. Authorities found a lighter in her cell after a fire broke out, causing three correctional officers to be treated Sunday night for smoke inhalation. |
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| What's proved to be a year of seismic changes for the Orioles on and off the field still packed in plenty of actual baseball over the required 162 games, even if it might have been nice for them to mercifully end by about halfway through. |
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| The Ravens are six-point favorites over the Cleveland Browns ahead of their must-win regular-season finale Sunday, according to most Las Vegas betting lines. |
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| Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson still has flaws but is far better than the rookie who stepped onto the practice field in the spring. |
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| Marlene Greenebaum, a Baltimore-area philanthropist and cancer survivor who with her husband, Stewart, founded the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, died in Pikesville on Dec. 23. She was 80. |
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| Using $1.1 million in federal money, the Chesapeake Conservancy hopes to expand its data-driven maps of land and water to help others more precisely target opportunities for environmental restoration. |
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| For the first time in Maryland, private donations that fund inaugural parties for the governor will have to be made public. |
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