 Friday, May 18 Justify is a 1-2 favorite heading into Saturday's 143rd Preakness Stakes. Is he worth all the hype? |
| Gary Tuggle, 54, takes over as Baltimore’s top cop as the city stands at an inflection point: facing historic violence, under a federal consent decree, and struggling to climb out of a series of police scandals, including the resignation of his predecessor amid federal criminal tax charges. |
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| Baltimore is building some of the nation’s best scientists who are shaking up it means to be in the field. The Baltimore Sun went inside the Meyerhoff Scholars program at the University of Maryland Baltimore County to learn what is their secret sauce. |
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| Valerie Ervin will not appear on Democratic primary ballots as a candidate for governor, the state elections administration confirmed in a court filing Friday, and officials say they’re still figuring out how voters will cast a ballot for her. |
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| Adam Jones, center fielder for the Orioles, placed the winning bid for the property during a Saturday auction at the house, said Wendy Oliver, business development director for DeCaro Auctions International, which handled the auction. |
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| At least one gunman opened fire at a Houston-area high school Friday, killing eight to 10 people, most of them students, authorities said. |
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| An unsettled weather pattern is forecast to persist this week, bringing frequent rain chances through the 143rd Preakness Stakes on Saturday. But the heaviest rain is likely to pass before revelers gather at Pimlico Race Course. |
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| Saints Stephen and James Evangelical Lutheran Church, which has operated in one form or another at the corner of Hanover and Hamburg streets in South Baltimore for 166 years, will hold its final service Sunday. |
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| A victim of the Gun Trace Task Force who testified at the corruption trial of two police officers was re-arrested by Baltimore Police this week in a bust that netted $138,000 cash, two guns and drugs, court records show. |
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| Kaymarie Kreidel, a head outrider for the Maryland Jockey Club, has a Nigerian Dwarf Goat named Butterscotch that keeps her — and her eight horses — company at the track. |
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