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January 2, 2019

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New Year's Eve Duck Drop

Tuesday, Jan 1

The duck was dropped at the Concord Point Lighthouse Park in Havre de Grace on New Year's Eve.

The top stories in Harford County in 2018

Harford County was once again under national scrutiny in 2018 after its third mass shooting in as many years. It might have been the biggest story in Harford County in 2018, but there were others that resonated with readers as well.

A look back at Aegis sports for 2018

The year in sports, as shown on The Aegis sports pages or on the website, was an emotional one for many, both of happiness and sadness as the year rolled along.

Baltimore region says farewell to wettest year on record: 71.82 inches of precipitation

The new year was greeted Tuesday morning with mild temperatures throughout the Baltimore region — 59 degrees was recorded at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport at 8 a.m., and highs for the day were expected to reach 61 degrees.

Lamar Jackson will be the youngest QB to start a playoff game, and that's not a bad thing

While fresh-faced quarterbacks have struggled in postseason play, it hasn’t exactly been a case of the young and the feckless.

Baltimore's first homicides of 2019 reported Tuesday evening

Two men were fatally shot Tuesday in Baltimore's first homicides of 2019. They came amid a spate of violence that brought the city's 2018 homicide total to 309.

Johns Hopkins-led New Horizons mission successfully captures data from distant Ultima Thule; first images coming Wednesday

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft successfully captured images and data as it flew past an object nicknamed Ultima Thule early Tuesday morning, scientists confirmed. But they won't get their first close-up glimpse of the edge of the solar system until Wednesday afternoon.

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