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Spring means getting outside, maybe noshing on a chicken wing or 15. from The Baltimore Banner

Get your steps in this week at either the Light the Night 5K or the inaugural Oakland Mills Middle School Fun Run. from The Baltimore Banner

I staunchly believe that almost everybody has a Baltimore story, whether it happened to you, your brother, your boss’s wife or that girl you went to college with who played a waitress on “The Wire” that time. from The Baltimore Banner

From festivals and concerts to theater performances and art exhibitions, Baltimore is jam-packed this weekend with reasons to leave the house. Grab some friends — or plan to make some new ones — and get out there. from The Baltimore Banner

On the surface, the bill sounds cut and dried. from The Baltimore Banner

President Donald Trump has upended Ardena Githara’s career twice. from The Baltimore Banner

The votes were cast, the session was adjourned and Del. Aletheia McCaskill still was absorbing what had happened: Maryland lawmakers approved creating a commission to study reparations for slavery. from The Baltimore Banner

Before the game even began, Brandon Hyde relived his last experience with Garrett Crochet on the mound for the opposing team. He sat in the interview room and rattled off what he remembered — a pitcher’s duel between Kyle Bradish and Crochet, when the latter was still with the Chicago White Sox. from The Baltimore Banner

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced far-reaching new tariffs on nearly all U.S. trading partners — a 34% tax on imports from China and 20% on the European Union, among others — that threaten to dismantle much of the architecture of the global economy and trigger broader trade wars. from The Baltimore Banner

Citing his “poor and rapidly declining health,” a federal judge sentenced former top malpractice attorney Stephen L. Snyder to three years of probation with six months of home confinement for attempting to extort $25 million from the University of Maryland Medical System. from The Baltimore Banner

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kevin Willard deadpanned that — no, he hadn’t heard the laundry list of complaints lodged against him by Maryland fans and former players and, well, the list goes on — that he threw his program under the bus and then happily got behind the wheel to steamroll over their carcass all while the Terrapins made a run to the Sweet 16. from The Baltimore Banner

Six months ago, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore packed into a crowded multipurpose room at a West Baltimore community center and set an ambitious goal: knocking 5,000 vacant homes off the city’s tally in five years. from The Baltimore Banner

College students and religious leaders gathered at the Johns Hopkins University campus on Wednesday afternoon to call on Gov. Wes Moore, Attorney General Anthony Brown and state legislators to protect students from federal immigration officers. from The Baltimore Banner

COLLEGE PARK — University of Maryland President Darryll Pines has gotten to know Buzz Williams pretty well over the past week. from The Baltimore Banner

One Baltimore restaurant advanced Wednesday to the finals of the James Beard Foundation’s national competition honoring excellence in the culinary industry. from The Baltimore Banner

An Anne Arundel County Police officer allegedly chased a man four miles into Howard County in August and then fled the scene when the man died in an accident, state prosecutors say. from The Baltimore Banner

A pet housing bill of Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s administration has shed its skin with just days left in the 90-day legislative session, giving a new, less-ambitious proposal a chance at passage. from The Baltimore Banner

A House of Delegates committee reluctantly moved a bill Wednesday that would slash the amount of money that childhood sexual-abuse survivors can win if they sue under the Child Victims Act, a landmark 2023 law that removed the statute of limitations on such claims. from The Baltimore Banner

When working a side job some years back, Fire Lt. Raymond Vargas Jr. was witness to a car crash. from The Baltimore Banner

Republican lawmakers proposed new campaign fundraising restrictions Wednesday, targeting Gov. Wes Moore on the same day he planned to attend an event for his federal political action committee. from The Baltimore Banner