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In downtown Annapolis, Terran Hicks Sr. boards up glass at the White House/Black Market clothing store. Storm damage often closes businesses, cutting off worker pay and tax revenue.

Md. battens down for Isabel

August 21, 2019 at 4:00 p.m.

Beneath deceptively clear, blue skies, Marylanders pushed their preparations for Hurricane Isabel yesterday, securing homes, businesses and boats, and rushing their harvests to beat the heavy rains and gales expected...

West Nile found in mosquitoes in Arundel Co.

August 21, 2019 at 3:59 p.m.

Mosquitoes trapped near Cox Creek in northern Anne Arundel County have tested positive for the West Nile virus, the first appearance in the state this year of a disease that...

State is likely to halt testing of dead birds for West Nile

August 21, 2019 at 3:59 p.m.

Maryland health officials say they may stop testing dead birds for the West Nile virus this year because of federal budget cuts and the knowledge that last year the disease...

Water limits lifted for city

August 21, 2019 at 3:57 p.m.

Remember the drought? Well, it's over. On the day when winter turned to spring -- with flood warnings out and heavy rain washing away the last of February's snow --...

Despite snow, city drought restrictions still in place

August 21, 2019 at 3:57 p.m.

A record snowfall is still gurgling down the drain. Maryland's streams are swollen, and the water is rising in rural wells. Almost 10 billion gallons of runoff has poured since...

Grasmick allowed to waive two school days

August 21, 2019 at 3:57 p.m.

Even as another snowstorm headed toward Maryland, the state school board gave its superintendent yesterday the authority to shorten the academic year by two days to help local school systems...

A large portion of the roof of the B&O Railroad Museum in downtown Baltimore lies in ruins after collapsing Monday.

It really was 'the Big One'

August 21, 2019 at 3:56 p.m.

What felt like the worst snowstorm ever was indeed the Big One. As Marylanders continued to dig out from beneath the wintry onslaught that began late Friday, resumed with a...

Sunny, a 1 1/2 year-old yellow lab, bursts onto a freshly shoveled walk in Rodgers Forge Sunday as her owner Jennifer McKenzie looks on.

As snowfall begins to melt, flood dangers become concern

March 29, 2019 at 6:51 p.m.

Now that the snow has stopped falling, weather forecasters are looking ahead warily at the danger of flooding as temperatures begin to rise and rain approaches later in the week....

Storm can be traced to Pacific rains

August 21, 2019 at 3:56 p.m.

The three-day Presidents Day weekend storm in Maryland had its origins in a Pacific rainstorm that soaked the Los Angeles area with torrential rains, then crossed the country and collided...

Design flaw blamed in Contour breakup

August 22, 2019 at 5:19 p.m.

The chief of the NASA team investigating the loss of the $159 million Contour comet rendezvous mission last summer said yesterday that faulty design was the most likely reason the...

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