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 Tuesday, Jan 15 Gaming meets community at Xanadu Games at Laurel Park, where gamers connect over "fighting games" and weekly competitions. Xanadu Games moved from Arbutus to a new facility at Laurel Park last March and seeks to draw more customers there, according to the president of the Maryland Jockey Club. |   | |
| An inch or two of snow and a glaze of ice are forecast across Maryland from Thursday night into Friday morning, especially to the west of the Interstate 95 corridor. And then meteorologists are still watching a chance for heavy snow, or heavy rain, over the weekend. |
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| Fatal overdoses continue their grim climb in Maryland, with fentanyl linked to the bulk of the deaths. |
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| Maryland’s judiciary fielded 302 requests to remove firearms from individuals over the first three months the state’s new “red flag” gun safety law went into effect — including five cases involving threats against schools. Four concerned what one sheriff called "significant threats" to schools. |
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| The Glenelg Gladiators varsity wrestling team remained undefeated with a 55-5 win over the host Hammond Golden Bears in a Howard County wrestling dual meet on Tuesday. |
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| Louis B. Weckesser, a retired Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory engineer and volunteer, died Jan. 1 from complications of dementia at Harmony Hall Assisted Living in Columbia. He was 90. |
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| John McMonegal Park Jr., a Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory mathematician, died of heart disease Jan. 2 at Brighton Gardens of Columbia. He was 89 and lived in Columbia. |
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| Through the first half of the regular season, take a look at the top Howard County's girls basketball offensive standouts. This photo gallery showcases all the public school players currently averaging at least five points a game during the 2018-2019 season. |
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