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January 2, 2019

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Howard County bird watchers ring in the new year with chirps and caws

Tuesday, Jan 1

Members of the Howard County Bird Club went to bed early on New Year’s Eve so they’d wake in time to kick off the new year with a morning bird-watching trek at the Howard County Conservancy's Mount Pleasant. For passionate birders, New Year’s Eve’s midnight fireworks over the Inner Harbo

Glenelg senior Wande Owens caps career as Howard County football Offensive Player of Year

For the second time in three years, Howard County rushing king Glenelg senior running back Wande Owens is the football Offensive Player of the Year.

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.

It wasn't all bad: Good news in Baltimore in 2018

2018 brought a few happy headlines to Baltimore Sun readers. Cal Ripken, Jr. found love, Amy Sherald painted Michelle Obama, the Bay got better and “Mr. Oriole” came back.

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