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 An overnight tornado warning and tornado watch had been lifted for most of Maryland on Monday morning as severe storms made their way out of the area, though high winds — with gusts up to 50 mph — were expected to continue. |  | |
 Hoping to pay final respects to Maryland House Speaker Michael E. Busch, who died Sunday while undergoing treatment for pneumonia? Here are the details. |  | |
 The Old Grandstand — the last remaining historic section of Pimlico Race Course — is being shut down a month before the upcoming Preakness Stakes after an engineering firm determined that 6,670 seats in the open-air seating area “is no longer suitable to sustain that level of load bearing weight.” |  | |
 After Baltimore’s wettest year on record, housing advocates are seeking more protections for low-income tenants battling mold in their rental homes — and a city councilman is calling for a hearing on the problem. |  | |
 Del. Maggie McIntosh, the Baltimore Democrat who chairs the powerful House Appropriations Committee, is close to shoring up enough votes to become speaker, several sources with knowledge of the vote-counting said over the weekend. |  | |
 The latest court ruling shows new wrinkles in the MASN dispute between Orioles and the Washington Nationals. Tuesday’s order by a New York justice concluded that Major League Baseball might have had a financial interest in the Nationals, making it “a potentially conflicted party.” |  | |
 A man was shot to death and a woman was injured in Baltimore Sunday, following three nonfatal shootings in the city Saturday night, police said. |  | |
 A clinical trial at the University of Maryland School of Medicine is the first of its kind in the U.S. to use focused ultrasound to treat neuropathic pain. |  | |
 "His biggest advice to me was don't look at your stat line for a little while," new Orioles starter Dan Straily said of what he learned from rotation-mate Alex Cobb, who also signed late in the spring last season. |  | |
 Steve Johnson recaps the Season 8 premiere of "Game of Thrones." |  | |
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