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The Maryland Department of the Environment has issued an air quality advisory for June 20, the first day of summer.  On top of the soaring temperatures and muggy humidity, officials ...

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Today marks the start of summer, and it's going to feel like it. The Baltimore area is under a heat advisory from noon today to 10 p.m. Thursday. The National Weather Service warns t...

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News reports in recent weeks have focused on violent crimes reportedly being committed by people high on a synthetic drug under the guise of bath salts. As recently as this week, the...

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Citing its "stable organization," a Dundalk mental health nonprofit will affiliate with the Towson-based Sheppard Pratt Health System, the organizations announced Thursday. The agree...

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Baltimore County's Design Review Panel on Wednesday gave its blessing to a planned Patient First clinic in northern Towson. The site, in the 900 block of York Road, was most recently...

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  There are few better markers of good health than running a 5K. And over more than two decades of a Greater Baltimore Medical Center fundraiser, doctors and nurses in the hospi...

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  Heather Collins was concerned about the snakes her mother had seen in her backyard while picking flowers. But when she called a local exterminator to come in, he laughed and told h...

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When Christopher Schardt lost his wife Ginny to breast cancer in 2002, all the fight that had been in him and their family and friends didn't go away. "You spend every day, every hou...