The clubhouse was silent but for the smack of hands and hugs. A slow procession was making its way around the room — Adley Rutschman and James McCann and Ryan Mountcastle on the inside of the column, circling around to every locker and to every teammate. In the opposing clubhouse, music was blaring and a cheer could be heard while manager Brandon Hyde eulogized the Orioles’ season-ending loss.

The City of Annapolis reached a new record for the most flooding events experienced in the city’s history, according to new data from the Annapolis Office of Emergency Management. The city has flooded 74 times in the past 8 months, according to data provided to The Capital Gazette from OEM. This is nearly ten more than the previous record of 65 set in 2019.

Maryland’s trucking industry is feeling the effects of the port workers’ strike at the Port of Baltimore. The Maryland Motor Truck Association told WJZ that terminals are essentially closed with only a few trucks able to pick up cargo that was dropped off before the strike. Truck companies were given extended hours last week to remove cargo from the terminal grounds at the Port of Baltimore.

We made some noise about it in 2016. During her campaign for president, Hillary Clinton’s gender was much discussed — by her opponent, who accused her of “constantly playing the woman card.” By pundits wondering whether the nation was ready to elect a woman. By the candidate herself, who touted her own nomination as “a milestone in our nation’s march toward a more perfect union.”

Since 2013, every county in Maryland has been permitted to legislate and fund a public financing program that enables candidates to run for executive and council offices on the strength of their ideas and not on the depth of their donors’ pockets, with small contributions from everyday citizens matched with county tax dollars.

A new state law will require more Marylanders with drunk driving charges to blow into a breath analyzer before starting their cars. The change went into effect Tuesday and is expected to add around 5,600 drivers into the state’s Ignition Interlock Program, according to the Maryland Department of Transportation. “The fact is, drunk drivers are responsible for one-third all of Maryland traffic fatalities,” Del. Vanessa Atterbeary, a Howard County Democrat and chief sponsor of the bill, said in a news release.

As western North Carolina navigates the destruction in the wake of Hurricane Helene, Baltimore is readying a team of 911 operators and emergency dispatchers to potentially assist the state. “As a city who has seen our fair share of significant emerging situations and challenges, I know how meaningful support from other jurisdictions can be,” Mayor Brandon Scott said at a news conference Wednesday following the city’s Board of Estimates’ meeting.

Baltimore Police launched a citywide initiative last month focusing on unregistered motorized scooters due to increased traffic violations and crime involving illegal ones, the department said. Unregistered vehicles such as mopeds, minibikes and all-terrain vehicles have been targeted to a greater extent by Baltimore Police since mid-September, according to a Friday news release.

Hagerstown motorists have an opportunity to share feedback about traffic concerns, including those affecting pedestrians and bicyclists, with local and regional planning officials through a survey that must be completed by Friday. As of Monday morning, 449 people had submitted responses through the survey, said Matt Mullenax, executive director for the Hagerstown/Eastern Panhandle Metropolitan Planning Organization, or HEPMPO.

Long before Amtrak secured billions in federal funding to dig the future Frederick Douglass Tunnel beneath Baltimore, the company made several potentially costly missteps, a government watchdog said this week. Amtrak’s Office of Inspector General said the company in late 2022 initially assigned responsibility for the $6 billion rail expansion to a single person who lacked the resources to oversee a project of such magnitude.