A landmark Towson office tower was recently sold by an entity linked to Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos for $13.55 million. Court Towers at 210 W. Pennsylvania Ave. changed hands in early August to Mid-Atlantic Properties Inc., a Towson-based investment group and development firm that owns several other Towson properties. The cash deal closed last week after brokers from JLL, who represented the Angelos family, received several bids.

Members of Congress jetted off for the August recess without a plan in place to avoid a partial government shutdown when the new fiscal year begins Oct. 1 — and the lawmakers who write spending bills acknowledge that it’s a real possibility, given deep divisions. The stalemate stems from a split among House Republicans about how much the government should spend and whether the bills should be filled with far-right policy objectives.

Some Baltimore City Council members want a citywide ban on external gas regulators amid a long-standing dispute between some residents and Baltimore Gas and Electric. While the utility claims external gas regulators are safe, some city homeowners disagree and complain that installation of the devices damages their houses.

A Maryland congressman is calling for investigators to look into the COVID-19 test scheme involving Medicare. Maryland U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-District 7, told the 11 News I-Team that he wants the Department of Justice, FBI and others to work with Congress to track down those who are sending unwanted COVID-19 tests to people across Maryland and charging the costs to Medicare.

Federal regulators have chosen three new areas that could host offshore wind farms off the Mid-Atlantic East Coast, including sites off Ocean City, Virginia Beach and the Delaware beaches. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is “committed” to hold an auction for what it calls the Central Atlantic by August 2024, determining which companies get to lease the selected areas to construct wind farms, said bureau spokesman John Filostrat in a statement.

Here is the most important thing to know about the new bathrooms at BWI Thurgood Marshall International Airport. With a whoosh, the toilets give you a very satisfying flush. That’s important because, as with many things in life, you want a flush guaranteed to wash away your troubles. For men at least, it’s almost as important that the urinals don’t splash. There is nothing more annoying in a public bathroom — OK, maybe there are a few things — than being flecked with water or worse when the rinse flows with force down a urinal.

For years, Kahlil Nottingham washed windows for tips.Squeegeeing was a means for Nottingham, 19, to earn money, take care of himself and develop independence, he said. He’d started washing windows in 2017, after spending a night in a juvenile detention holding cell for trying to steal a woman’s purse. He decided to try making money a different way — first, by selling water bottles, then by squeegeeing. With an income, he’d be able to buy things he wanted on his own, without having to ask a parent for help.

Montgomery County will be offering funding support for independently owned and operated businesses with 20 or fewer employees impacted by the Purple Line construction through Phase III of its Purple Line Light rail grants program. Eligible businesses can start submitting applications on Aug. 15. The County’s Business Center will host informational webinars on the program on Aug. 29, 30 and 31 in English, Spanish, and Amharic languages respectively at 8070 Georgia Ave. in Silver Spring.

To Zac Blanchard, an assistant football coach at Digital Harbor High School in Federal Hill, the proposed Red Line could be “the difference between kids showing up to first period or not.” To Bakari Height — a Gay Street resident who relies on mass transit, and a transit organizer — development of the east-west line is the difference between him staying in Baltimore or moving out of the city. “If this doesn’t work, I can’t stay here,” Height said.

A couple of weeks ago, dancer Taylor Fikes had a kind of “Ask Me Anything” session at Columbia’s Harriet Tubman Cultural Center to thank the community she calls her “village” — that’s supported her from her days as a student at Baltimore School for the Arts to her present position in the company of Romania’s Opera Nationala din Iasi.