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Gov. Wes Moore: Maryland must reckon with structural challenges facing state economy, budget 08/20/2023 12:15am • Listing concerns about Maryland's future economic outlook, Gov. Wes Moore (D) made it clear to state and county officials Saturday that there may be some hard fiscal decisions coming up in the next state budget, both for them and for himself as governor. "It's going to take the discipline of elec Local governments are spending billions of pandemic relief funds, but some report few specifics 08/19/2023 11:25am • Joplin officials say they have big plans for $13.8 million of pandemic relief funds the tornado-ravaged southwestern Missouri city received under a two-year-old federal law. Yet the latest federal records show none of the money has been spent — or even budgeted. In fact, about 6,300 cities and How to negotiate debt with your credit card company 08/19/2023 10:45am • If you haven't been paying off your credit cards in full every month, you're not alone. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, U.S. household credit card debt increased by $144 billion between the second quarter of 2022 and the second quarter of 2023. Depending on how much debt you ha Md. lawmakers, regulators already contemplating changes to cannabis law 08/19/2023 09:48am • Maryland’s cannabis industry is less than two months old and lawmakers and regulators are already contemplating tweaks in the coming General Assembly session. Since July, the new recreational adult use industry has recorded sales of almost $90 million. The expectation is that sales will surpass Brazil's Bolsonaro accused by ex-aide's lawyer of ordering sale of jewelry given as official gift 08/18/2023 10:51pm • BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Then Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro ordered an aide to sell undeclared luxury jewelry received as a gift and funnel the money to him, a lawyer for the aide charged Friday. Cezar Bittencourt, who represents Bolsonaro's former right-hand man, Lt. Col. Mauro Cid, said his The NFL's relaxed jersey rules are not for nothing. Meet the players who now wear No. 0 08/18/2023 07:54pm • EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — Marcus Davenport was on his way to meet his best man for some day-before wedding preparations when he took a call from his new head coach Kevin O'Connell. The Minnesota Vikings had just drafted Jordan Addison. Call it first-round privilege, but the rookie wide receiver had worn Biden stays mum on Justice Dept. decision to name special counsel in Hunter Biden probe 08/18/2023 07:02pm • CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP) — President Joe Biden is keeping mum about Attorney General Merrick Garland’s decision to name a special counsel in the investigation of his son Hunter Biden. Speaking at a news conference Friday at the conclusion of his Camp David summit with South Korean President Yoon Suk No death penalty for a Utah mom accused of killing her husband, then writing a kid book about death 08/18/2023 07:00pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against a Utah mother who wrote a children’s book about coping with grief after her husband’s death and is now accused of fatally poisoning him. Prosecutors say Kouri Richins, 33, poisoned Eric Richins, 39, by slipping five time Republicans gather in city where Trump was indicted but mention former president gingerly, if at all 08/18/2023 06:25pm • ATLANTA (AP) — For much of the Republican presidential field, Donald Trump is the candidate who must not be named — or at least not criticized too harshly. Multiple GOP White House contenders took the stage Friday in Atlanta, the city where the former president was most recently indicted and whe Rosalynn Carter marks 96th birthday at home with the former president, butterflies and ice cream 08/18/2023 06:25pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Rosalynn Carter celebrated her 96th birthday at home Friday with her husband, former President Jimmy Carter, and other family members, while the surrounding community of Plains, Georgia, honored the former first lady's years of public health advocacy. The latest milestone comes as R Florida ethics commission chair can't work simultaneously for Disney World governing district 08/18/2023 05:03pm • The chair of Florida's ethics commission has an ethics problem, but it's due to working at The Mouse rather than being a rat. Glen Gilzean, the new administrator of Walt Disney World’s governing district, can't continue to work in his new job and chair the Florida Commission on Ethics at the same Old Landover Mall location in Prince George's Co. could become data center if not selected as FBI HQ site 08/18/2023 01:32pm • The owners of the Washington Nationals plan to transform the site of the old Landover Mall in Prince George's County, Maryland, into a data center if it is not selected as the new location for the FBI headquarters, NBC Washington reported. The 80-acre property near FedEx field, owned by the Lerne Trump PAC foots the bill for private eye in Manhattan cases 08/18/2023 09:14am • ▶ Watch Video: Trump PAC pays bill for private investigator in Manhattan court cases As Donald Trump's New York legal troubles began to mount this spring, his lawyers and political action committee sought the help of Sean Crowley, a local private eye.Save Ameri Agreement central to a public dispute between Michael Oher and the Tuohys is being questioned 08/18/2023 01:09am • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — In 2004, when Michael Oher was a coveted college football recruit, the 18-year-old high schooler agreed in court to allow the Memphis couple he lived with to make decisions for him about signing contracts and any medical issues. Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy had taken in Oher, Gallen beats the Padres again, Pham and Moreno homer in the Diamondbacks' 3-1 victory 08/18/2023 01:08am • SAN DIEGO (AP) — Top NL Cy Young Award contender Zac Gallen beat the San Diego Padres for the second straight start and Tommy Pham and Gabriel Moreno homered to give the Arizona Diamondbacks a 3-1 victory Thursday night in the opener of a four-game series between teams trying to keep their wild-ca