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Long drama over BWI concessions contract may be nearing a close 10/05/2024 09:01pm • The state is moving closer to awarding a lucrative 20-year contract to run the concessions operations at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport 鈥� a year and a half after Gov. Wes Moore (D) pulled the plug on the initial procurement process, which was laden with controversy. Maryland Matters has learned JJ Redick is determined to succeed in the Los Angeles Lakers' audacious coaching experiment 10/05/2024 07:31pm • PALM DESERT, Calif. (AP) 鈥� JJ Redick knows his personal intensity will always turn him into his own harshest critic if he isn't careful, so he vowed to give himself some grace in his self-evaluation as the Los Angeles Lakers ' new head coach. One game into the preseason, Redick is already testing Royals focus on becoming 'Today' show, wearing their mindset on their chests 10/05/2024 05:39pm • NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� The Kansas City Royals credit their transformation to becoming a 鈥淭oday鈥� show, wearing their mindset on their chests. Several Royals work through pregame practice in powder-blue T-shirts with the word 鈥渢oday鈥� in white capital letters. 鈥淛ust take it day by day. No need to Montgomery Co. renters raise alarm over high levels of nitrogen dioxide in apartments 10/05/2024 01:36pm • Leila invites a reporter into her two-bedroom apartment at Cider Mill, an 864-unit complex in Montgomery Village, where she lives with her three school-age children in a largely African immigrant and Latino neighborhood. She walks into her tiny kitchen and fires up all four gas burners on the sto At Israel's cafes and bars, life may seem normal. But the war has cast a pall nationwide 10/05/2024 12:04pm • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) 鈥� At a busy Tel Aviv entertainment district, diners spill into outdoor seating and clink glasses as music fills the air. There鈥檚 laughter, there鈥檚 life. But all around the patrons, staring down from lampposts and shop windows, are pictures of hostages held in Gaza, stark Inside the North Carolina mountain town that Hurricane Helene nearly wiped off the map 10/05/2024 12:01pm • CHIMNEY ROCK VILLAGE, N.C. (AP) 鈥� The stone tower that gave this place its name was nearly a half billion years in the making 鈥� heated and thrust upward from deep in the Earth, then carved and eroded by wind and water. But in just a few minutes, nature undid most of what it has taken humans a c Solar power companies are growing fast in Africa, where 600 million still lack electricity 10/05/2024 12:34am • FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) 鈥� Companies that bring solar power to some of the poorest homes in Central and West Africa are said to be among the fastest growing on a continent whose governments have long struggled to address some of the world's worst infrastructure and the complications of climate San Francisco's first Black female mayor is in a pricey battle for a second term 10/05/2024 12:01am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) 鈥� When London Breed was elected as San Francisco's first Black woman mayor, it was a pinch-me moment for a poor girl from public housing whose ascension showed that no dream was impossible in the progressive, compassionate and equitable city. But the honeymoon was short-lived as Drought has dried a major Amazon River tributary to its lowest level in over 122 years 10/04/2024 10:06pm • MANAUS, Brazil (AP) 鈥� One of the Amazon River鈥檚 main tributaries has dropped to its lowest level ever recorded, Brazil鈥檚 geological service said Friday, reflecting a severe drought that has devastated the Amazon rainforest and other parts of the country. The level of the Negro River at the po Ex- Virginia cop who killed shoplifting suspect acquitted of manslaughter, guilty on firearm charge 10/04/2024 08:09pm • FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) 鈥� A jury on Friday acquitted a former police officer in Virginia of involuntary manslaughter after he fatally shot a shoplifting suspect outside a busy shopping mall. But the jury did convict the former police sergeant, Wesley Shifflett, of reckless handling of a firearm in co When will the power return? Weary Carolinas residents long for relief after Helene's fury 10/04/2024 07:48pm • ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) 鈥� The weary and worn residents of Julianne Johnson's neighborhood in Asheville have been getting by without electricity since Hurricane Helene tore through the Southeast last week and upended their lives. They've been cooking on propane stoves and using dry erase boards to kee Relatives say a whole family was killed in Israel's deadliest West Bank strike since Oct. 7 10/04/2024 03:31pm • TULKAREM, West Bank (AP) 鈥� An Israeli airstrike on a West Bank cafe that the military said targeted Palestinian militants also killed a family of four, including two young children, relatives told The Associated Press on Friday. The strike slammed into a three-story building in the Tulkarem refuge The US could have seen shortages and higher retail prices if a dockworkers strike had dragged on 10/04/2024 01:40pm • NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� U.S. ports from Maine to Texas shut down this week when the union representing about 45,000 dockworkers went on strike for the first time since 1977. The union representing the striking U.S. dockworkers, the International Longshoremen鈥檚 Association, reached a deal Thursday to sus Amid Hurricane Helene's destruction, sports organizations launch relief efforts to aid storm victims 10/04/2024 01:07pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) 鈥� N.C. State football player Davin Vann was on the move, tiptoeing his way between obstacles in the Wolfpack's indoor practice facility midway through a game week. And it had nothing to do with the upcoming visit from Wake Forest. Instead, he stepped carefully through and over b Helene鈥檚 powerful storm surge killed 12 near Tampa. They didn't have to die 10/04/2024 12:39pm • INDIAN ROCKS BEACH, Fla. (AP) 鈥� Aiden Bowles was stubborn, so even as Florida officials told residents of the barrier island north of St. Petersburg that Hurricane Helene's storm surge could be deadly, the retired restaurant owner stayed put. Caregiver Amanda Normand begged the 71-year-old widower