People buying tickets online for concerts, sporting events and other live events in Minnesota will be guaranteed more transparency and protection under a so-called Taylor Swift bill signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Tim Walz. The law, prompted by the frustration a legislator felt at not being able to buy tickets to Swift’s 2023 concert in Minneapolis, will require ticket sellers to disclose all fees up front and prohibit resellers from selling more than one copy of a ticket, among other measures. The law will apply to tickets purchased in...

Several incumbent members of the Baltimore City Council are facing formidable challenges this cycle while other council hopefuls are duking it out for two open seats. Those open seats are the only two guaranteed to be represented by a newcomer next year, a stark difference from four years ago, when nearly a third of the 15-person council turned over. Still, only two incumbent members of the council are running unopposed, while the majority of members are facing at least one challenger. The outcome of the primary often determines the winners...

As a volunteer for the Carroll County Hospital and LifeBridge Health boards, I have observed the challenges Maryland hospitals must deal with trying to provide excellent care in our state’s emergency departments. Reporter Angela Roberts (“A broken system: Report identifies reasons behind long ER wait times in Maryland”) did an excellent job outlining the issues related to the long wait times in the emergency departments of Maryland’s hospitals. I would like to add some observations, suggestions and notes on how our local institutions are trying to meet these challenges. First...

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said that authorities will continue the work of fully reopening the channel. Salvage teams have recovered the body of a sixth construction worker, believed to be the last victim who went missing after the March 26 collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. The victim was identified as 37-year-old Jose Mynor Lopez of Baltimore, Maryland. His body was found on May 7 at the scene of the bridge’s collapse, according to the Key Bridge Response Unified Command. The Maryland State Police, along with an...

Cult filmmaker John Waters is on the mend after a car accident in Maryland led to a brief hospitalization this week. “Since it hurts when I laugh I will have no witty answer about being in a car accident that no one has said was my fault,” Waters, 78, wrote in a statement on Tuesday. “Hope you understand. I’m released from the hospital and all is OK.” The accident occurred on Monday in Timonium, just north of Waters’ native Baltimore, when a 2012 Chevrolet cargo van whose driver ran a...

MARSHFIELD – Stephen Charles Cook of Bailey Island and Marshfield, Maine died at his home on April 29, 2024, after a long battle with diabetes and heart disease. He was Born Oct. 24, 1950, son of Charles Maurice Cook and Elaine Johnson Cook in Bath. Stephen grew up on Bailey Island working at Cooks Lobster Pound and Cooks Lobster House at a very early age and loved the ocean. He was an entrepreneur having started many ventures in his life including selling prints of coastal scenes at the restaurant, writing...

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SALT LAKE CITY — Before the opening of the 2024 Premier Lacrosse League college draft Tuesday afternoon, Utah Archers head coach Chris Bates said it was "probably only a matter of time" before the newly located club began adding homegrown talent to its roster. The former Princeton and Drexel coach was referring primarily to the University of Utah, the state's lone NCAA Division I men's lacrosse program that has won back-to-back ASUN Tournament titles and will open the 2024 NCAA Tournament (12:30 p.m. MDT) Saturday against Duke. "The Utes can...

New Hampshire could become the latest US state to ban child marriage after its House of Representatives passed a bill that would raise the minimum age for marriage to 18. Until 2016, child marriage – defined as a union involving at least one person under 18 years of age – was legal in all 50 states, sometimes only under specific circumstances, such as pregnancy. But since the US signed up to a United Nations plan to end the practice by 2030, 12 states have passed laws banning it, beginning with...