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The risk of clouds and rain on Mother's Day now appears likely to wait until Sunday evening, forecasts show. Until then, Maryland is expected to be under a high-pressure system that will keep highs in the mid- to upper-70s, humidity low and skies clear. A front is expected to move across the region late Sunday, first bringing a chance of thunderstorms and then showers. Clouds are likely, but the chance of precipitation is 20-30 percent. Happy Mother's Day.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's close friend Lisa Harris Jones and her husband, Sean Malone, made almost $150,000 last year lobbying the city on behalf of business clients, according to reports filed with Baltimore's ethics board.  The forms show Lisa Harris Jones earned $77,000 while Malone, her husband and business partner, made $71,750 lobbying at City Hall in 2012, the forms show. While the money is significantly less than the couple makes lobbying at the state level, the city forms show the firm, Harris Jones & Malone LLC, is busy throughout the year advocating for clients' interests in Baltimore.

Police officers in three surrounding counties and the city of Laurel Police are beefing up enforcement of drunk driving this weekend, as St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on Sunday. Laurel Police will conduct a sobriety checkpoint Saturday night, March 16 at Route 1 and Main Street, weather permitting. If it's raining Saturday night, Laurel Police will conduct roving saturation patrols in area, according to Laurel City Spokesman Pete Piringer. Free rides home are available through SoberRide by calling 1-800-200-TAXI (8294)

First a bicyclist was hit by a stray bullet last Sunday afternoon on Kirk Avenue. Then a man was shot in his car several blocks away on East 32nd Street near Lake Montebello early Monday. A half-mile from there, a man police were trying to question barricaded himself in a house Tuesday. With a flare-up of violence in his Northeast Baltimore neighborhood and other parts of the city, Mark Washington jumped into action. "How can we help?" Washington emailed Richard Worley Jr., the police major in his district.

Several hundred Baltimore and state police officers will be saturating the city's bar districts this St. Patrick's Day weekend, looking for drunken drivers and people drinking in the streets, law enforcement officials announced Thursday. "Roadways in and around Baltimore will be heavily patrolled," Baltimore police patrol commander Col. Garnell Green said. "Plan ahead. Have a designated driver. Know where you're going to park and expect large crowds. " Maryland Transportation Administration Police and Maryland State Police are teaming with city officers on a crackdown of rowdy behavior that plagued Canton Square last year, when residents complained of scores of people drinking openly outside bars, breaking glass and leaving trash strewn all around.

Baltimore police just announced the arrest of the fourth and final suspect charged in the videotaped beating and stripping of a tourist that was videotaped and watched across the country on the Internet. Shatia Baldwin, 21, of Baltimore, is now in custody, though details of how and where she was picked up have not yet been released. On Tuesday, police arrested the third suspect, Deangelo Carter, 18, also of Baltimore. Those two suspects,along with 20-year-old Aaron Parsons, a party promoter from Rosedale accused of throwing a punch that decked the victim, are charged with various counts of assault and robbery.

By moving the NCAA Division I national championships to Memorial Day weekend in 2006, officials hope to ease the burden on participating teams and rev up attendance. Kathy Zerrlaut, chair of the Division I women's lacrosse championship committee and senior associate athletic director at UMBC, said the committee has been talking about making the move for years. The women's final four has been held the weekend before Memorial Day, while the men's tournament culminates over the holiday weekend.

When the Flying Scot sailboats begin racing this weekend from Deep Creek Lake Yacht Club, summer begins in Garrett County.When the fossil hunters of shark teeth from the Miocene Period fill up the parking lot of Calvert Cliffs State Park, it's summer on the Western Shore.When the motorboats go dead in the Atlantic and in Assawoman Bay after a winter of dry dock, the Coast Guard knows summer has come to Ocean City.Marylanders fed up with snowy winter and cool spring begin the hot season in many ways this Memorial Day weekend, no matter that summer solstice is not until June 21. They will honor the war dead, open public and private pools, tend gardens, buy cars and whatnot, watch the Orioles, start the croquet season, get married, leave town and refuse to budge.

The successful relationship between WWE and Susan G. Komen will continue, as a special Mother's Day campaign has been launched. “Make Mom Proud” is an awareness campaign to support the fight against breast cancer. The TV and digital campaign, which coincides with Mother's Day, calls on supporters to do something meaningful for their moms and the other important women in their lives. As part of the campaign, WWE will urge fans to support moms by taking steps to educate themselves about the disease, participate in local Susan G. Komen Races in their communities, and donate to Komen, the world's largest nonprofit funder of breast cancer research and community outreach programs.

Dallas may seem a strange place to start a Hollywood revolution. But that's what happened there on March 26, 1975, when Steven Spielberg's Jaws, the story of a 26-foot shark feasting on inhabitants of a New England village, was shown to a preview audience. "Not until that first screening did we know we had something, that we had truly hit a nerve," remembers co-producer Richard D. Zanuck. "Not until that first scream ... " Thirty years later, with a special-edition DVD about to be released and a big birthday bash planned for next weekend in Martha's Vineyard, where the movie was filmed, Jaws' status as a cinema milestone is secure.

Police made a second arrest and were tracking other suspects Monday in a double shooting that killed a 1-year-old, an attack that angered public officials amid a bloody holiday weekend in which gun violence wounded or killed a dozen people. Cornell Harvey, 26, of the first block of Glenwood Road was charged with first- and second-degree murder and assault in the shooting death of 16-month-old Carter Scott; the child's father, Rashaw Scott, was also critically injured Friday. Police had arrested another suspect after a chase through the Cherry Hill area immediately following the shooting, but did not say what led them to Harvey.

The National Weather Service is forecasting a sunny-but-not-too-warm weekend at Ocean City. Sunday is expected to see a high of 75 degrees in Baltimore and 68 degrees in Ocean City. Winds are expected to be strong and gusty. A 15-20 mph breeze with gusts up to 30 mph are expected Sunday, calming to about 10-15 mph breezes Monday. Skies are expected to be mostly sunny to partly cloudy, keeping things from getting too cold on the beach. Water temperatures are around 60 degrees, only warm enough for the hardiest swimmers and those in wet suits.

Now that Salisbury secured one of the few coveted at-large berths in the NCAA tournament, Jim Berkman feels secure enough to stand on a limb and proclaim that the team can win the national championship for the third consecutive year and the 11th time in the program's history. Sounds crazy? Maybe, but aside from SUNY-Cortland, the top seed in the North region, and Dickinson, the top seed in the South, no other team in the field has less than two losses. “The crazy thing about this is, I really believe that we can still win the whole tournament,” the Sea Gulls coach said Monday morning.

The successful relationship between WWE and Susan G. Komen will continue, as a special Mother's Day campaign has been launched. “Make Mom Proud” is an awareness campaign to support the fight against breast cancer. The TV and digital campaign, which coincides with Mother's Day, calls on supporters to do something meaningful for their moms and the other important women in their lives. As part of the campaign, WWE will urge fans to support moms by taking steps to educate themselves about the disease, participate in local Susan G. Komen Races in their communities, and donate to Komen, the world's largest nonprofit funder of breast cancer research and community outreach programs.

ESPN analyst Quint Kessenich provided commentary for No. 7 Syracuse's 13-12 upset of No. 5 Cornell on Wednesday night and No. 2 Duke's 19-16 victory over No. 16 Virginia on Friday night. The former Johns Hopkins All-American goalkeeper, who can be followed on Twitter via @QKessenich, will be on hand for Saturday's tilt between Navy and No. 15 Johns Hopkins. Kessenich offered his perspective on the No. 1 team in the country, the 10 programs that could advance to the Final Four at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia on Memorial Day weekend, and the issues plaguing No. 15 Virginia.

Police officers in three surrounding counties and the city of Laurel Police are beefing up enforcement of drunk driving this weekend, as St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on Sunday. Laurel Police will conduct a sobriety checkpoint Saturday night, March 16 at Route 1 and Main Street, weather permitting. If it's raining Saturday night, Laurel Police will conduct roving saturation patrols in area, according to Laurel City Spokesman Pete Piringer. Free rides home are available through SoberRide by calling 1-800-200-TAXI (8294)

Most days, Fred Flintstone digs up rocks at the Slate & Co. quarry.But over the Memorial Day weekend, he struck gold.Confounding pundits who pegged it as more of a mega-flop thaa mega-hit, the live-action big-screen version of "The Flintstones" set off a sensational $37.2 million box-office avalanche over the four-day holiday weekend, according to industry estimates. That tops the previous Memorial Day weekend champ, "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," which made $37.03 million in 1989.

Organizers expect attendance for this year's Maryland State Fair to be higher than the turnout last year, when rain fell during the normally busy Labor Day weekend. Labor Day weekend 2007 was different, with temperatures in the 80s and sunshine galore. That meant big crowds at the Timonium fairgrounds and lots of business for vendors. Early estimates put total fair attendance this year at about 410,000, compared with 344,000 last year. "We have had two fabulous days in a row," said Max Mosner, president and general manager of the Maryland State Fair and Agricultural Society Inc., the nonprofit that runs the annual event.

Several hundred Baltimore and state police officers will be saturating the city's bar districts this St. Patrick's Day weekend, looking for drunken drivers and people drinking in the streets, law enforcement officials announced Thursday. "Roadways in and around Baltimore will be heavily patrolled," Baltimore police patrol commander Col. Garnell Green said. "Plan ahead. Have a designated driver. Know where you're going to park and expect large crowds. " Maryland Transportation Administration Police and Maryland State Police are teaming with city officers on a crackdown of rowdy behavior that plagued Canton Square last year, when residents complained of scores of people drinking openly outside bars, breaking glass and leaving trash strewn all around.

Sixteen people were shot in Baltimore City over the Labor Day weekend, six of them fatally, including a young mother killed Sunday evening by a stray bullet as she tidied up after a holiday gathering of family and friends. All the victims of the weekend's violence deserve swift justice, but none more that Larelle Amos, a 22-year-old former honors student at Kenwood High who leaves behind a 1-year-old son. Now is the time for incoming city police commissioner Anthony Batts to show the leadership Baltimore expects of the city's top cop. His first assignment should be to make sure Larelle Amos' killer is brought to justice.