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As of 9 a.m. Monday, traffic was slow on Lombard Street near Lloyd Street in Baltimore City, due to an accident. An accident was slowing traffic on Fallston Road near Pleasantville Road in Fallston. A water main break was disrupting traffic around Madison Street and Guilford Avenue in Baltimore City. North Charles Street was closed between North Avenue and West 21st Street in Baltimore City, due to water main repairs. Officials recommend that motorists use Calvert or Howard streets or I-83 as alternative routes.

No. 12 Towson (2-2, 1-0 CAA) at No. 5 James Madison (3-1, 1-0 CAA) Time: 1 p.m. Site: Bridgeforth Stadium, Harrisonburg, Va. TV: NBC Sports Network Radio: TowsonTigers.com Series: James Madison leads, 17-5-1 What's at stake: With the top four teams in the Colonial Athletic Association facing off against each other over the next two weeks - Towson and JMU on Saturday and Old Dominion vs. Villanova next...

Our troupe of chefs enter the kitchen still reeling over the Grand Canyon field trip. “What a filling!” says Thierry. Or maybe that was “feeling”. Tricky French accent. He also reveals he's feeling much more competitive now that he's won an elimination challenge. Curtis announces the Quickfire challenge: create two versions of the same dish - one with meat and one vegetarian. Judging the dishes will be Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, otherwise known as the rock duo the Indigo Girls.

Are you from here? That freshly painted mural at The Dome at the Madison Square Recreation Center, it wants to know, and it wants to know in big block letters. Everyone wants to know, it seems. After all, it is an advertising slogan for Under Armour, the Locust Point-based apparel company that teamed up with the NBA to renovate The Dome, a facility on East Biddle Street that carries those words on its wall, on the baselines and on the shirts of about 100 kids that were seated on and around the court Monday.

As of 9 a.m. Tuesday, traffic was slow at Linwood Road and Madison Street, due to an accident. Cleanup from an accident was slowing traffic on Washington Boulevard near I-195 in Baltimore County. A disabled vehicle was blocking traffic on U.S. 29 south at Old Columbia Road in Howard County. Debris in the road was blocking traffic on the inner loop of I-695 near Greenspring Avenue in Baltimore County. Light rail service is suspended between the Timonium and Hunt Valley stations due to construction work.

Towson goalie Mary Teeters started jumping up and down as soon as the final buzzer sounded in Sunday's Colonial Athletic Association women's lacrosse championship. She finally stopped when her teammates swarmed her at midfield. Teeters' save with 20 seconds left secured an 8-7 victory over James Madison and the No. 17 Tigers' fourth CAA title in seven years. The Tigers will host an NCAA tournament play-in game at 7 p.m. Saturday against Monmouth, the Northeast Conference champion, at Johnny Unitas Stadium.

Sarah Hogan has scored other goals for Towson, but it's doubtful any have been more important or timely than against visiting James Madison on Sunday. The junior scored with 26 seconds left in double overtime to give the No. 17 Tigers a 10-9 win and the regular-season Colonial Athletic Association championship. Both teams entered the game with unblemished conference records, and both knew it was winner take all for the title. "I saw that Kelly [Custer] was being doubled and had nowhere to go, and she did a great job of getting me the ball," said Hogan, who fired a bullet past James Madison's Schylar Healy for the game winner.

James Madison (9-5) @ No. 17 Towson (11-3) Sunday, 1 p.m. Outlook: The winner of this regular-season finale earns first place in the Colonial Athletic Association as well as the top seed and home-field advantage in the conference tournament. The Tigers and Dukes each enter today 5-0 in the conference and on a five-game winning streak. Each also has one of the nation's top scoring defenses, with Towson allowing just 8.4 goals per game - eighth-best in Division I - and James Madison 9.5 (18th)

Dr. James Burch Brooks, a retired orthopedic surgeon who spent his more than four-decade career with the Four East Madison Orthopedic Association, died Sunday of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at Union Memorial Hospital. The Cross Keys resident was 85. "He was extremely capable and humble, and he was well liked by his patients and all of those who worked around him," said Dr. Charles E. "Chick" Silberstein, a longtime friend and Baltimore orthopedic surgeon. "His patients just adored him. " The son of insurance executives, Dr. Brooks was born in Baltimore and raised in Forest Park.

Editor's note: Each week, InsideMdSports.com provides this blog with a Maryland recruiting feature that previously appeared as premium content on its site. Mark Turgeon's efforts to strengthen his backcourt took him to Raleigh, N.C., last week, when he dropped in on Ravenscroft School senior Madison Jones . InsideMDSports.com caught up briefly with Jones, a 6-foot-1, 170-point guard who recently helped his school to its first state title in 32 years.