Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) reported Thursday that work is ongoing with Government officials around an appropriate date for the resumption of racing in Ireland, as confirmation came from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine that June 29th was the date outlined for racing to return behind closed doors. Races have not been held […]

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The Maryland Jockey Club has released a spring condition book for Laurel Park covering a period of 15 days ahead of the still-undetermined resumption of live racing in the state. Specific dates have not been set. As part of Gov. Larry Hogan's statewide shutdown, live racing was paused in Maryland following the March 15 program […]

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Sackatoga Stable's Tiz the Law was made the 7-5 morning line favorite by veteran oddsmaker Mike Battaglia for Saturday's $300,000 Kentucky Jockey Club (Grade II) – the co-featured event on Saturday's penultimate day of racing at the 2019 Fall Meet. Trained by 2003 Kentucky Derby-winning conditioner Barclay Tagg, the undefeated Grade I winner has gotten […]

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The teen was waving around a replica gun.

In the midst of school closures and a sudden need for child care among the families of medical professionals, a group of University of Minnesota students saw an opportunity to put their passion to work. The non-profit MN CovidSitters offers child care and assistive services for free of charge and has grown to over 300 volunteers since its inception in early March. The organization has since inspired others to do the same internationally and across the United States.

The former aide who has accused Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden of sexual assault has been interviewed by Megyn Kelly.

The Baltimore Ravens are scheduled to play five primetime games, including two at M&T Bank Stadium.

Prospectus BioScience of Baltimore announced they'll get $8.6 million from the Department of Health and Human Services.

Cummings says on MSNBC that security will have to be upgraded at the White House, and it will have to strike a balance.

A nurse who caught Ebola while caring for the patient diagnosed in Dallas was released from a hospital Friday, free of the virus.

Police say they've located a 27-year-old woman who took off with her two children and threatened to harm them. They were found safe and unharmed.

Institute of Cancer Research: Scientists bring together world’s coronavirus research in ‘intelligent’ online database. “Scientists have created a dynamic database driven by artificial intelligence which is collecting together the world’s research on coronavirus in a single online space. The new resource will make freely available vast amounts of data on the biology and treatment of … Continue reading Institute of Cancer Research: Scientists bring together world’s coronavirus research in ‘intelligent’ online database

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: ‘We have to test more people’: Wisconsin expands coronavirus testing for African American, Latino and tribal communities. “All African Americans, Latinos and tribal community members in Wisconsin will have access to free COVID-19 testing under a plan announced Thursday by Gov. Tony Evers. Evers’ plan is an effort to combat the staggering … Continue reading ‘We have to test more people’: Wisconsin expands coronavirus testing for African American, Latino and tribal communities (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Channel 3000: 72 got COVID-19 after being at large event. “More than 70 people who tested positive for the coronavirus since an April 24 rally at the Wisconsin state Capitol indicated they had attended a large gathering, but the state Department of Health Services cant’ say if they were at the rally because it is … Continue reading Channel 3000: 72 got COVID-19 after being at large event

Josh Spiegel shares a special poem for Ravens fans who are still dealing with the loss to the Titans.

Josh Spiegel talks about the Coronavirus and unleashes a torrent of blame on China and its eating habits.

While Democrats and Republicans have been divided for years, Josh Spiegel says, during the State of the Union speech, it was clear there's bipartisan support for despising each other.

In a week that saw the release of former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh's apology video and Pugh being sentenced to federal prison for conspiracy and tax evasion, Josh Spiegel offers his wrap up on the Healthy Holly saga.

As the Coronavirus continues to spread, Josh Spiegel expresses his frustration with hygiene warnings from the government.

Confused about Coronavirus? You’re not alone. Josh Spiegel gives many examples of the mixed messages that have been circulating.

What's it like for Josh Spiegel to be ordered to stay at home during the coronavirus crisis? You might think it would be a dream come true for him. It's actually quite the opposite.

For the first time since the coronavirus crisis began, Josh Spiegel left home to go shopping. He was uneasy with the world he found.

In today's Commentary, Josh Spiegel shares his latest observations on the pandemic including the overwhelming number of cliches that he says have overwhelmed him.

The Blue Angels and Thunderbirds soared over Baltimore on Saturday. Josh Spiegel was determined to get a glimpse. Things did not go as planned.

Michael Wrona, the announcer at Los Alamitos Race Course and a great friend and mentor since I was a teenager and started broadcasting horse races 20 years ago, once told me, “The trouble with racehorses is they can't read scripts!” That line has stuck with me years later. It's a shame that horses don't always […]

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The partnership between breeder Stonestreet Farm and consignor Denali Stud has produced a bevy of top-dollar horses at auction, and Charlatan's eye-popping triumph in the Grade 1 Arkansas Derby showed just what a high-priced offering from that union can do on the racetrack. Charlatan was offered by Denali Stud as agent for Stonestreet's “Bred and […]

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(WASHINGTON) -- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, from the tobacco state of Kentucky, on Monday unveiled federal legislation to raise the minimum age to purchase e-cigarettes and all other...

The mayor said he would like to see the complex town down and replaced with a development akin to Prince George's County's National Harbor.

Anxiety is running high, along with the pollen count. A local allergist weighs in.

This Mother's Day, we salute four Twin Cities women who have risen to the challenge during chaotic times.

Citing urgent public health concerns, Metro Transit authorities are moving to contain the spread of a large and growing homeless encampment near the light-rail line in south Minneapolis.

The teen was waving around a replica gun.

An American treasure who moved to Baltimore as a teen and made Maryland his lifetime home, the late Jim McKay is being honored with an exhibit At Harford Community College that highlights his iconic brioadcasting career along with his love affair with Maryland’s Thoroughbred industry

Atlanta Hawks guard Malcolm Delaney is a hero in more ways than one to some Baltimore City Public Schools students who attend the very same elementary school that he attended in northeast Baltimore.

Multiple graded stakes winner Call Paul, formerly trained by Jason Servis, had to be euthanized on Wednesday morning at Belmont Park. The Daily Racing Form reports that the colt suffered catastrophic injuries to his left hind leg during a workout over the training track. The 4-year-old Pennsylvania-bred son of Friesan Fire was breezing for the fourth […]

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Bracing the nation for a death toll that could exceed 100,000 people, President Trump on Sunday extended restrictive social distancing guidelines through April.

The Maryland Department of Health on Sunday announced five new deaths as a result of COVID-19.

President Donald Trump participated in a tour of a Honeywell International plant that manufactures personal protective equipment, Tuesday, May 5, 2020, in Phoenix .

Homes include small cabin, remodeled warehouse loft and lakeshore estates.

What began in March as a small camp consisting of about a couple dozen homeless adults has now swelled to more than 100 residents in tents. Known as "Camp Quarantine," the fast-growing encampment has raised alarms over the health of the camp residents amid the coronavirus pandemic. Construction crews will begin installing a large metal fence around a homeless camp. Police are also expected to be on site too. The fence is being erected to contain the growth of the sprawling camp, which now has about 100 residents in rows of tents. The camp is located on Met Council property along the light-rail line near E. 28th Street and Hiawatha Avenue.

In comments, Joshua Ellinger points to this news article headlined, “Hundreds of thousands in L.A. County may have been infected with coronavirus, study finds,” reporting: The initial results from the first large-scale study tracking the spread of the coronavirus in [Los Angeles] county found that 2.8% to 5.6% of adults have antibodies to the virus […]

Kostya Medvedovsky writes: I wanted to direct your attention to the University of Texas COVID-19 Modeling Consortium’s new projections. They’re very similar to the IMHE model you’ve covered before, and had some calibration issues. However, per the writeup by Spencer Woody et al., they do three things you may be interested in: They fix an […]

The other day I wrote about the challenge in addressing the pandemic—a worldwide science/engineering problem—using our existing science and engineering infrastructure, which is some mix of government labs and regulatory agencies, private mega-companies, smaller companies, university researchers, and media entities and rich people who can direct attention and resources. The current system might be the […]

Seth Flaxman et al. have an updated version of their model of coronavirus progression. Flaxman writes: Countries with successful control strategies (for example, Greece) never got above small numbers thanks to early, drastic action. Or put another way: if we did China and showed % of population infected (or death rate), we’d erroneously conclude that […]

The other day we posted some Stan models of coronavirus infection rate from the Stanford study in Santa Clara county. The Bayesian setup worked well because it allowed us to directly incorporate uncertainty in the specificity, sensitivity, and underlying infection rate. Mitzi Morris put all this in a Google Collab notebook so you can run […]

What’s new? The new and shiny reduce_sum facility released with Stan 2.23 is far more user-friendly and makes it easier to scale Stan programs with more CPU cores than it was before. While Stan is awesome for writing models, as the size of the data or complexity of the model increases it can become impractical […]

Proposal to temporarily loosen restrictions on on-site sales faces uncertain prospect in session's final days.

Bruising convention battle calls into question party unity behind the Peterson challenger.

After snapping up more than $500 billion in emergency loans in just three weeks, small-business owners have lost interest in the federal Paycheck Protection Program. Minnesota business owners are among those who may give back a chunk of their forgivable loans.