Jesse Pitcher in a duck blind during his hunting trip in Kansas. He was one of seven in his hunting party who died Wednesday on their way back home to Maryland when their flight from Wichita collided with a U.S. Army helicopter near Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. Courtesy photo Fowl Plains

Seven local friends from Maryland tragically lost their lives in the D.C. plane crash as they were heading back from a hunting trip in Kansas.

Friends from Southern Maryland were on Flight 5342 returning from a hunting trip in Kansas, others were returning from a business trip.

The ties to Boston conjured up painful memories for Nathan Birch, a Baltimore skater who grew up training at that very same club. He remembered seeing memorials from the 1961 crash, which killed several Boston club members, on the walls and in an upstairs lounge.

Several people from Maryland were killed in the horrific DC plane crash, including four members of a Maryland Steamfitters Union.

Friends returning home to Maryland from a hunting trip were among the victims killed, after an American Airlines plane and Black Hawk helicopter collided near R

The hunting buddies worked as tradesmen in Maryland. Three of their group survived because they drove their bird dogs home.

On Jan. 12, Baltimore officers responded to reports of a shooting and found the security guard, later identified as 38-year-old Jamal Davis, with gunshot wounds, according to a Facebook post by the police department.

The ice skating community in Maryland and nationwide is reeling in the aftermath of a deadly mid-air collision involving a passenger jet carrying 64 people.

Almost nine months before Wednesday night’s midair collision at Ronald Reagan National Airport, Maryland’s two U.S. senators warned about the safety implications of overcrowding the air space

The player from Virginia started the trip playing games in the Ocean Downs Casino, lottery officials said in a Jan. 27 news release. After she lost $35, she switched to Maryland Lottery games through vending machines at the casino — and immediately won way more than she’d lost with a $50,000 top prize, officials said.

How are those key results moving the projected men’s NCAA tournament field? Here’s a look at Sports Illustrated’s latest projected bracket: On the Bubble Last Four Byes: Ohio State Buckeyes Oklahoma Sooners Georgia Bulldogs San Diego State AztecsLast Four In: Pittsburgh Panthers Texas Longhorns UCF Knights BYU CougarsFirst Four Out: North Carolina Tar Heels Xavier Musketeers Wake Forest Demon Deacons Arizona State Sun DevilsNext Four Out: VCU Rams Indiana Hoosiers North Texas Mean Green SMU MustangsThree SEC teams currently sit among our final eight teams in,