The State Board of Elections has forwarded to prosecutors a citizen's complaint that a developer used several different companies to give money to the Baltimore mayoral campaign of state Sen. Catherine E. Pugh in order to circumvent donation limits in the Democratic primary. The complaint — which...
With a lengthy, powerful storm beginning early Sunday morning in Texas, the Rangers moved quickly to postpone Sunday's series finale with the Orioles at Globe Life Park. The game will be made up on a common off-day, June 20, creating a one-day road trip and eliminating one of the Orioles' four...
On a bright and sunny April Sunday, when most everyone was out enjoying the weather, Ed Hamilton went to Baltimore's main post office on Fayette Street to mail his tax return. With one day to go before this year's extended deadline, Hamilton, 59, of Dundalk, was one of millions of Americans who...
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People starting or running minority-owned businesses in Baltimore often see a lack of funding as their biggest challenge. But J. Howard Henderson says there's more to it. "First, they need to understand what the opportunities are," said Henderson, president and CEO of the Greater Baltimore Urban...
Big crowds expected for Record Store Day on April 16
The Maryland labor market started the spring with a bang, as employers added 19,300 jobs in March — more than any other state in the country, according to new estimates the Department of Labor released Friday. It was Maryland's largest monthly gain of all but three months in the past 25 years —...
Sometimes, it seems that the world has to fall completely apart before it can be put back together. One of the great paradoxes of living through a time when everything is up for grabs is that nothing is out of reach. Throughout history, periods of tumult and upheaval have also served as pressure...
For over a century, Arch Social Club has offered haven. When it was formed in 1905, it served as a safe space for black men to convene and socialize far from the disapproving gazes of their religious wives or the injustice of a segregated society. Last year, in the aftermath of April's unrest,...
Freddie Gray's death from injuries sustained in police custody and the unrest that followed has had a lasting impact on Baltimore's arts community. From the photographs of Devin Allen to murals in Sandtown-Winchester, art provided an outlet for healing and expression for many. A year later, here's...
April and Michael Walter are readying their Queenstown residence for the upcoming Queen Anne's County portion of the 2016 Maryland House & Garden Pilgrimage Tour.
On a sunny day over spring break, a friend and I took our children to Double Rock Park in Parkville. We packed snacks, bubbles, balls and a blanket, and we intended to sit and gab while the five kids — ages 3, 4 and 5 — played on a sturdy play set and threw rocks into a little, muddy creek at the...
It's on the fifth floor of the league's Park Avenue headquarters, has glass that's frosted opaque, soundproof walls, heavily encrypted computers, and can be accessed only by a special key card.
Johns Hopkins midfielder John Crawley went more than 54 minutes without scoring a goal in Sunday night's men's lacrosse game at Penn State, but he scored twice in a 60-second span late in the fourth quarter and then the game-winner 1:58 into overtime to lift the Blue Jays past the Nittany Lions,...
When the Anne Arundel County sheriff's office sent out a press release detailing the arrest of Sheriff Ronald Bateman on allegations of domestic violence this week, the under-sheriff took the extra step of adding a personal testimonial about his boss. "I have never known the Sheriff to be a violent...
In a Martin's West hall festooned with student art at Baltimore County's State of the Schools' event, a few high-dollar donor tables featured education tech reps doing their own artful work. Daly Computers — which is supplying up to 120,000 laptops to Baltimore County Public Schools under a multi-year...
What does a Jewish grandmother have in common with a teen-age Muslim student? Quite a lot in point of fact. I became Dima Zahan's mentor seven years ago shortly after she began the 6th grade in a city private school on a full scholarship. Now at 16, she has been accepted by several colleges but...
Months after asking the U.S. Department of Justice to reform the Baltimore police force, Commissioner Anthony W. Batts went before a City Council committee to detail how much force officers used during arrests. Batts told the public safety committee in January 2015 that police had logged fewer than...
Through traffic stops, home raids, routine arrests and occassionally-violent confrontations with armed suspects, Baltimore police officers have seized more than 400 illegal firearms so far this year — a rate of about four seizures per day, and a 50 percent increase over the same period last year,...
Though Baltimore officials have identified more than 500 vacant houses that are at risk of collapse, just 17 are on the city's list of several hundred buildings to be torn down in the next year or two, a review by The Baltimore Sun has found. The collapse of at least five houses in the past two...