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Officer Porter case poses rare question: When is failing to act a crime?

David Simon remembers lunch with 'Little Melvin'

Army-Navy game has become a tradition for pair who met on battlefield

Sidewalk permit for Freddie Gray case raises concerns about free speech

Baltimore Police cancel leave for officers ahead of jury deliberations in Freddie Gray case

25 best bars in Baltimore

10 best places for breakfast and brunch

Ravens' win probabilities done in by costly turnovers, big passing plays allowed, crushing penalties

Eugene Monroe's future with Ravens uncertain

Victims in fatal I-95 crash identified

Morrell Park Royal Farms sells winning $1M Mega Millions ticket

Woman injured in Edgewood industrial building fire

Two shot at Woodlawn lounge

Two patrons at Mirrors Hookah Lounge in Woodlawn were injured in a shooting outside the establishment early Saturday, police said. The victims were transported to a nearby hospital. One is expected to survive the injuries. Police did not know the condition of the second victim. According to police,...

Two men shot in East Baltimore

Police seek two men in Thursday afternoon shooting in Aberdeen

Man shot in Baltimore County during apparent robbery

Carson swipes at GOP over convention talk

Freddie Gray remembered as jokester who struggled to leave drug trade

Then and now: Scenes from Baltimore's April unrest

Baltimore's surveillance cameras may hold clues to Freddie Gray case

Local celebrities singing a classic holiday song

Customer slaps worker in anti-Muslim tirade

Eight students, teacher taken to hospital after pepper spray discharged in school

Community holds vigil for Towson student and cheerleading coach killed in I-95 crash

Friday weather forecast for the Baltimore area

Suspects accused of following UPS truck, taking package from doorstep

MASN asks appeals court for 'neutral forum' for TV rights dispute

The Orioles-controlled television network on Friday asked a New York appeals court to order that the network's TV rights dispute with the Washington Nationals be heard by a "neutral and independent forum." Last month, a New York Supreme Court justice tossed out a Major League Baseball arbitration...

Baltimore to give big tax break to attract more grocery stores

The Rawlings-Blake administration is banking on a new strategy to bring fresh food to disadvantaged Baltimore communities: an 80 percent break on the taxes grocery stores pay on their cash registers, freezers and other equipment. The City Council unanimously approved the legislation Thursday as...

Hospitals to create up to 375 jobs for disadvantaged city residents

Baltimore residents living in struggling neighborhoods hard hit by riots last April will be able to apply for 375 new jobs at area hospitals thanks to an initiative approved by state hospital rate regulators. After three months of debates and hearings, state regulators reached a last-minute agreement...

Jimmy's Famous Seafood has a tasty proposition for Chris Davis

If $22 million a year isn't enough to convince Chris Davis to stay with the Orioles, Jimmy's Famous Seafood is sweetening the pot. Free crab cakes. For life. For Davis — and his children and his grandchildren. The East Baltimore restaurant posted on social media Thursday it would offer Davis (and...

MSNBC's Chris Hayes focuses on Baltimore tonight

Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC's "All In" weeknight show, focuses on Baltimore tonight in a look at the city in the wake of the Freddie Gray unrest. Titled "All In -- Back to Baltimore," an MSNBC publicist described the show in an email today as: "Chris Hayes goes back to Baltimore to see what progress...

Annapolis couple sail onto Broadway with 'Dames at Sea'

The heart of Manhattan's theater district, which picked up the nickname the Great White Way in the 1890s because of then-dazzling electric lights, is really more like the Great Might Way. You might be talented enough to reach Broadway; you might have a play or musical investors will take a chance...

White House holiday decor gets help from Sparks landscape designer

For Claire Jones, Christmas started early this year — at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving. That's when Jones, a landscape designer and garden blogger from Sparks, arrived in the lobby of a Washington-area hotel to meet with a group of volunteers she would spend hours with over the next several days, as they...

At 'Sound of Music,' Baltimore Design School students get costuming lesson

More than 30 students from the Baltimore Design School gathered just off the side of the stage at the Hippodrome Theatre on Wednesday night, huddled around actress Teri Hansen as she spoke about the importance of costuming in "The Sound Of Music," currently appearing at the downtown venue. The...

Retro Baltimore: City's travel history traced in china patterns

Baltimore has been home to at least 240 hotels, many with unique china patterns.

Agent Scott Boras: Orioles still in on Chris Davis

Scott Boras, the agent for free-agent slugger Chris Davis, said no doors have closed with the Orioles.

Brady Anderson says Orioles need to act sooner to extend contracts with own players

Orioles vice president says the club is costing itself millions of dollars, and potentially losing key pieces, by not pursuing long-term deals with its own players before free agency.

Army-Navy 2015: Navy doesn't want to drop ball with streak

Mids seek to extend record dominance of Army

Disorder in Sharia courts

Set aside for a moment the violent incidents associated with people claiming to act under the authority of their Islamic faith and consider instead what passes for normalcy. Some in Britain would like to elevate to the level of wide-scale acceptance Sharia law, an Islamic legal system predicated...

Making witnesses safe

When witnesses to crimes refuse to tell police what they saw and heard, everybody loses except the criminals. The police can't identify suspects, the victims can't seek justice in the courts, and neighborhoods are terrorized by violent offenders in their midst. Why do people remain silent and allow...

Giving the gun culture another pass

Perhaps the most conspicuous feature of President Obama's rare Oval Office speech to the nation Sunday night was its total focus on terrorism. There was barely a mention of the easy availability of guns on the home front with which it is carried out. The FBI has determined the mayhem that claimed...

Find: Holiday events in the area

Through Dec. 13: Marvel Universe Live! at Royal Farms Arena

Through Dec. 12: MICA Art Market at Maryland Institute College of Art

Lawmakers, activists call for better enforcement of Md. lead-paint laws

State and city regulators need to do a better job enforcing laws meant to protect children from lead poisoning if the longtime health scourge is ever to be eliminated, key lawmakers and community leaders said Monday. Speaking in reaction to a Baltimore Sun investigation that found breakdowns in...

Lead paint: Despite progress, hundreds of Maryland children still poisoned

There's a huge hole in the kitchen ceiling of the rowhouse Olivia Griffin rents in West Baltimore. Rain leaks in through the roof, the lights in a bedroom don't work, and standing water fills one end of the basement. The 27-year-old mother's biggest worry, though, is the flaking, peeling paint...

Maryland hiring ombudsman for public records controversies

Wanted: public records expert with a willingness to jump into fights between the news media and government officials. Maryland's attorney general is now hiring an ombudsman to mediate disputes over access to public information, a post that was created by lawmakers but had been unfilled. The Board...

Bob Hamilton: My 45-year journey through photography

From the vault: Holiday lights

A. Aubrey Bodine: Baltimore Sun pictorialist