In late September, Diane Frederick received the crushing news that son Kevin Cannady, 29, had been killed. He was the third of her three boys to be fatally shot on the streets of Baltimore. The first son's killing in 1998 was never solved; her second son was killed in 2009 by a police officer in...
As Orioles pitchers took part in their first bullpen sessions of spring training Friday, manager Buck Showalter made sure he got a good glimpse of left-hander Chris Lee's first throwing session.
Chestertown residents who have been fighting the possible closure of the Eastern Shore town's hospital won a victory this week when two influential state legislators and Maryland's health secretary stepped in to keep the facility open. The lawmakers' action gives them and the health care system...
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For a year, Steve Gross has been at the helm of a company with a 110-year history of providing home-schooling services for students around the world, including Barack Obama when he was a child in Indonesia. Gross was hired as CEO of Calvert Education to bring the Hunt Valley-based company, one...
Under Armour has extended its deal to oufit all of the athletic teams at the University of South Carolina, one of its first big collegiate partners. Under the new contract, the Baltimore athletic apparel company will continue as the official outfitter of the Gamecocks’ varsity teams through June...
The strategy to outsmart floods that can sweep through the Jones Falls Valley is simple, yet effective — install thick aquarium glass in the ground-floor windows. While touring the Whitehall Mill, the historic complex undergoing a $22 million makeover to become apartments, offices, a food market...
On March 4, 1933, the day Franklin Delano Roosevelt took his first oath of office as president, his wife Eleanor wore a ring she had recently been given by journalist Lorena Hickok. A couple of days later, after the two women chatted by phone, the new first lady wrote to her friend: "Ah, how good...
Paul Giamatti as Honore de Balzac, author and debauched coffee addict. The big-body rap artist Action Bronson on tour eating great food and smoking pot in epic quantities. And some of the best backstage reporting on the presidential campaign in any medium. After years of hearing experts say television...
A Matmos composition can come from anywhere, even the most ordinary corners. Standing inside the basement in his Charles Village home, M.C. Schmidt runs his index and middle fingers under a running faucet, and then vigorously rubs the top of his washing machine. On a computer nearby, his partner,...
Amid the blaring of pop tunes, the humming of power tools and the grinding of saws, Jay Ranaweera, masked by protective goggles, is at work on his latest project at the Station North Tool Library on a Sunday afternoon. The 29-year-old designer and intern architect at Rohrer Studio is finishing...
The design for a Divine Monument in Mount Vernon received the blessing of Baltimore’s Public Art Commission last night, but now comes the tough part: Raising the money to actually make it happen. So far, the group hoping to install a monument to the late actor, drag queen and pop-culture icon has...
After a two-year absence, the World Championship Punkin Chunkin competition is making a comeback, and it may be coming to Maryland. The Delaware-based world-renowned pumpkin challenge, in which competitors launch the orange squashes into the air with medieval-like homemade contraptions, is looking...
After disappointing loss at Minnesota, Maryland plays Michigan at home on Sunday
When Johns Hopkins senior attackman Ryan Brown jams another shot in a tight corner or scores from an awkward angle in practice, head coach Dave Pietramala isn't impressed. He just marvels if the goalie can make a save. "To have a shooter like that is outstanding," said ESPN commentator Mark Dixon....
The Poets took hold of the game in the second quarter and never let go with strong defense and timely baskets throughout, coming away with a 57-45 win that keeps them in second place in the city's Division 1 league.
Consumers of popular culture only have to peer into a mirror-like movie screen to presage trouble ahead. Gaze into 2016, and you'll see a world devastated by an alien invasion, a civil war and even an apocalypse. While I allude to upcoming, sure-to-be blockbusters with all-too-familiar titles from...
In Springfield, Ill., last week, President Barack Obama commemorated the ninth anniversary of his bid for the White House. He admitted that one of his "few regrets" was his inability "to reduce the polarization and the meanness in our politics." To conservative ears, Mr. Obama's comments fell somewhere...
Gov. Larry Hogan wants to spend $1 million to install drone detection technology over two high-security Maryland prisons, the latest attempt to combat plots to airdrop contraband, which has become a nationwide problem. Hogan's budget proposes installing the technology at prison complexes in Jessup...
The Obama administration has proposed new rules that would require seafood importers to better record the who, what, when, where and how of the fish they bring into the country. "Traceability is a key tool for combating illicit activities that threaten valuable natural resources, increase global...
A foundation associated with the University System of Maryland is requesting bids from contractors for a $125,000 kitchen renovation in the Baltimore County mansion it provides for its chief executive. In December the executive committee of The University System of Maryland Foundation discussed...