Unusual man-made perennials sprout between the shrubs in a secluded backyard garden in suburban Glen Burnie. Some are blooming brightly, in glowing shades of green, yellow, pink, blue and red neon. Other specimen plantings need more tending. The gardener of this remarkable sign garden is Norman...
A bulldozer knocked down rowhouses on McDonogh Street one late autumn day more than eight years ago. I stood and watched as a part of East Baltimore disappeared that afternoon and skeptically considered what would replace them. I wrote a few days later about the "decimated and emptied neighborhood"...
Orioles left-hander Wade Miley left the game just 12 pitches into the first inning of Friday’s series-opening 4-2 win over the Chicago White Sox after back-to-back batters stung line drives up the middle and hit him.
Outfielder Jake Ring was named Orioles minor league Player of the Month for April after hitting the cover off the ball in his full-season debut.
Top Orioles starter Chris Tillman, who hasn't pitched yet this season because of shoulder soreness that stunted his spring training and landed him on the disabled list to start the year, is on track to make his season debut Sunday.
Baltimore police conducted more than 250 inspections of police body camera videos last year to review compliance with the new program, according to records obtained by The Baltimore Sun. Most of the reviews showed officers were in compliance. Baltimore police policy requires that officers start...
Before the House of Representatives' health care vote on Thursday, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to press his case to repeal the Affordable Care Act. That morning, he tweeted "Death spiral!" over a link to news that Aetna would pull out of the Virginia insurance exchange out of fear of...
There has been horrendous news coverage of orphanages recently: children starving in an orphanage in Belarus, a fire killing 40 girls in an orphanage in Guatemala, children being made to clean septic tanks and scavenge for food at an orphanage in India. This all gives rise to a hugely important...
The denial of a speaking engagement to conservative commentator Ann Coulter at the University of California at Berkeley is getting a lot of coverage right now, but it's nothing new. For many decades, there has been a stunning — and manifestly appalling — general prejudice against conservatives...
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Just five months after it opened, MGM National Harbor emerged for the second straight month in April as Maryland's top revenue-producing casino, according to figures released Friday by the state. MGM, which topped $50 million in monthly revenue for the first time in March, generated $49.9 million...
JCPenney in Abingdon has expanded its home department to include major appliances. The department store at the Boulevard at Box Hill is one of 100 JCPenney stores nationwide to get a major appliance department this year. The new department opened Friday, featuring a 1,000-square-foot showroom with...
A burst of hiring in April provided a reassuring sign for the U.S. economy and reduced a broader gauge of the job market's health to its lowest level since the recession began nearly a decade ago. Employers added 211,000 jobs, more than double the weak showing in March, the Labor Department said...
Since September, East Baltimore native Lawrence Burney has lived in New York, covering music for Vice’s music website, Noisey. But he still makes a trip home once a week to see his 6-year-old daughter, Ayden. He spends nearly all of his time visiting with her, but the 26-year-old writer still keeps...
With just six days to go before the opening of the 2017 Venice Biennale, the staff for the Baltimore Museum of Art was being bombarded with interview requests from more than 140 media outlets, including the national public television of Slovenia and the fashion magazine Marie Claire Ukraine. They've...
Thirty-four years into his career as Metallica's lead guitarist, Kirk Hammett's routine around this time remains the same. Tour is about to start, so it's time to run. "It's important for me to be in shape, and make sure my cardio is up," Hammett said on the phone recently from his San Francisco...
Date: April 1 Her story: Brittany Rae Beecroft, 26, was born in Fairfax, Va., and moved to Burtonsville when she was 7. She works as an account manager for Air Distribution at Havtech. Her mother, Sheri Stratigis, lives in Clarksville. His story: Ryan Patrick McGurk, 35, was born and raised in...
More than a decade after his daughter, Deanna, died after being electrocuted by a fence in Druid Hill Park, former Baltimore Colts lineman Anthony “Bubba” Green is looking to celebrate Deanna’s life and love of music with a charitable concert. Green and his wife, Nancy Arrington, who launched the...
The hilltop views and plush grounds of Sagamore Farm provide an ideal backdrop to showcase Preakness fashion: white-haute retro wares from Annapolis native Christian Siriano, playful hats from the famed Christine A. Moore, flashy accessories from Ellicott City native Danielle DiFerdinando and more....
Department of Defense decision won't impact Reynolds' NFL career.
Weather was the biggest story in the past few days before the Kentucky Derby, with regular bursts of chilly rain adding uncertainty to a race that was already difficult to handicap.
After a 10- to 15-minute interview at the podium Friday, there were a lot of team officials smiling about Chris Wormley. He had the square shoulders and complete upright posture. When he talked, he always maintained heavy eye contact.
Many House Republicans who gambled to pass a healthcare plan must now turn to a new challenge: survival. The two largest purges of House members since the early 1940s have followed efforts to remake the nation’s healthcare system: in 1994, when Democrats lost 52 seats after the collapse of the...
The Trump administration is proposing to gut the budget of the White House "drug czar" by 95 percent, effectively eliminating the decades-old Office of National Drug Control Policy, the lead federal agency responsible for managing and coordinating drug policy, according to a memo that its acting...
A Wisconsin-based atheist group has filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to strike down President Donald Trump's order easing enforcement of an IRS rule limiting religious organizations' political activity. A 1954 federal law prohibits tax-exempt charitable organizations such as churches from...
City and state officials say tenants in Baltimore's rent court must have better access to lawyers, and that more needs to be done to reduce evictions and improve rental housing. Mayor Catherine E. Pugh said she is exploring ways to support legal services for low-income tenants, who typically fend...
City lawyers refused to release information about the Baltimore Fire Department's response times, dispatch errors and paramedic staffing rates. Benjamin A. Bor, a special assistant solicitor in the city's Law Department, told The Baltimore Sun this month that the city was denying two Public Information...
After fast-tracking a $12.5 million program to equip its police officers with body cameras, the Baltimore County Police Department has declined to release footage from three recent police shootings. County police have shot six people in four separate incidents since January, killing two of them....