For Henry Ciezkowski, the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on Monday reaffirmed his decision to switch his party affiliation last year to Republican. "He's not giving a textbook answer," said the Edgemere man, one of several dozen Trump supporters who gathered...
The Orioles, while now on the playoff bubble, find themselves in as good a spot as any of those other bubble teams with a week left in the season.
While it's too early to say what the future holds for the Aberdeen IronBirds, in light of last week's news that Cal Ripken Jr. and Billy Ripken, are considering selling a majority interest in the minor league baseball team, Aberdeen's mayor says he is seeking an outcome that "works best for everybody."...
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Money from Baltimore's Horseshoe Casino has helped 300 residents find jobs, the mayor's office said Monday. The Employment Connection Center in South Baltimore has enrolled more 1,200 residents in job-readiness programs and placed 300 people in jobs with area businesses since it opened a year ago....
The Walt Disney Co. is rumored to be eyeing Twitter for a possible acquisition, putting the Burbank entertainment giant in the company of tech firms such as Google and Salesforce that have previously been named as potential suitors. Bloomberg first reported on Monday that Disney is considering...
The Maryland Public Service Commission is seeking public input about how to improve the state's electric distribution systems in the future. The commission plans to hold a series of public meetings and workgroups about topics such as alternative energy sources, affordability and options for consumers...
OpenTable is piloting a new feature that allows restaurants to showcase daily specials on their page, and Baltimore diners will be the first to try it. The San Francisco-based company, which allows diners to make restaurant reservations online and through its mobile app, is rolling out a feature...
Monday night's presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is expected to make television history with the largest audience ever for such an event — exceeding the 80 million in 1980 for Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter. But the TV screen might not be the one that matters most as voters...
Los Angeles rapper The Game went to a block party in West Baltimore’s Gilmor Homes this weekend — and handed out $100 bills to kids in the public housing project, according to his posts on Instagram and Facebook. The “Hate It Or Love It” rapper posted a photo of himself, surrounded by “my #Bodymore...
When he realized the refrigerator at his tech start-up was always being cleaned out by the same employee, a woman, Mike Subelsky told her to stop and took on the task himself. It was perhaps a small gesture to guard against workers falling into “traditional” male or female roles. But the founder...
For Oprah Winfrey, in town this week while making a movie, there's still a part of her that regards Baltimore as home. "Even just seeing street names brings a sense of familiarity and coming home," said Winfrey, who came to Baltimore in 1976 as an anchor for WJZ (Channel 13), and remained with...
Here are some highlights at this year's Baltimore Book Festival: What's Gnu: Check out the debut of the Paws & Pages Stage, which has animal programming plus adoptable pets. Featured authors include Mikita Brottman reading from “The Great Grisby” (4 p.m. Saturday); Bronwen Dickey, “Pit Bull: The...
After being knocked out of Maryland’s victory at Central Florida with an apparent shoulder injury on the first play in double overtime, fifth-year senior quarterback Perry Hills was listed Monday night as the starter for Saturday’s Big Ten opener against Purdue.
In the last 10 years, more than 75 percent of the NFL teams that started 3-0 made the playoffs.
The Orioles will prepare to head off on their final regular-season road trip later today not knowing whether they will play another game this year at Camden Yards. Some of them don’t know whether they’ll ever play another game here in an Orioles uniform, but the tough job ahead in Toronto and New...
This past summer was the hottest in recorded history and possibly in thousands of years. But the sweltering streak really extends much longer, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, with record land and sea surface temperatures for 16 straight months, which represents...
We're a long way from the culture wars of the 1990s, when radically new strategies and styles of artmaking bumped up uncomfortably against long-established notions of who artists are and what art is. Baltimore-born sculptor, quilter and performance artist Joyce Scott was in the thick of those fights...
As Donald Trump's strategists try to soften his image, he has taken his assault against Hillary Clinton to a new level with a bizarre suggestion that would make her more vulnerable to violence from opponents, specifically fervent supporters of the Second Amendment right to bear arms. Mr. Trump's...
Rep. Donna F. Edwards, who ran for Maryland's open Senate seat this year, is an established voice for liberal causes in Congress and has been an outspoken critic of what she sees as her party's failure to truly embrace African-Americans. But when it comes to Twitter, the Prince George's County...
A month after being revealed for the first time, the aerial surveillance program that the Baltimore Police Department has repeatedly insisted was never secret remains heavily shrouded from the public. "Secrecy is not the correct word because it's not a secret spy program. That is absolutely false....
An annual audit of Baltimore's finances found three "significant deficiencies," including in how the city handles water billing and grant money, according to City Auditor Robert L. McCarty. McCarty, who reports to Baltimore Comptroller Joan M. Pratt, presented the audit's findings to the Board...