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Churches merge, close: 'We no longer live in Christendom. We really have to accept that it's a thing of the past'

Federal authorities made dozens of requests to hold immigrants in Baltimore

Everything different for Maryland's Justin Jackson with sophomore year about to begin

New Inner Harbor finish line a hit at 17th Baltimore Running Festival

University of Maryland researchers work on flu treatment

Three stats that stand out ahead of Ravens-Vikings game Sunday

Mike Preston's key matchups for the Ravens-Vikings game

Jeremy Maclin is inactive for Vikings' game, further weakening banged-up wide receiver group

Ravens vs. Vikings: Week 7 game time, TV and more

Terrance West eager to return to Ravens, but his left calf might have a different idea

Police: Man, 28, shot in hand in downtown Baltimore

Eight men shot in Baltimore between Friday and Saturday nights

Coast Guard suspends search for Baltimore man missing on Va. Eastern Shore

The elephant in the room: Controversial animal rides stay at Maryland Renaissance Festival

Crownsville breaks its medieval spell on Sunday, returning from “Game of Thrones”-esque fantasy to regular Maryland soil. This year’s Maryland Renaissance Festival featured a new jousting performance group and an old standby — the elephant and camel rides. And don’t expect the animal rides to end...

School bus fire temporarily shuts down southbound I-95 South; 40 students evacuated

Dulaney boys win fifth straight county title, Hereford girls regain championship

15-year-old critically wounded in Howard County shooting

Victor J. Makovitch, Carroll County educator

Trump tax cuts: A 'win' for the GOP, a disaster for the rest of us

With the Senate’s passage of a budget framework on Thursday night, Republicans hope to enact a sweeping overhaul of the tax code by Christmas. What that “sweeping overhaul” entails, however, we don’t really know, except that it cannot possibly live up to all that President Donald Trump has promised....

How did the Edgewood shooter get the gun?

Now that police have apprehended Radee Prince, the man accused of killing three co-workers, injuring two others and later shooting a sixth man on Wednesday, we may get some answers about what would lead someone to unleash such a murderous outburst. Mr. Prince had been accused of workplace violence...

Pitts: When making people uncomfortable is the point

It "makes some people uncomfortable." That was the explanation Kenny Holloway, a school board official in Biloxi, Mississippi, gave the Sun Herald newspaper last week, for the board's decision to remove from its eighth-grade curriculum a Pulitzer Prize-winning American classic, Harper Lee's "To...

Cal Thomas: The Trump-McConnell detente

That was some chaotic scene in the White House Rose Garden Monday. After lunch with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucy Republican, the president assured combative reporters and the country that the two are getting along just fine, in spite of the Senate's failure to repeal and replace...

Dulaney boys, Hereford girls win county cross country title

Maryland Madness celebrates men's and women's basketball teams

Sights and sounds of Maryland Million Day at Laurel Park

Harvest Ball and Fall Frolick After Party

Sights and sounds of the Baltimore Running Festival

Hundreds gather to mourn the loss of one victim of Harford workplace shooting

Maryland adds 2,400 jobs in September as unemployment falls

Maryland added 2,400 jobs in September as the unemployment rate ticked down to 3.8 percent, the U.S. Labor Department said Friday. The state’s jobless rate remained below the national average of 4.2 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor statistics. Maryland was one of 11 states where the jobless...

Elon Musk to start hyperloop project in Maryland, officials say

Maryland has given transportation pioneer Elon Musk permission to dig tunnels for the high-speed, underground transit system known as a hyperloop that Musk wants to build between New York and Washington. Hogan administration officials said Thursday the state has issued a conditional utility permit...

Baltimore apartments aim to win over renters by appealing to their pets

Laura Goodell and her fiance didn’t have a dog when they came to Baltimore a year ago for graduate school — yet. The Equitable Building’s rooftop dog run helped sell them on the apartments in a converted former office building. “It was my hope we’d adopt,” Goodell said. “This kind of amenity isn’t...

Watch the first trailer for HBO's 'Baltimore Rising,' Sonja Sohn's documentary about Freddie Gray aftermath

Here’s a look at the first trailer for HBO’s documentary “Baltimore Rising,” directed by Sonja Sohn of “The Wire.” The documentary was filmed in the aftermath of Freddie Gray’s death from injuries suffered in police custody in 2015. It will air on HBO on Nov. 20 at 8 p.m. You can watch the trailer...

Walters Art Museum's spectacular collection of Asian arts reopens

The Awakened One had big feet. Judging by “Seated Buddha,” the 18th- to 19th-century statue from Myanmar (formerly Burma) on view in one of two newly renovated galleries at the Walters Art Museum, his trotters were the size of small paddles — and just as flat. That’s because he wanted to leave...

Flying Dog puts new Frederick brewery plans on 'permanent hold,' eyes distillery

Flying Dog Brewery, Maryland’s largest producer of craft beer, has placed its major expansion plans “on permanent hold” because of recent and much-debated legislation regarding state brewery regulations, chief executive Jim Caruso said in a statement on Friday. Late last year, Flying Dog purchased...

Reunited Guns N' Roses re-enforce rock-canon status in Washington

Despite only releasing one album of original material in the past two and a half decades, Guns N’ Roses has changed significantly in the last few years. When the band came to the Fillmore Silver Spring in 2012, frontman Axl Rose and his eccentric cast of replacement players were touring theatre-sized...

Captain Trash Wheel? Trashzilla? Public invited to vote on name of Baltimore's newest trash wheel

Will it be Captain Trash Wheel, Uncle Curtis, Trashzilla, Oscar, or Trash Smasher? That will be the pertinent question over the next week, as the Maryland Port Administration invites the public to help choose the name for the newest trash wheel planned for South Baltimore’s Masonville Cove, a dredged...

Fantasy news website posts satirical item about Miley Cyrus moving to Annapolis

A satirical news site posted an item that pop music star Miley Cyrus is moving to Annapolis. WKO 21, which warns its readers that its articles are “works of fantasy or satire and are not true,” posted an undated item titled “MILEY CYRUS IS MOVING TO ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND, EXPLAINS WHY.” In comments...

With wedding forced to move, other couples nervous, Baltimore venue manager promises to resume events as planned

With at least one bride and groom forced to relocate their wedding and other nervous couples apparently preparing to jump ship, a Hampden-based venue manager is pledging to make good on commitments to dozens of weddings and other gatherings booked at sites in Hampden and Federal Hill. “I feel so...

5 things we learned from Maryland's 38-13 loss at No. 5 Wisconsin

One game past the midpoint of DJ Durkin’s second season at Maryland, the pure optimism of September has faded into the faint hope of October and is headed fast for the painful oblivion of November. Before the Terps face the same kind of three-game gauntlet they did a year ago, this time to close...

The Sun Remembers: Oct. 22-28

Oct. 22, 2000: For the fourth consecutive game, the Ravens fail to score a touchdown, losing, 14-6, to the Tennessee Titans before an announced 69,200 at PSINet Stadium. Baltimore (5-3) gets two field goals from Matt Stover, who has scored the team’s past 40 points. Oct. 22, 1988: Bowie State’s...

In need of OL depth, Ravens re-sign G Tony Bergstrom, release CB Tony McRae

Ravens coach John Harbaugh said Friday that he anticipated adding another offensive lineman to the active roster before Sunday’s road game against the Minnesota Vikings. The team did that Saturday with a familiar face. Guard Tony Bergstrom re-joined the team after two days as a free agent. He had...

5 former presidents call for unity at hurricane relief concert in Texas

The five living former presidents put aside politics and appeared together for the first time since 2013 at a concert on Saturday to raise money for victims of devastating hurricanes in Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Democrats Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and...

After the swift fall of Harvey Weinstein, Trump accusers wonder: Why not him?

Almost a year after New Yorker Jessica Leeds and other women stepped forward with harrowing accounts of being sexually assaulted by a powerful man, another scandal with similar elements exploded. Only this time, the punishment was swift and devastating. "It is hard to reconcile that Harvey Weinstein...

DeVos rescinds 72 guidance documents outlining rights for students with disabilities

The Education Department has rescinded 72 policy documents that outline the rights of students with disabilities as part of the Trump administration's effort to eliminate regulations it deems superfluous. The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services wrote in a newsletter Friday that...

Find: Halloween events around Baltimore

Oct. 27-29: ZooBOOO! at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore

Oct. 28: Great Halloween Lantern Parade and Festival at Creative Alliance

‘Broken Windows’ theory in practice at Baltimore Central Booking

The “broken windows” theory of crime-fighting claims that cracking down on petty offenses — public urination, loitering and, well, broken windows — can save neighborhoods from experiencing more serious crimes. While the concept has been widely disputed, Maryland prison officials seized upon it...

Lawmakers plan hearings on spike in assaults at psychiatric hospital

State lawmakers said Tuesday that they will hold hearings to investigate the spike in assaults on staff members at the state’s largest psychiatric hospital, after The Baltimore Sun detailed the increase. The Sun showed that assaults on staff at Spring Grove Hospital Center in Catonsville nearly...

Maryland sees drop in motorists illegally passing school buses as students board and exit

Maryland school bus drivers saw a decrease in the number of drivers illegally passing their buses when the stop arm was extended last year, according to a survey sponsored by the state Department of Education. Stop arms, or automated flashing stop signs, extend from the sides of school buses whenever...

Baltimore's trolleys during the Great Depression

Photo retrospective of Bethlehem Steel, Sparrows Point

Bob Hamilton: My 45-year journey through photography