Displaying items 121-132 of 10950
» View baltimoresun.com items only
< Previous
1-10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21-913
Next >
-
Mary Alma Lears, Walters docent
Mary Alma O'Connor Lears, a former Walters Art Museum volunteer guide whose keen eyes alerted officials to a $1 million theft later linked to a gallery security guard, died of lung disease Jan. 24 at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The Towson and former Roland...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Walters Art Museum, Govans, Respiratory Disease, Roland Park
-
Super Bowl showdowns: the Ravens defense vs. Colin Kaepernick and the 49ers' pistol offense
Each day this week, Baltimore Sun reporter and blogger Matt Vensel will break down a key matchup from Sunday’s Super Bowl. Today, he looks at the challenge of defending Colin Kaepernick and the pistol offense. In their stunning run to Super Bowl...
Tags: Tim Tebow, Green Bay Packers, Alfred Morris, St. Louis Rams, Jim Harbaugh
-
Pakistan coming apart at the seams
Distracted by the deadly violence in Mali and Algeria, no one seems to be paying adequate attention to the tragicomedy under way in Pakistan. This matters because recent events demonstrate without equivocation that Pakistan is an utterly failed state --...
Tags: Government, Asif Ali Zardari, National Government, Yousuf Raza Gilani, Taliban
-
Campaign rules for federal employees get an update
Even as Congress and the White House appeared to be at a standoff over the fiscal cliff last month, lawmakers and the president were able to agree on at least one thing: an update of the Hatch Act.
The 1939 law prohibits federal employees and certain...Tags: Andrew Johnson, Public Officials, Local Government, Judges, Government
-
Fox dumps Sarah Palin after three-year misadventure in news
The Baltimore SunCall it another pitiful ending for Sarah Palin. In what looks like a Friday afternoon leak-dump, RealClearPolitics first reported that Fox News had not renewed Palin's contract to be an analyst. That report was based on an unnamed source. Brian...Tags: Roger Ailes , Kate Gosselin, Fox News Channel (tv network), Sarah Palin
-
Guilford youth may be nation's youngest football broadcaster
When it comes to football, you might say Cullen Little is in a league of his own. The Guilford youth was 8 when he first watched his father, Stephen, play in an online fantasy football league in 2010, and thought to himself, "Whoa! What's this?" At...
Tags: Michael Crabtree, Joe Buck, Under Armour Inc., Fantasy Football Games, Vernon Davis
-
Richard Ben Cramer, Pulitzer Prize winner, dies at 62
Richard Ben Cramer, a former Baltimore Sun reporter who later became a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for The Philadelphia Inquirer and an acclaimed author chronicling the lives of politicians and legendary sports figures, died Monday of...
Tags: Biography (genre), Frontline Limited, The Philadelphia Inquirer, George H.W. Bush, William Donald Schaefer
-
Baltimore photographers drop Instagram amid concerns that photos could appear in ads
While many average users of Instagram are taking a wait-and-see approach after widespread complaints about its new privacy policy, a few Baltimore photographers are already pulling the plug on the popular photo-sharing service. The changes go into...
Tags: Social Media, The Washington Post, Cell Phones, Mia Farrow, Ryan Seacrest
-
Hobbit movie splits critics' reviews
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, has split the critics, creating a gulf as vast as the one separating Bilbo Baggins and Gollum. Such criticism could be expected from a movie that kicks off a trilogy -- yet is drawn from a novel that ran all of about 330...
Tags: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Movies, The Washington Post, Andy Serkis, Apple iPhone
-
Donnie Andrews, inspiration for Omar character on 'The Wire,' dies
Like the television character he helped inspire, Donnie Andrews lived by a code. In his earlier years when he was robbing rival dealers as a young hustler in West Baltimore — experiences that would later form the basis for the popular Omar...
Tags: The Wire (tv program), Shootings, Punishment, Authors, Sonja Sohn
-
What does the NRA say now?
The rifle Adam Lanza used to kill 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School is a descendant of the military's M-16 rifle. The bullets it fires are not as large as those used in some other rifles, but the gun's high muzzle velocity makes...
Tags: MSNBC (tv network), Criminals, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Assault
-
A small step against obesity in Howard Co.
Howard County's new ban on the sale of sugary drinks on government property won't solve the obesity epidemic. It won't prevent Howard Countians from slurping down empty calories by the Big Gulpful. It won't stop them from eating things that are even...
Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Renee Foose, Healthy Diet, Restaurants, Weight
Jan 28, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jan 28, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jan 28, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jan 27, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jan 25, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jan 25, 2013
|Story| Patuxent Homestead
Jan 9, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Dec 18, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Dec 14, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Dec 14, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Dec 17, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Dec 12, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Original site for The New York Times topic gallery.
