Houston Astros assistant general manager Mike Elias is poised to become the Orioles’ next head of baseball operations, according to several news outlets. Elias was a key component in the successful rebuild of the 2017 World Series champion Astros as their scouting director and then assistant general...
WOW air is launching service to Delhi, India, via Iceland from BWI Marshall Airport next month, the Icelandic low-cost airline announced Wednesday. The airline is offering one-way tickets as low as $199.99 for flights between Jan. 5 and April 10. In addition to Baltimore, the initial pricing will...
A 31-year-old Morrell Park man died at the Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center last week after initially being taken to a hospital because of medical concerns, the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services said Tuesday. David Ott, who had been arrested by Baltimore...
The debate about wins and a pitcher’s team success is over. Jacob deGrom was the best pitcher in the National League in 2018, no question. The argument was settled Wednesday night when the Mets right hander was named the 2018 Cy Young Award winner. DeGrom won the ballot among voting members of...
The National Rifle Association’s arrogance struck a nerve last week when it scolded doctors for daring to state the obvious: that gun violence in America is a public health crisis. Apparently physicians weren’t supposed to notice that the gunshot wounds they try desperately to heal — too often...
The National Museum in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, suffered a devastating fire in September that consumed one of the most important museum collections in the Americas — a national and international catastrophe the likes of which the museum world has rarely seen. The loss is incalculable not only for...
Here’s a sobering statistic: At current smoking rates, roughly 92,000 kids now under 18 in Maryland will die prematurely from smoking. Think for a moment of the unnecessary suffering, lost potential and devastated families left behind. But state lawmakers can act now to save many of these children...
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has just demanded that the state of Maryland redraw its congressional district map due to unacceptable partisan gerrymandering. Writing for the majority of the panel and joined by District Judge George L. Russell III, Circuit...
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Baltimore County plans to offer up to $78 million in financial assistance to help Tradepoint Atlantic build the roads and water and sewer lines needed for the redevelopment of the former Bethlehem Steel mill in Sparrows Point. County Executive Don Mohler announced the financial package Wednesday,...
More than 1.1 million Marylanders will travel for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, the most in more than a dozen years, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic projections. It’s the fourth straight year the auto club has projected Thanksgiving travel volumes of more than 1 million people in Maryland. Roughly...
Amazon’s selection of Northern Virginia for part of its massive expansion should benefit Maryland, but experts don’t expect many of those benefits to extend north to Baltimore. After weighing hundreds of bids for the company’s second headquarters, the online retail behemoth announced Tuesday that...
The drawn-out theater of Amazon's decision Tuesday to split its second headquarters between New York's Long Island City and suburban Virginia's Crystal City was met with a maelstrom of criticism from some local officials and professionals. While Amazon has touted the prosperity the headquarters...
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra announced late Tuesday that concertmaster Jonathan Carney’s suspension will continue through Sunday. In a statement, the BSO cited Carney’s “behaving in an unprofessional manner and exercising poor judgment.” The news came the same day a judge denied a peace order...
Meeting your heroes can be disappointing. But Stan Lee lived up to his billing. The overseer of the Marvel Universe, co-creator (and Stan never claimed to be a solo act) of every superhero therein from Spider-Man and the Mighty Thor to Black Panther and The Wasp, a force in the comic-book industry...
Baltimore native and “Rent” actress Tracie Thoms will return to Maryland this month to perform in a theater production that fuses a 5th-century tragedy with modern day issues of race and injustice at the University of Maryland’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Thoms will perform as Antigone...
Editor's note: This article was originally published on Aug. 18, 2011. Stan Lee is one proud father these days. You'd be proud, too, if your progeny included Spider-Man, Iron Man, Thor and the Fantastic Four — characters whose films routinely bring in a few hundred million dollars at the movie...
Looking for the perfect Christmas gift for the Baltimore sports fan in your life? Here’s a present that will serve as the ultimate stocking stuffer. The new “You Gotta Know Baltimore” sports trivia game tests avid lovers of Charm City sports with 500 questions on the players, coaches, games and...
More than a year after a 17-year-old cat named Stanley received a kidney transplant that cost his owner $19,000, the black and white kitty continues to thrive. Betsy Boyd, who directs the master’s degree program in creative writing and publishing at the University of Baltimore, on Sunday wrote...
President Donald J. Trump on Friday called White House correspondent and CNN political analyst April Ryan a “loser” and “nasty,” and hinted that he is considering revoking press credentials of journalists. The comments came after Trump had heated exchanges with Ryan, CNN chief White House correspondent...
Baltimore’s celebration of the end of World War I began in the early morning of Nov. 11, 1918. “With the coming of the first light of a perfect day, the misty light that begins at dawn, the whistles began to ring and bells began to peel out their message that peace again had returned to the world,”...
Close to a third of Maryland workers who filed injury compensation claims in recent years continued to rely on highly addictive opioid painkillers three months after they were hurt, according to a recent study by University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers. Excessive use of painkillers...
Maryland may have allowed residents who did not qualify for Medicaid into the government health program for the poor by failing to consider all of their income, according to a routine audit of the quasi-governmental agency that oversees the Maryland health exchange. The Maryland Health Benefit...
The number of black students who enrolled at the University of Maryland this fall dropped sharply, according to data released by the school Wednesday. African-American representation in the new freshman class dropped to at least an eight-year low, the data show. Just 7.3 percent of the new freshman...