The mail had just been delivered, and Angela Patten was sitting by a window in her dining room going through it. Suddenly, a bullet blasted through the other window in the room, struck mirrored tiles on the wall across from it and, she would later learn, ricocheted into the corner where she had...
A woman and her 9-year-old son were killed and her 5-year-old daughter was injured in a crash in Woodlawn late Thursday, Baltimore County Police said. The woman, Tanja Tanesha Shields, 29, was driving a 2017 Nissan Altima westbound on Gwynn Oak Avenue around 11:05 p.m. when she lost control of...
Greg Chimera has had the interim tag removed from his position and will be the full-time head coach of the Johns Hopkins football program, the university announced Friday. Chimera, a former fullback for the Blue Jays who graduated in 2009 with a degree in psychological and brain sciences and a...
Penn State athletic director Sandy Barbour, a Severn graduate and former Annapolis resident, received a contract extension through the 2022-23 academic year, the school announced Friday. In addition, Barbour will assume the title of vice president for intercollegiate athletics. Barbour has led...
Baltimore is not the only American city faced with the challenge of reducing violent crime. But those of us who care deeply about this great city are confronted with an urgent need for action to address this problem head-on. This is an all hands on deck moment. There are a number of strong proposals...
Some people would like to keep lynchings in the past. It happened so long ago, they will say. Why dredge up animosity from a generation ago? One reader wrote in a recent letter to the editor: Resentment can be stirred among white individuals who hold no racist views yet are being made to feel that...
The president's decision to declare a national emergency at the southern border was an act of weakness, not strength. I understand that's not the party line, but it's an obvious political fact. When Barack Obama used his pen to give "Dreamers" a reprieve from prosecution, it was an act of weakness,...
During the most recent court hearing on the consent decree designed to transform the Baltimore Police Department, U.S. District Court Judge James Bredar, who is overseeing its implementation, spoke of some impediments to the process thus far. He lamented the lack of a permanent police commissioner...
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Southwest Airlines flights were grounded for just under an hour Friday morning due to software issues, an airline spokesman said. The delays affected customers nationwide, including at BWI Marshall Airport. Southwest suspended operations for about 50 minutes as work was done on the airline’s software...
Under Armour CEO and founder Kevin Plank has sought business advice from MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle and flown the TV journalist on the private jet he leases to the Baltimore-based sports apparel company, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Citing current and former Under Armour executives,...
An ongoing dispute over regulating the alcohol industry in Maryland bubbled up Thursday, with the state’s comptroller and lawmakers offering dueling views of a bill that would change how liquor laws are enforced. Comptroller Peter Franchot said a proposal to move his inspectors and investigators...
One of the developers behind an ambitious project to transform a swath of Baltimore just east of downtown has been awarded a $3.37 million grant from the U.S. Treasury Department to help build affordable homes in the city’s Somerset neighborhood. Mission First Housing Group, one of the developers...
A gesture as simple as writing a check can have heroic consequences. The $900 that the Baltimore heiress and art patron Saidie Adler May filled out represents a modest sum, even viewed from the perspective of 1940. It’s the equivalent of $16,150 in 2019 dollars, or roughly the amount needed to...
If you’ve ever been watching a movie and thought “I’d love to go there!” — well, maybe you actually can. There are quite a few famous movie locations that you can actually visit around the world. Some of them might even be in your town! From 'Ferris Bueller’s Day Off' to 'Blade Runner,' there are...
Just about every town has some restaurants that aren’t easy to get into. You call on Tuesday, hoping for a table for two at 7 on Friday night, and are greeted with stifled laughter and the helpful information that there'll be something available at 5:30 three weeks hence. Well, that's normal for...
At the centerpiece of Deyane Moses’ exhibit is a shocking image: a racist caricature of a black employee of the Maryland Institute College of Art from the early 1900s. More shocking: It ran in the school’s yearbook. As schools across the United States are grappling with their own racist legacies,...
There comes a time for all young birds to leave the nest. That time has come for Hampden’s Little Bird. To make way for The Bluebird Cocktail Room’s planned expansion into the ground floor, the Little Bird Coffee Bar will close for good Sunday. Opened by the Bluebird team in August, Little Bird...
More than one-third of all North Americans take a multivitamin. But this trend could just be a force of habit — there’s some debate over whether these supplements are really necessary at all. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, from 1990 to 2006, the number of...
Given the fear of cancer and desperate attempts to avoid it, rumors have circulated about foods that “cause cancer.” The fact is no one food is going to cause cancer in a person — though certain foods eaten in excess over a long period of time can increase your risk. These 10 foods, though, do not cause...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, roughly 32 percent of Americans — one in three adults — has high blood pressure, also known as hypertension. That’s 70 million adults; another 70 million have prehypertension, or blood pressure that’s not quite high enough to be considered...
Recent public corruption convictions of eight Baltimore police officers on federal racketeering charges and the guilty plea for fraud of former city Del. Nathaniel Oaks may make Marylanders forget that it was public graft in the suburbs that led to the creation of the Maryland State Prosecutor’s...
Another former Baltimore school board member has landed a high-paying job with the school system. Tina Hike-Hubbard, who left the board in January 2018, was recently named the district’s chief of communications and community engagement. Starting in March, she will oversee community engagement,...
Almost nine months after Baltimore County Police officer Amy Caprio was struck and killed by a fleeing vehicle, attorneys continue to comb through a mountain of evidence collected in the case of four young men charged in her death. Included in the evidence are more than 50 CDs containing videos,...