Despite frigid temperatures, with wind chills that dipped into the negative numbers, Baltimore City Police reported 13 shootings in Baltimore over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. Three people died and 11 were injured. The incidents occurred in different parts of the city, from St. George’s...
Rep. Elijah Cummings, who has long sought to learn how the Trump administration came to develop a census question asking people their citizenship status, said Tuesday that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross will testify before the Baltimore Democrat’s Committee on Oversight and Reform. Ross is expected...
The heroin epidemic in Harford County is as serious as it has been in the last few years and the main law enforcement agency is trying everything possible to curb the problem. “We’re going to keep fighting on all fronts,” Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler said. “We have hope that our efforts will pay off...
Tuesday's Patterson at Lake Clifton boys basketball game has been postponed because of a water main break near the school. The game, which was scheduled to follow the 3:30 p.m. junior varsity game — tentatively at 5:15 — will be rescheduled to Wednesday. The JV game will be at 3:30 with the varsity...
Government shutdowns are often compared to hostage-takings for good reason. Vulnerable innocents are hurt, money is expected to trade hands, perpetrators treat their victims with contempt. But at Day 32, the circumstances of this nation’s longest such budget crisis feel more like a suicide pact....
Senators and delegates who represent Baltimore residents in the Maryland General Assembly talk a good game about restoring the public’s faith and confidence in the Baltimore Police Department (BPD). If they were serious about it, however, they would sponsor a local bill this session lifting the...
Maryland is one of 26 states that have infringed on residents’ First Amendment rights by restricting companies that support a boycott of Israel from being eligible to bid for state contracts. These restrictions specifically target the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which according...
Though it is probably his most well-known speech, “I Have A Dream” is not my favorite of what Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. left us mulling over five decades after his assassination. But in that 1963 address, he did mention “the jangling discords of our nation” — and nothing could be more descriptive...
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Anne Arundel Medical Center announced Tuesday it will raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour for all employees, jumping ahead of a debate in this year’s General Assembly. The Annapolis-based health system said the change will begin immediately and affect t about 1,100 of its 4,850 employees, who...
A Chevy Chase company that made millions of dollars from deals with victims of lead poisoning targeted an “entire generation of youth coming of age in Baltimore” with its deceptive practices, Maryland’s top law enforcement official alleges. But even if a lawsuit filed by Attorney General Brian...
It’s never easy to re-enter society upon being released from prison, and even ex-offenders lucky enough to secure a job right away face a challenge few may know about: It can take weeks for their first paycheck to arrive. In the interim, many face the temptation to chase “fast money” in the streets...
McCormick & Co. is changing its format for predicting flavor trends, announcing this week that it’s discontinuing its annual Flavor Forecast report in favor of an online series of podcasts and videos to be updated quarterly. The Hunt Valley spice maker has been publishing a report on flavor trends...
Diners walked up a flight of steps to reach Mee Jun Low, the Chinese restaurant whose regular patrons loved its seedy bohemian atmosphere and its affordable prices. Its fame crested in the 1960s and early 1970s when lines formed outside the door at 219 W. Mulberry St., above the Brass Towne antiques...
Oscar voters on Tuesday showered Alfonso Cuaron's "Roma" and Yorgos Lanthimos' "The Favourite" with a leading 10 nominations to the 91st Academy Awards, while two dominant but contentious Hollywood forces — Netflix and Marvel — each scored their first best picture nomination. Though many expected...
Go ahead and cancel your bus tickets to New York. Two of the most acclaimed musicals of the past few years will anchor the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center’s 2019-2020 season, the venue’s president announced Thursday. “The Band’s Visit,” which in 2018 became one of just four musicals to capture...
What retirement? Ed Asner, who originated the character of Lou Grant in the beloved 1970s-era newspaper drama bearing his name and before that, in “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” — Ed Asner, who so memorably portrayed Santa Claus in the 2003 film “Elf” and whose voice starred in the 2009 Pixar animated...
It was a hot summer day in May 1827, and Johann Maelzel’s robot exhibition was not going well. Crowds had gathered inside Baltimore’s Fountain Inn on Light Street to see the star of the show, a European chess-playing robot (or “automaton,” in the language of the era) that had impressed the likes...
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The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra musicians’ four-month contract extension expired late Tuesday. On the surface, nothing much has changed. The players aren’t on strike and management hasn’t locked them out. The concerts scheduled for this weekend will be performed as planned in Baltimore and Bethesda,...
As kids, Isaac Carr and Israel Thomas grew up playing the same video game: Super Smash Bros. Melee on the Nintendo GameCube. To win, a player must knock his or her opponent off a virtual stage using kicks, jabs, jumps and other moves that the gamers dictate with nothing but their fingers. On a...
The Maryland General Assembly is back in full swing in Annapolis, and so are the lobbyists looking to educate lawmakers about their issues over lunch, dinner and, perhaps, wine. The Department of Legislative Services compiles a weekly “protocol calendar” of social events that lobbyists host for...
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered each year in January for giving his life while leading the charge to attain full civil rights for black Americans. But it’s also important to remember how King was perceived by the very power structure he hoped to reform — as a national security threat...
The Maryland Park Service is eliminating several dozen park-unique social media accounts, consolidating its messaging on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram into single accounts, much to the chagrin of parkgoers who like and want park-specific information. Word of the consolidation came on Twitter...