Baltimore Mayor Catherine E. Pugh has chosen Fort Worth police chief Joel Fitzgerald to be the city’s next police commissioner. If confirmed by the City Council, Baltimore would become the fourth city in five years where he’s held the top police spot. Here’s what we know about Fitzgerald: » Fitzgerald’s...
When Jeff Luhnow took over the general manager's job in Houston after helping build the St. Louis Cardinals farm system, he didn't go alone — he brought new Orioles general manager Mike Elias with him. Elias was one of Luhnow’s first hires, bringing him along as a special assistant before installing...
An anonymous group of women that included faculty and medical residents warned top University of Maryland, Baltimore officials in January that prominent surgeons had inappropriate sexual relationships with subordinates and created a “hostile work environment” in the medical school and its affiliated...
NO. 7 JAMES MADISON (7-3 overall and 5-2 in the Colonial Athletic Association) @ NO. 15 TOWSON (7-3, 5-2) When: Saturday, 2 p.m. Site: Johnny Unitas Stadium TV: College Sports Live Radio: CBS Sports Radio 1300 AM Series: James Madison leads, 19-6-1 What’s at stake: Towson’s 41-10 rout at then-No....
MIAMI -- Sen. Marco Rubio, the Florida Republican, had the best line when it comes to the latest Florida election in which contests for governor and the U.S. Senate are still undecided. Mr. Rubio tweeted: "Bay County was hit by a Cat 4 Hurricane just 4 weeks ago, yet managed to count votes & submit...
In the balcony of Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre last week, during intermission of a performance of “Fiddler on the Roof,” a man began shouting “Heil Hitler, Heil Trump.” Audience member Rich Scherr said “people started running, I’ll be honest, I was waiting to hear a gunshot. I thought, ‘Here...
Under Maryland law, you can be charged with disorderly conduct for “willfully [acting] in a disorderly manner that disturbs the public peace.” Baltimore police are well aware of the statute — a misdemeanor that carries a maximum of a $500 fine and 60 days in jail. The Department of Justice found...
U.S.District Court Judge Timothy J. Kelly today ruled in CNN’s favor in its lawsuit against the Trump administration and ordered the White House to immediately restore correspondent Jim Acosta’s press pass. The pass was suspended last week after a contentious exchange at a Trump press conference...
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Reed Cordish, who left his family’s development firm for a year-long stint leading a White House effort on infrastructure and government innovation, plans to announce that he has invested in a five-year-old Baltimore-based sports management agency. PFS Agency represents players in the National...
The state’s unemployment rate was 4.1 percent in October, down a tenth of a percent from the previous month’s rate and 0.2 percent from a year before, numbers that are historically low but remain above the national average. The national unemployment rate was 3.7 percent for October, down about...
Federal regulators considering the proposed magnetic levitation or “maglev” train between Washington and Baltimore — which backers say could cut travel between the two cities to 15 minutes — have narrowed the list of potential station locations in both cities. In Baltimore, a potential station...
Airbnb had its best quarter ever, even as cities across the U.S. have started clamping down on the short-term rental market. Revenue during the third quarter breezed past the $1 billion level as guest reservations boomed internationally in places like Beijing, Mexico City and Birmingham, England,...
Comedian Amy Schumer revealed she’s been hospitalized with a pregnancy complication but assured fans she’s doing OK. The comic, who is currently expecting her first child, was forced to cancel a scheduled performance in Texas due to Hyperemesis Gravidarum, a condition that often involves serious...
Port Discovery Children’s Museum is slated to open two new immersive exhibits and several improved amenities in late spring of next year and will begin construction in January, according to a recent release. Beginning on Jan. 2, the museum will work to replace its current Kidworks exhibit with...
Camp John Waters, a chance for determined reprobates to make like one of the best, will be returning in summer 2019. Set for Sept. 13-16 in the Berkshire Mountains of Connecticut, the sleepover camp for adults 21 and older “promises to be dirtier, filthier, raunchier and longer than ever before,"...
A man shocked theatergoers and alarmed members of Baltimore’s Jewish community when he shouted a pro-Nazi and pro-Trump salute during a performance at the Hippodrome Theatre on Wednesday night. The incident, during which the man shouted “Heil Hitler, Heil Trump,” was especially notable because...
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Thanksgiving is a holiday often marked by selflessness and giving. Every year provides a range of opportunities to do just that. Here’s a list of places to volunteer and donate that can make someone’s holiday that much better. Bea Gaddy Family Centers will be hosting a series of one-time volunteer...
World War I left America with newfound might. As if to prove it, on Nov. 16, 1918 — five days after hostilities ceased — Navy’s football team went out and thrashed its opponent, 127-0. Pity Ursinus College, from Collegeville, Pa., the victim of that rout at Farragut Field in Annapolis. Navy, coached...
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...
Maryland’s judiciary fielded 114 requests to remove firearms from individuals in October, the first month the state’s new “red flag” gun safety law went into effect. Those requests results in guns being removed at least temporarily in a majority of cases and longer in 36 cases in which judges granted...
Black elementary school students who have black teachers are significantly more likely to enroll in college, according to a research paper co-authored by a Johns Hopkins University professor. A working paper published this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that black students...
In the past six years, nearly 200 prisoners, mostly geriatric men convicted of rape and murder, have been set free in Maryland. Only one of them has been arrested again, researchers for the Justice Policy Institute have found. The Washington, D.C., nonprofit is pointing to those released under...