The Baltimore County government is offering details of its $78 million financial assistance package for Tradepoint Atlantic, designed to help build roads, water lines and sewer pipes at the site of a former steel mill in Sparrows Point. County Executive Don Mohler is expected to formally announce...
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...
A fire at an apartment complex in Parkville sent one man to the hospital, according to the Baltimore County Fire Department. The fire started on the first floor of an apartment complex on the 7700 block of Hillendale Road. The call initially came out at 8:40 p.m. as smoke in the hallway, according...
Le’Veon Bell won't play in 2018. The star running back declined to sign his one-year $14.4 million franchise tender with the Pittsburgh Steelers by Tuesday's deadline, making him ineligible to suit up for the AFC North-leading Steelers or anyone else this season. The unusual decision to sit out...
Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress love to demonize government handouts. But their own red-state supporters depend on these handouts. And the handouts are increasingly financed by the inhabitants of blue states. The federal program Temporary Assistance for Needy Families -- what we used to...
In 1977, a young playwright and Yale drama student named Wendy Wasserstein wrote her first play, “Uncommon Women and Others,” featuring an all-female cast. “I can’t get into this,” said a man in the audience. “It’s all about girls.” Wasserstein went on to win both a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize...
In the celebrated words of Kris Kristofferson, "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." By that eloquent standard, few people are as free as the Catholic bishops of the United States, who come together this week in Baltimore for their annual meeting. In the aftermath of the recent...
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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...
If you’re looking to watch the Baltimore Orioles in spring training next year, Allegiant Air wants to get you there. The low-cost airline plans to add a twice weekly flight from BWI Marshall Airport to Sarasota, Fla., the O’s spring training home, starting Feb. 22. The new flights were announced...
Timonium-based Michele’s Granola has landed a national distribution deal with Whole Foods, which will sell its handmade granola at more than 350 stores across 28 states, according to a recent news release. This will mark the first time that the granola company, which has partnered with Whole Foods...
Christie's sold the "Pink Legacy" diamond at auction Tuesday for more than $50 million including fees, saying it's a new world record price per carat for a pink diamond. Christie's said renowned jeweler Harry Winston was the buyer. The auction house had expected to fetch $30 million to $50 million...
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...
Stan Lee, the creative dynamo who revolutionized the comic book and helped make billions for Hollywood by introducing human frailties in superheroes such as Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and the Incredible Hulk, died Monday. He was 95. Lee was declared dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los...
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,”...
City officials and community members will meet Tuesday to discuss the fate and legality of the Midtown-Belvedere mural of “Hairspray” actor and drag queen Divine during a public hearing hosted by the Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation (CHAP). The mural, painted by Baltimore-based...
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...