A Maryland Legal Aid attorney claims an officer in the Harford County Sheriff’s Office was racially motivated when he mistook the lawyer for a suspect, detained him in the courthouse and questioned him. Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey R. Gahler has said his office is investigating the allegation....
The Maryland General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to pass a $46.6 billion budget that increases funding for education by more than what Gov. Larry Hogan proposed — but not as much as some school advocates desired. The Senate voted 47-0 and the House of Delegates voted 123-12 to pass the...
Local prosecutors will continue to pursue hate-crime charges in the fatal stabbing of a black Army lieutenant at the University of Maryland at the state level, after the FBI decided not to pursue charges at the federal level. “Maryland has a separate statute on hate crimes, and it does not affect...
Lonny H. Weaver, a former longtime Carroll County Times outdoors writer who also wrote for The Sun’s Anne Arundel County zoned edition, died Saturday of kidney and heart disease at his New Windsor home. He was 72. Lonny Howard Weaver who was the son of G. Howard Weaver, a Black & Decker administrator,...
The No. 4 Gilman lacrosse team took the early initiative at Hereford on Tuesday and played efficient throughout in an 8-1 win over the No. 14 Bulls in its final nonconference game before the start of Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference play on Friday. Senior goalie Noah Klein...
The reporters come at Rui Hachimura in waves of notepads, microphones and cameras with glaring lights. They spot him in the back corner of the locker room, dressed in a gray T-shirt and shorts after practice, his thick frame folded into a small chair. He sneaks a few bites of pasta from a Styrofoam...
Nikolas Cruz ended 17 lives within mere minutes when he opened fire with an AR-15 rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., last February, but the reach of his actions continues to devastate so many more. News that two survivors of the massacre committed suicide within the...
One of the more gaping loopholes in Maryland’s ongoing efforts to keep dangerous weapons off the streets got a a step closer to being closed this week with the Senate’s approval of legislation to eliminate the Maryland Handgun Permit Review Board. By a 30-16 vote on Monday, the Senate agreed that...
Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, has bigger concerns right now — and so does the mayor of Baltimore — but, when time allows, they might want to give some attention to an old fire boat that was named for Pelosi’s late father when he was mayor of Baltimore. They might want to see that it’s...
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Uber on Tuesday introduced in Baltimore its “Ride Pass,” a $25 monthly subscription that allows users to lock in discounted trip prices unaffected by surge pricing, time of day, traffic or weather. The pass removes the uncertainty of late-night or rush-hour pricing — and can result in savings of...
Downtown Baltimore had a decent year in 2018 — not great, but not bad — according to an annual scorecard be released Tuesday morning by the Downtown Partnership. Office vacancies rose a little, retail spending dropped a lot, but new office and apartment towers opened where there were once parking...
The parent company for Shoppers Food & Pharmacy stores plans to sell the grocery chain this year, spurring fears the popular chain could be closing stores in the near future. Executives with United Natural Foods Inc., which purchased the chain’s previous parent company Supervalu for $2.9 billion...
The Baltimore City Council gave preliminary approval Monday to legislation that would set rules for dockless scooters and bicycles on city streets. The vote followed an earlier hiccup in the city Department of Transportation’s regulation proposal which, after a backlash, was amended to remove a...
Talk about being a native invader. The singer-songwriter Tori Amos, who studied piano at the Peabody Preparatory Institute as a child, will deliver the Peabody Conservatory’s commencement address in late May. Amos will receive the 2019 George Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music...
The Shriver Hall Concert Series announced its 2019-2020 season on March 26, marking the first full season to be held in their newly renovated hall located on the Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus since its reopening earlier this month. The programming choices reflect a mission to honor...
For two months, the story of what happened to “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett on a frigid January night in downtown Chicago has transfixed the nation with its many plot twists. On Tuesday, the script was flipped yet again — and in many ways it only added to the mystery. In a stunning reversal, Cook...
Two new vegan restaurants and a ramen place are coming to a luxury apartment building along the Inner Harbor. Utseke Ramen is set to open this May at 414 Light St., said Stephen Gorn, CEO of Questar Properties. And this summer will see the arrival of two plant-based eateries, Plant Food + Wine...
After a plastic surgeon’s office botched her dermal fillers, Tima Barkeshli found a different destination for cosmetic treatments: her dentist’s office. From his suite in Columbia, Dr. Javod Gol is among the ranks of dentists who are increasingly treating not only the teeth, but everything that...
“In this very polite Maryland atmosphere we write things,” Zelda Fitzgerald wrote in a letter while she was living in Towson. Zelda and her husband, F. Scott, came to Baltimore several times in the 1930s. Many Baltimoreans are no doubt already familiar with the story: Perhaps the most famous muse...
Gusty winds are expected to continue sweeping the region Friday after heavy rains caused some flooding in the Baltimore area. The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory from 1 p.m Friday until 5 a.m. on Saturday in portions of the far northwest Baltimore-Washington suburbs. Winds during...
When Michelle and Greg Webb bought their two-story, five-bedroom house in Pasadena’s Ventnor neighborhood in 2013, they knew they’d found the perfect home. It was located in a good school district, 30-minute commute from Michelle’s job at TEK Systems in Hanover, and it had a first-floor master...
Tens of thousands of Mayor Catherine Pugh’s “Healthy Holly” children’s books have not been accounted for by the institution that paid for them or the mayor, even as public pressure builds amid accusations of “self-dealing” at the University of Maryland Medical System. From 2011 through 2018, the...
Maryland has the second highest percentage of failed public housing inspections in the country, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Thursday. The report, which evaluated the inspection process by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, shows that Maryland properties...
For the past year, Maryland has been a global gateway for American natural gas extracted from the ground through hydraulic fracturing, or fracking — despite the state’s ban on the controversial process within its own borders. Fracked gas from Pennsylvania and other states is being piped to an export...