The dream of many Maryland men’s basketball fans — playing Duke again — lives. With their first postseason victory in three years, the Terps are two wins away from a possible matchup with the Blue Devils in next week’s Elite Eight at Capital One Arena in Washington. While most assume that Duke,...
Members of a key Senate committee are expected to vote Friday on a bill that would allow terminally ill Marylanders to request medication they could take to end their life. The House of Delegates has already approved a version of the measure after an emotional debate earlier this month. But the...
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The Western Acceptance Facility (WAF) in Halethorpe reopened Friday at 10 a.m. after “flooding conditions” kept it closed early in the morning, Baltimore County officials said. “We are monitoring the weather for the remainder of the day. We are optimistic and we don’t know of any damages,” T.J....
Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter and a powerful White House aide, did not preserve all of her official emails as required by federal law, and her husband, Jared Kushner, used a messaging application to conduct U.S. business outside government channels, the chairman of the House Oversight...
Sami Chenoweth has been so good at causing turnovers that her teammates on the Towson women’s lacrosse team have begun to question the physical properties of the stick that she uses. “They say my stick is like a magnet,” the Manchester resident and Manchester Valley graduate said with a laugh....
As ESPN’s Twitter account duly noted, Saturday was the one-year anniversary of Virginia’s historic NCAA tournament demise against UMBC. Kyle Guy was among those who retweeted the memory. When Duke students started a GoFundMe account to fly former UMBC guard K.J. Maura to January’s U.Va.-Duke game...
This month, hundreds of thousands of students participated in a world-wide “Walkout for Climate Change,” an effort to bring about more action to combat the negative effects humans are having upon the planet. I honestly commend them for their efforts. That said, the world is facing a far greater...
The epidemic of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates that has already broken out, not to mention at least one Republican challenge to President Trump, assures a marathon slow dance to next year's national party conventions. By the time the Democratic National Committee holds its first presidential...
Robert "Beto" O'Rourke's biggest fans and supporters insist he is a forward-thinking, future-oriented visionary, but no contender for the Democratic nomination feels more familiar than the former three-term congressman from El Paso. That's because he has the highest combined score in both déjà...
The late, brilliant comedian Joan Rivers’ favorite catchphrase was “Grow up!” It was said in jest, but meant in earnest to wake her shocked audiences from their stupor long enough to realize that her comedic targets were doing horrible things all the time. It is in this same spirit that I urge...
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A developer plans to build a 62-unit apartment building with ground level shops downtown now that city’s officials have approved sale of the Gay Street properties near Power Plant Live. LRP Guardian House LLC will pay $1.24 million to the city for the buildings at 17-23 South Gay Street and 10...
The Maryland General Assembly gave its final approval Wednesday to legislation increasing the state’s minimum wage to $15 per hour. The measure will go next to Gov. Larry Hogan, who opposes such a significant increase. But both the House of Delegates and the Senate approved the bill with more than...
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...
In a quiet pocket of Southern Maryland where beach bungalows line dirt roads to the Chesapeake Bay, the nation’s booming natural gas industry has established an unlikely multibillion-dollar foothold. For a year now, natural gas pulled from ancient shale formations deep below the surface of Pennsylvania...
A new restaurant set to open next month in Crofton will bring a dish more commonly associated with Canada than Maryland, and deep connections to the music business. AshlingKitchen & Bar is set to open April 2 at 1286 Route 3 S., the former location of longtime local favorite Christophers. Owners...
What surely must be Baltimore’s funkiest-looking chicken wings will be coming this spring with the planned opening of The Civil in Mount Vernon. The “24-carat” Civil Wings “are simply delicious,” promises Krystal Washington, who will be running the private dining experience on the mezzanine level...
These upcoming culinary events offer a glimpse of the cultural heritage behind the dishes served. Masarap Fadensonnen Pop-Up Authentic Filipino cuisine at a beer garden? We’ll take it. Chef Rey Eugenio, formerly of Point South, is whipping up hearty, flavorful dishes such as coconut red curry with...
The weather is warming, the birds are chirping and the days are getting longer -- spring is upon us in Baltimore. Here are some of the best ways to enjoy the spring season in Charm City and beyond.
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...
Some 300 plants star in the lush, green posts of Hilton Carter’s Instagram feed, which, with 160,000 followers, made him a social-media green interior design star, gained him residential plant styling clients and led to a book deal. The Baltimore native, whose plants are split between his “Jungle...
Step out David Boteach’s front door and a gentle world beckons — one filled with wondrous plants, waterfalls and whimsical bronze busts of fauna peeking over the leafy flora. Here sit two frogs shyly holding hands beside a lily pond; there stands a blue heron looking past a cinnamon-skinned paperbark...
You’ve lived in the same city for several years, but you’ve probably never explored all of it. Are there places that you’ve avoided because you think they might be too touristy? Have you meant to hit a cool-sounding spot but have simply not gotten around to it? This is a great time to play tourist...
It was a powerful moment during the General Assembly’s debate over an armed police force at Johns Hopkins University. U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings came to Annapolis and told state lawmakers that his nephew, a promising law student, was killed eight years ago at college in Virginia. Cummings didn’t...
While many governments across Maryland charge 25 or 50 cents a page for copies of public documents, police departments' fees are several times as much. Police commonly require $5 or $10 for copies of accident or incident reports, even for a single page. Fees run higher in Baltimore County, which...
Baltimore’s Human Trafficking Collaborative is hosting an event next month aimed at helping people who are typical targets for being forced into labor and sexual exploitation. The year-old organization has one major hurdle: The people who are most vulnerable often don’t know it until after they...