Maryland General Assembly leaders are considering a fast-track proposal under which lawmakers would legalize betting on football, basketball and other sports without first seeking voter approval in the 2020 election. A voter-approved referendum has long been considered a precursor for Maryland...
A traveling hospital technician who was sentenced to 39 years in prison for infecting patients in multiple states with hepatitis C through tainted syringes has asked a federal judge to vacate his sentence, saying his lawyer was ineffective in representing him. David Kwiatkowski, 39, was a cardiac...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a letter Wednesday it is ending its agreement with Anne Arundel County to house detainees at a correctional center in Glen Burnie. County Executive Steuart Pittman recently proposed using money from the program to pay for legal assistance for the...
Absent anything but a 2014 American League East championship banner and a couple of good years of attendance, the most lasting relic from the early-to-mid-decade Orioles clubs that now seem a distant memory was established three years ago Wednesday: the seven-year, $161 million contract with two-time...
I doubt Mickey Light ever met Joseph Campbell, the eminent scholar of myth and folklore, but I know of no one who better practiced what Campbell preached: “Follow your bliss. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you ...” When...
In early 1979, The Evening Sun ran a full-page ad announcing a new columnist lineup, including a promised thrice-weekly offering from a puppy-faced young reporter by the name of Dan Rodricks. “Dan Rodricks will slice bits and pieces of Baltimore and serve them up in a reporter’s stew. The column...
If Mayor Catherine Pugh’s political fortunes weren’t already tied to her selection of Baltimore’s next police commissioner, they definitely are now after she ignored widespread calls to engage in a more transparent, inclusive process once her first choice, Fort Worth Chief Joel Fitzgerald, backed...
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Domnio’s Pizza has been legally required to makes its app and website fully accessible to the visually impaired following a years-long legal battle with a blind customer who was left unable to order a pie with personalized toppings through his iPhone. Guillermo Robles in a lawsuit filed back in...
The office supply giant Staples plans to close its fulfillment center in Hanover, eliminating many of the 61 local positions, as it consolidates its regional warehouses, according to information from company and state officials. The company reported this week to the state Department of Labor, Licensing...
An Edgewood-based maker of testing devices for hazardous materials has won a contract worth up to $291 million from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to supply radiation monitors. Smiths Detection Inc. secured the contract from the department’s Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction office....
Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. announced the launch Wednesday of a free streaming TV service called STIRR that will include local and national channels and on-demand shows, a step the Hunt Valley-based TV station owner said would boost access to broadcast programming in a digital age. The streaming...
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,...
The Ejji Ramen restaurant in Belvedere Square is offering free meals to federal workers during the ongoing partial government shutdown. Federal workers with a valid government ID will be able to order a free Rice Bowl dish at the North Baltimore eatery, as well as at a second Ejji Ramen location...
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...
Baltimore’s Hampden neighborhood is home to one of the South’s best new bars, according to Garden & Gun magazine. The Bluebird Cocktail Room, the dimly lit bar known for artisanal drinks, literary references and elevated food, was the only Maryland establishment on the magazine’s list, published...
After several years of planning, the Bunzzz Sports Bar & Grill has begun serving diners in the Gallery at Harbor Place shopping mall. The first-floor eatery at 200 E. Pratt St. officially opened in early December in the same location vacated by Brooks Brothers in 2016. (The clothing store relocated...
Barry Jenkins, the writer-director of “Moonlight” and the newly released “If Beale Street Could Talk,” might not have a career were it not for the advice he received from writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, the Oscar-winning filmmaker said Thursday night. “’Moonlight’ and ‘Beale Street’ would not exist without...
Baltimore ski enthusiasts now have a new way to head for the slopes. Liftopia, the online mobile marketplace for winter sports fans, has begun organizing ski trips by bus in various cities — including two locations in the Baltimore area that will drop off passengers at Liberty Mountain Resort in...
Hollie Stephenson, head brewer for the Guinness Open Gate Brewery & Barrel House in Halethorpe, has been named 2019 Beer Person of the Year by "Imbibe" magazine. A photo of a smiling Stephenson standing inside the Baltimore County plant — the Irish beer maker’s first stateside brewery since 1954...
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...
As opioid overdose deaths continued to mount in Maryland last year, state lawmakers asked medical marijuana regulators to determine whether cannabis could be effective at treating addiction to heroin, fentanyl and oxycodone. The answer — not really — was submitted to the General Assembly this week...
For decades, people living with disabilities could not save more than $2,000 without running the risk of losing key benefits, including their Supplemental Security Income. But following Maryland’s adoption of a recent change in the federal tax code, it reported that about 1,000 disabled individuals...