In the course of two years, the Baltimore Health Department wasted $170,000 that it raised by fining landlords for lead paint violations and charging attorneys for records to use in lead lawsuits, an investigation by the city’s inspector general found. The money — which amounted to half the funds...
When six-time All-Star and Twin Cities native Joe Mauer announced his retirement Monday, it wasn’t front-page news around here, but it was the end of an era for the Minnesota Twins and the end of an incredible journey for Baltimore-based sports agent Ron Shapiro. Shapiro still wears a lot of hats....
Dulaney High School Performing Arts offered its Fall Orchestra and Choral Concert in honor of Rob Hiaasen, an editor for the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, who was killed in June in the attack on the newsroom. Rob was the husband of Maria Hiaasen, beloved English and journalism teacher...
Ravens coach John Harbaugh is trying to be coy about which quarterback, veteran Joe Flacco (hip injury) or rookie Lamar Jackson, will be his starter Sunday, but Cincinnati Bengals coach Marvin Lewis probably doesn’t care. He has he is own problems to be worried about. The Bengals have owned Flacco...
The National Museum in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, suffered a devastating fire in September that consumed one of the most important museum collections in the Americas — a national and international catastrophe the likes of which the museum world has rarely seen. The loss is incalculable not only for...
Here’s a sobering statistic: At current smoking rates, roughly 92,000 kids now under 18 in Maryland will die prematurely from smoking. Think for a moment of the unnecessary suffering, lost potential and devastated families left behind. But state lawmakers can act now to save many of these children...
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has just demanded that the state of Maryland redraw its congressional district map due to unacceptable partisan gerrymandering. Writing for the majority of the panel and joined by District Judge George L. Russell III, Circuit...
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...
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More than 1.1 million Marylanders will travel for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, the most in more than a dozen years, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic projections. It’s the fourth straight year the auto club has projected Thanksgiving travel volumes of more than 1 million people in Maryland. Roughly...
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...
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...
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...
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,”...
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...