Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh is planning to hold a news conference to address the controversy surrounding the $500,000 Healthy Holly book deal, once she is released from a hospital and healthy enough to appear in public, her spokesman said. Pugh was hospitalized over the weekend with pneumonia....
It seems as if it is only a matter of time before the Cleveland Browns are anointed AFC North champions, but never count out the Pittsburgh Steelers despite all the drama surrounding the team. The Browns have stockpiled a bunch of talent, both young and old, but the Steelers have 47-year-old coach...
Workers are repairing a gas line break that occurred Tuesday morning at the entrance to a parking lot at University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air. The gas line break, which happened as a contractor was widening the entrance to Lot M along West MacPhail Road, meant MacPhail...
Thirty Harford high school students were part of the Maryland All-State bands, orchestras or choruses this year. They were among the students selected from the 7,000 who audition every year for one of the musical groups sponsored by the Maryland Music Educators Association, and they were recognized...
He was “the other” defensive end for the Baltimore Colts in their heyday, the guy overshadowed by Hall of Fame-bound Gino “The Giant” Marchetti. But Ordell Braase was a star in his own right and, for 12 seasons, a pillar on a Colts team that won three NFL championships on his watch. Braase died...
UC Irvine’s Russell Turner issued a statement Monday acknowledging that his actions during a loss to Oregon on Sunday were “inappropriate and insensitive.” The ninth-year coach said after the Anteaters’ 73-54 defeat that, while shouting instructions to his team from the sideline, he repeatedly...
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...
Incarceration of individuals with Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) has been disastrous from the perspectives of public health and policy: It is associated with increased rates of violence, victimization and suicide while in custody, mortality after release and recidivism. If those who suffer from...
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McCormick & Co. Inc. beat profit expectations for the first quarter, though sales rose at a slower than anticipated pace. The Hunt Valley-based spice and flavorings company said sales rose 1 percent to $1.23 billion in the three months that ended Feb. 28, compared with the first quarter of 2018....
Shoppers Food & Pharmacy stores in the Baltimore region could close in the near future as the grocery chain’s parent company has expressed a desire to sell the chain this year. Executives with United Natural Foods Inc., which purchased the chain’s previous parent company Supervalu for $2.9 billion...
A natural, plant-based skin care line plans to move its corporate, manufacturing and research and development operations to space near Baltimore-Washington International Airport from San Antonio, according to the company and St. Johns Properties, which leased the property. Shankara produces and...
American Airlines is extending cancellations of flights through April 24 due to the grounding of Boeing 737 Max aircraft, as federal regulators continue to investigate two deadly crashes involving the plane model. Southwest Airlines is also continuing to make cancellations. American has 24 Boeing...
The Elephant will remain open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays throughout April, its owners announced Tuesday. ”[We] are ecstatic to say that we just CAN NOT say goodbye,” they wrote in an email. The owners of The Elephant said last week that the storied Mount Vernon restaurant would close amid...
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...
All Time Low singer and Dulaney High School graduate Alex Gaskarth is entering Baltimore’s nightlife business with an investment in Full Tilt Brewing. The craft brewery, which has been brewing beer for six years, opened its own location for the first time this year on York Road in Govans, in part...
Baltimore’s favorite googly-eyed trash collector is half-a-decade old, and his friends are throwing a birthday bash for him. He’s also getting yet another craft beer named in his honor, which could make him even more googly-eyed than normal, but it’s all for a good cause. Mr. Trash Wheel’s Classy...
“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...
Last week’s CSX derailment didn’t interrupt MARC or Amtrak service in Baltimore, but it did bring a halt to the one place in the city where you can still ride a streetcar. Visitors to the Baltimore Streetcar Museum marvel at the trolley ride — a short trip along the Jones Falls in an antique streetcar....
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...