Adenoviruses, the type of virus that led to a University of Maryland freshman’s death, are common pathogens that often bring about mild symptoms among those affected. But they can cause serious complications in some patients. Here’s what you need to know about the viruses. What are adenoviruses?...
Donald Davis recalls times during his 12 years as head coach of Calvert Hall when he had the luxury of meticulously game-planning for every aspect of his team’s annual season-ending showdown with archrival Loyola Blakefield. This year, with just three practices to prepare for Thursday’s 99th Turkey...
The Harford County Sheriff’s Office has selected 14 deputies who will serve as school resource officers in all middle and high schools in its jurisdiction, starting in December. The names of the school resource officers were released in an announcement posted on the Sheriff’s Office Facebook page...
Maryland interim coach Matt Canada is not going to pin last Saturday’s 52-51 overtime loss at home to No. 10 Ohio State on the two players involved in the final play, in particular redshirt sophomore quarterback Tyrrell Pigrome. While not discussing what went wrong on the failed 2-point conversion...
Much has been said online and in the media over the past few weeks regarding some proposed changes at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. As the chair of the Board of Directors of the BSO, I feel it is my place to provide some perspective that I hope will guide the ongoing discussions efficiently,...
Last month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported that, if we don’t act now, we’re on track to see global temperatures increase 1.5 degrees Celsius as early as 2030, leading to more severe storms and flooding and more extreme heat waves and droughts. The usual suspects behind America’s...
The New York Times revealed last week that Facebook executives withheld evidence of Russian activity on the Facebook platform far longer than previously disclosed. They also employed a political opposition research firm to discredit critics. There's a larger story here. America's Gilded Age of...
In her latest book, “Leadership in Turbulent Times,” historian Doris Kearns Goodwin focuses on four presidents: Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson. All were intelligent, with great oratory and writing gifts; focused; persistent; energetic and greatly skilled...
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The fatal shooting Monday at Mercy Hospital & Medical Center highlights a sobering reality about workplace violence: women who are killed at work are commonly targeted by intimate partners. Forty percent of women who died as a result of workplace violence in 2016 did so at the hands of domestic...
Baltimore Mayor Catherine E. Pugh has signed an executive order recognizing LGBTQ-owned businesses, a move that could bring a significant amount of work to the community. The move puts the lesbian-gay, bisexual, transgender and queer-owned businesses in the same league as women- and minority-owned...
Health officials in the U.S. and Canada told people Tuesday to stop eating romaine lettuce because of a new E. coli outbreak. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it is working with officials in Canada on the outbreak, which has sickened 32 people in 11 states and 18 people in the Canadian...
Buoyed by the midterm elections in which health care played a key role, lawmakers and advocates for the Affordable Care Act in Maryland say they will push a plan to require more people to get coverage. The proposal is a response to congressional Republicans’ move to strip enforcement of the federal...
The Night Before Thanksgiving (see also, Black Wednesday, Dranksgiving, etc.) — that sometimes-wonderful, sometimes-uncomfortable mashup of family, old high-school friends and enough alcohol to make both bearable — is upon us. Worried about who you’ll run into and how you’ll deal? Fear not. Here...
Snozberry sorbet ? Why not? The Charmery Ice Cream Factory in Medfield will be going all Willy Wonka when it hosts (and supplies the treats for) a “full sensory movie experience” next month with a pair of screenings of the 1971 film “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.” Set for 6:30 p.m. Dec....
Cross Street Market vendor Nick’s Inner Harbor Seafood has announced it will close in January amid a lease dispute with the market’s operator. The eatery plans to close to the public Jan. 7 and will vacate the premises by Jan. 11, said Kwang Lee, who has owned Nick’s since 2008. As of now, there...
Slowly, like a spirit aging in a barrel, rye whiskey is making a comeback — and two Baltimore companies are helping lead the way. Sagamore Spirit and Baltimore Spirits Co. have made it their mission to bring prominence back to Maryland’s once-beloved booze, which fell out of favor post-Prohibition...
Sloane Brown covers the social scene as a freelance contributor to The Baltimore Sun and runs baltimoresnap.com. If you are planning a fundraiser you'd like considered for coverage, contact sloane@sloanebrown.com.
Sloane Brown spotlights fashionable partygoers at galas and events around town. If you are planning a fundraiser you'd like considered for coverage, contact sloane@sloanebrown.com.
Joe Colgan never considered Liberty ships, those workhorses of the American war effort during World War II, as his friends. Until he met the SS John W. Brown. “The last Liberty ship I got off, I swore to God I would never get on another one,” the 93-year-old Navy Armed Guard veteran said from his...
In her time working for Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library system, Sadye Whitt has seen 10 mayoral inaugurations, five library administrations, thousands of book acquisitions and countless technological changes. That’s what happens when you’ve worked for the city longer than anyone else — 56...
Maryland’s judiciary fielded 114 requests to remove firearms from individuals in October, the first month the state’s new “red flag” gun safety law went into effect. Those requests results in guns being removed at least temporarily in a majority of cases and longer in 36 cases in which judges granted...
An anonymous group of women that included faculty and medical residents warned top University of Maryland, Baltimore officials in January that prominent surgeons had inappropriate sexual relationships with subordinates and created a “hostile work environment” in the medical school and its affiliated...
Black elementary school students who have black teachers are significantly more likely to enroll in college, according to a research paper co-authored by a Johns Hopkins University professor. A working paper published this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that black students...