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...
A jury sided with Marilyn Mosby on Friday and found that the Baltimore state’s attorney did not illegally fire a city prosecutor over politics four years ago. The former prosecutor, Keri Borzilleri, had sued Mosby, claiming she was fired as retribution for supporting the political campaign of a...
A car crashed into a Baltimore post office Saturday afternoon, damaging the building, according to police. Around 4 p.m., a 2004 Dodge crashed into the post office in the 6200 block of Eastern Avenue near Hopkins Bayview. The occupants of the car ran from the scene. The car had been reported stolen...
George P. Kell, a retired advertising agency copy director who earlier held posts with Project HOPE and a Washington, D.C., hospital, died March 16 from complications of Alzheimer’s disease at St. Francis Center, a Darby, Pa., nursing home. The former Federal Hill resident was 80. George Philip...
Results, scores and recaps from the second round of the NCAA Tournament. South Region: No. 3 Purdue 87, No. 6 Villanova 61 Carsen Edwards had a career night, scoring 42 points as Purdue knocked reigning national champion Villanova out in Hartford, Conn. Matt Haarms added 18 points and nine rebounds...
Block out the noise and just play. That’s what the Florida State Seminoles had to do during their ACC Tournament matchups against the top-seeded Virginia team and a potent Duke squad that features one of the most heralded players in the country. It prepared them well for the Big Dance. No. 4 seed...
To truly reform Baltimore’s justice system and protect black communities from systematic persecution and criminalization, Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby must refuse to prosecute all non-violent, low-level offenses that unnecessarily clog the courts — not just the marijuana possession...
President Trump made a rare appearance at a church last Sunday. It's a safe bet the sermon was not based on Proverbs 15:1 -- "A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger." If it was, it didn't appear to have much effect. Before and after church, the president engaged in a ...
On a crummy day in December, the contractor Marty Azola, who made a career of renovating old buildings, stepped out of the amazing Ivy Hotel, his crowning achievement at Biddle and Calvert streets, and into a freezing rain. Azola looked around and remarked that, having visited many cities, he considered...
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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, Tex., according to the company and St. Johns Properties, which leased the property. Shankara produces...
A hotel management company operator has been charged with submitting fraudulent loan applications to a Maryland bank to buy millions of dollars in commercial and residential properties. A court filing Thursday charged Mehul Ramesh Khatiwala of New Jersey with bank fraud and conspiracy to commit...
Maryland lost 5,800 jobs in February, according to jobs data released Friday by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, though the state’s unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.7 percent. The rate has remained steady since December but was down from 4.2 in February last year....
Maryland is among seven states where CVS stores will soon begin selling topical products infused with the hemp derivative CBD. The pharmacy chain will soon begin offering creams, lotions, sprays, roll-on products and salves containing CBD, a wellness ingredient used to treat ailments ranging from...
The Baltimore Eagle, the former gay leather bar in Old Goucher, will reopen April 19 as a “safe space” where members of the LGBTQ community will be able to “feel free,” according to its new owners. The news ends months of uncertainty and cryptic messages as to the fate of the popular night club...
Roseanne Barr apparently does not like Sara Gilbert anymore. Not one bit. Not since Gilbert, her former co-star, tweeted that the “Roseanne” star’s Ambien-fueled comments about Valerie Jarrett were “abhorrent and do not reflect the beliefs of our cast and crew or anyone associated with our show.”...
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...
ABC has renewed its highest-rated new show, "The Conners," for a second season, Variety has learned. The show's stars, including John Goodman, Sara Gilbert, Lecy Goranson, Ames McNamara and Laurie Metcalf, are all set to return to Lanford, after several of them signed a new deal with the network...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...