It is becoming an all-too-familiar story. The Orioles finally put together a solid offensive performance and take what might be a commanding lead with any other bullpen. Instead, it just sets them up for another frustrating loss, and one made more discouraging by the growing chorus on "Let’s Go...
A 43-year-old Baltimore County man was sentenced to 50 years in prison for the fatal 2017 Christmas night stabbing in Columbia, the Howard County State’s Attorney’s Office said Monday evening. Damien Gary Clark was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, attempted second-degree murder and two counts...
Only 40 out of the 188 legislators in the Maryland General Assembly passed at least 50% of bills they introduced, and the average success rate for passing bills was 30.6%. Ten lawmakers passed every bill for which they were the primary sponsor. While some legislators were able to pass multiple...
Thanks to the hiring of Mike Elias atop the Orioles' baseball totem pole and the continued focus on the farm system and player development, there's something missing from the discourse around the Orioles that's a welcome change from a season ago. Partially because the bubble already burst last...
The TV audience in Baltimore for Saturday’s Preakness race was down 10.65 percent compared with that in 2018. Those are household figures from Nielsen that measure the size of the audience during the actual running of the race. They are provided by WBAL-TV, the NBC affiliate that aired NBC’s coverage...
A selection of the 44 best photos from the 144th Preakness by The Baltimore Sun photo staff. Our other favorite photo galleries: Scenes from InfieldFest Bodexpress throws jockey out of the starting gate War of Will wins the 144th Preakness StakesMore
I look into his face and see everything James Williams tells me, everything his young lawyers describe, everything in the psychiatric evaluations and police reports. I see confirmation of a hard life that started with physical and mental cruelty, moved quickly into drinking and drugs, followed...
Sometimes — check that, many times — I think we do not know what we want, and I mean diehard Baltimoreans, the ones who actually live in the city and plan to stay here until they die or polar bears show up on icebergs in the Inner Harbor, whichever comes first. Consider comments received here about...
One of the most important dates on the Baltimore calendar for 2019 will be July 9. That is when proposals for what used to be known as The Superblock are due at the city’s economic development agency. The plans presented on or before noon of that Tuesday could represent a significant step toward...
Considering the thousands upon thousands of criminal cases that have been investigated by police throughout Maryland over the last 30 years, and considering the number of criminal defendants who have been prosecuted by assistant state’s attorneys, convicted by juries and sentenced by judges during...
Under Armour has joined Nike, Adidas and dozens of brands and retailers in urging President Donald Trump to halt plans to boost tariffs on footwear imported from China. “The proposed additional tariff of 25 percent on footwear would be catastrophic for our consumers, our companies and the American...
Siblings Eve Redman and Roger Green grew up just across the Potomac River from the Luke Mill, where their father worked for 42 years. They followed in his footsteps, laboring in the paper factory nearly as long. But they won’t surpass his tenure. The 131-year-old mill is ceasing production at the...
An occasion both festive and melancholy for many who wept and partied
Shoppers Food and Pharmacy will shut down its Hyattsville store as its parent company is discussing the sale of its grocery chain. Spokesman Michael Wilken wrote in an email that the Chillum Road location will begin liquidating its inventory on May 28 “with an expected completion date of Monday,...
Sorry, Tiki Barge fans. The floating Inner Harbor club that once had a swimming pool will not be opening this summer, owner Dan Naor said. Naor declined to give a reason for the closure, or to say whether the bar would reopen next summer. Tiki Barge Bmore LLC is listed as not in good standing in...
Well, that was… satisfying intellectually, I guess, sort of. But Sunday’s big series finale of “Game of Thrones,” which saw -- spoiler alert -- all manners of justice meted out, at the tip of a dagger and in an exile, didn’t exactly stick the landing. Yes, Jon Snow performing the necessary assassination...
Fells Point’s Broadway Market reopened this month, which means that, for the first time in nearly a decade, Baltimoreans can wander the north market shed and buy lunch. A $3 million renovation has brought the circa 1864 building, which has been vacant since around 2011, into the modern era. The...
Five years ago, shortly after giving birth to twin girls, Lauren Kucharski knew that Arya was the right choice for her spirited daughter. “We knew we wanted the name before she was born but didn’t know which twin to give it to until they were born. She came out fighting,” said Kucharski, a 38-year-old...
Sure, there are scientific studies that show the health benefits of having pets at work. (Who doesn’t feel the stress seep out of them at petting and playing with a dog or cat?) For these Harford County business owners, who talk about the camaraderie and joy that their animals bring to their offices,...
Sunday Silence. Easy Goer. Benign names, both. But 30 years ago, in the Preakness, those two colts staged a race for the ages, thundering down the stretch, head to head, in a white-knuckled finish that still stirs the blood of race fans. Stride for stride they ran — Sunday Silence, the Kentucky...
A couple Mondays ago, I was unable to get off work in enough time to get the kids from the afterschool sitter, who had a soccer game in Ellicott City. Her mother, a gem of a woman and apparently a saint, offered to take my three with her to the game — and bring them home afterward. The respite...
With the 144th running of Maryland’s premier sporting event just days away, we asked some of the folks who work so hard behind the scenes to step forward for once, to let everyone know not only what they do, but the pride they take in doing it. Being associated with the Preakness would be a point...
After Republican Gov. Larry Hogan killed Baltimore’s proposed $2.9 billion Red Line light rail project in 2015, Democratic lawmakers in the General Assembly tried to fight back — passing legislation mandating that the Maryland Department of Transportation create a metric-based scoring system to...
A trust managing Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s development business continued to make new real estate transactions last year, according to new financial disclosure forms filed by the governor. Hogan now has an ownership interest in 43 limited liability companies — including four new companies formed...
What happens in the boardroom no longer necessarily stays in the boardroom. That, at least, is one takeaway from the recent scandal involving the University of Maryland Medical System’s board, nine of whose members were revealed by The Sun to have lucrative deals to sell goods and services to the...