Lawmakers in Annapolis on Friday grilled leaders at the University of Maryland Medical System as they considered sweeping legislation to reform the hospital network after allegations of self-dealing and no-bid contracting with board members. The House of Delegates Health and Government Operations...
Results, scores and recaps from the first round of the NCAA Tournament. West Region: No. 6 Buffalo 91, No. 11 Arizona State 74 Buffalo coach Nate Oats beat his former boss when the sixth-seeded Bulls topped Bobby Hurley and 11th-seeded Arizona State 91-74 in the West Region. Hurley was Buffalo's...
The Rev. Wallace W. Anderson Jr., a retired Congregational minister who had led churches in New England before moving to Baltimore, died March 11 from Parkinson’s disease at the Pickersgill Retirement Community in Towson. He was 89. Wallace Witmer Anderson Jr. was born in Manchester, N.H., the...
A student was taken to a hospital with chest pain after a school resource officer used pepper spray to break up a fight at Holabird Middle School, according to police. The Baltimore County Police Department responded to the Dundalk school at about 12:10 p.m. after a fight in the cafeteria. A school...
Orioles outfielder Trey Mancini finally hit his first home run of the Grapefruit League season Thursday, but nobody has seemed too worried about his exhibition power shortage. “It was not anything I was concerned about whatsoever,’’ Mancini said. “I mean, I have 20-something at-bats. You have to...
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This month, hundreds of thousands of students participated in a world-wide “Walkout for Climate Change,” an effort to bring about more action to combat the negative effects humans are having upon the planet. I honestly commend them for their efforts. That said, the world is facing a far greater...
The epidemic of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates that has already broken out, not to mention at least one Republican challenge to President Trump, assures a marathon slow dance to next year's national party conventions. By the time the Democratic National Committee holds its first presidential...
Robert "Beto" O'Rourke's biggest fans and supporters insist he is a forward-thinking, future-oriented visionary, but no contender for the Democratic nomination feels more familiar than the former three-term congressman from El Paso. That's because he has the highest combined score in both déjà...
When TV sets first went on sale in Baltimore more than 70 years ago, they were placed front and center in appliance store display windows, and it was not unusual to see crowds of people lined up outside staring at the fuzzy black and white images on screens about the size of a sheet of paper. My...
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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....
Several of Maryland’s largest hospitals engage in business transactions with members of their governing boards while avoiding — for the most part — the type of political dealings that ensnared the University of Maryland Medical System in management turmoil this week. The medical system has faced...
MedStar Health has agreed to pay $35 million to resolve allegations that the hospital system paid kickbacks to a cardiology group in Pikesville in exchange for referrals, Robert Hur, the U.S. attorney for Maryland, and other federal investigators announced Thursday. The settlement under the False...
A developer plans to build a 62-unit apartment building with ground level shops downtown now that city’s officials have approved sale of the Gay Street properties near Power Plant Live. LRP Guardian House LLC will pay $1.24 million to the city for the buildings at 17-23 South Gay Street and 10...
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...
On the last day of their 2017 holiday tour at the Boch Center in Boston, the Grammy award-winning a cappella group Pentatonix officially added a new member to their group. The crowd applauded and cheered as lead singer Scott Hoying introduced Marylander Matthew Sallee as the new bass singer. Sallee...
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...