Since nearly all the Maryland fans at Saturday’s game against Ohio State at Xfinity Center didn’t make the trip to Iowa earlier in the week, the Terps tried their best to recreate the second-half angst coach Mark Turgeon felt at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Unlike Tuesday, when the Terps lost all of their...
Over nearly two years, special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has operated like a prosecutorial submarine, abruptly surfacing without warning to release indictments or announce guilty pleas and then plunging back down to continue the Russia investigation. He is ubiquitous and yet invisible — the...
A 25-year-old Baltimore member of the Bloods gang pleaded guilty Friday to a racketeering charge stemming from an assault on a man with the rival Crips organization. Ali Jackson, a member of the Southside Brims, a subset of the Bloods, pleaded guilty to committing a violent act in aid of racketeering,...
The No. 1 Patterson boys basketball team won the Baltimore City championship on Thursday and impressively looked like a champion in Saturday’s makeup game at rival Lake Clifton. The Clippers were assertive from the start, taking whatever the No. 7 Lakers gave them on offense while buckling down...
"There are none so blind as those who will not see." One might think that after denying the evidence of Adolf Hitler's rise and objectives that resulted in World War II, Europeans might be more attuned to modern threats. Last week on a visit to Munich (oh, the irony), Vice President Mike Pence ...
Baltimore is not the only American city faced with the challenge of reducing violent crime. But those of us who care deeply about this great city are confronted with an urgent need for action to address this problem head-on. This is an all hands on deck moment. There are a number of strong proposals...
Some people would like to keep lynchings in the past. It happened so long ago, they will say. Why dredge up animosity from a generation ago? One reader wrote in a recent letter to the editor: Resentment can be stirred among white individuals who hold no racist views yet are being made to feel that...
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Any teen caught violating The Avenue at White Marsh’s youth escort policy will now face a three-month ban from the premises, the shopping center’s management announced Tuesday. The new policy, which goes into effect Friday, is the latest development for two closely situated shopping complexes in...
Southwest Airlines flights were grounded for just under an hour Friday morning due to software issues, an airline spokesman said. The delays affected customers nationwide, including at BWI Marshall Airport. Southwest suspended operations for about 50 minutes as work was done on the airline’s software...
Under Armour CEO and founder Kevin Plank has sought business advice from MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle and flown the TV journalist on the private jet he leases to the Baltimore-based sports apparel company, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Citing current and former Under Armour executives,...
An ongoing dispute over regulating the alcohol industry in Maryland bubbled up Thursday, with the state’s comptroller and lawmakers offering dueling views of a bill that would change how liquor laws are enforced. Comptroller Peter Franchot said a proposal to move his inspectors and investigators...
A gesture as simple as writing a check can have heroic consequences. The $900 that the Baltimore heiress and art patron Saidie Adler May filled out represents a modest sum, even viewed from the perspective of 1940. It’s the equivalent of $16,150 in 2019 dollars, or roughly the amount needed to...
If you’ve ever been watching a movie and thought “I’d love to go there!” — well, maybe you actually can. There are quite a few famous movie locations that you can actually visit around the world. Some of them might even be in your town! From 'Ferris Bueller’s Day Off' to 'Blade Runner,' there are...
Just about every town has some restaurants that aren’t easy to get into. You call on Tuesday, hoping for a table for two at 7 on Friday night, and are greeted with stifled laughter and the helpful information that there'll be something available at 5:30 three weeks hence. Well, that's normal for...
Two women said Thursday that singer R. Kelly picked them out of a crowd at a Baltimore after-party in the mid-1990s when they were underage and had sex with one of the teens although she was under the influence of marijuana and alcohol and could not consent. The Baltimore Sun does not typically...
There comes a time for all young birds to leave the nest. That time has come for Hampden’s Little Bird. To make way for The Bluebird Cocktail Room’s planned expansion into the ground floor, the Little Bird Coffee Bar will close for good Sunday. Opened by the Bluebird team in August, Little Bird...
More than one-third of all North Americans take a multivitamin. But this trend could just be a force of habit — there’s some debate over whether these supplements are really necessary at all. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, from 1990 to 2006, the number of...
Given the fear of cancer and desperate attempts to avoid it, rumors have circulated about foods that “cause cancer.” The fact is no one food is going to cause cancer in a person — though certain foods eaten in excess over a long period of time can increase your risk. These 10 foods, though, do not cause...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, roughly 32 percent of Americans — one in three adults — has high blood pressure, also known as hypertension. That’s 70 million adults; another 70 million have prehypertension, or blood pressure that’s not quite high enough to be considered...
Recent public corruption convictions of eight Baltimore police officers on federal racketeering charges and the guilty plea for fraud of former city Del. Nathaniel Oaks may make Marylanders forget that it was public graft in the suburbs that led to the creation of the Maryland State Prosecutor’s...
Another former Baltimore school board member has landed a high-paying job with the school system. Tina Hike-Hubbard, who left the board in January 2018, was recently named the district’s chief of communications and community engagement. Starting in March, she will oversee community engagement,...
Almost nine months after Baltimore County Police officer Amy Caprio was struck and killed by a fleeing vehicle, attorneys continue to comb through a mountain of evidence collected in the case of four young men charged in her death. Included in the evidence are more than 50 CDs containing videos,...