Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh is blasting the owners of the Pimlico Race Course after the company urged construction of a “super track” for horse racing in Laurel, not Baltimore. In a letter to Gov. Larry Hogan and General Assembly leaders, Pugh urged them to reject The Stronach Group’s efforts...
Leaders of Maryland's General Assembly created a work group Tuesday to study legalizing recreational use of marijuana — a signal the legislature won’t pass legislation this year on the issue. The bipartisan group will make recommendations at the end of December that could be used to develop bills...
A transition team advising Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. wants the county to again review the way it handles sexual assault investigations and prosecutions. The team says officials should examine issues including law enforcement training, the testing of rape kits and ensuring...
The Orioles on Tuesday claimed left-hander Josh Osich off waivers from the San Francisco Giants, adding another southpaw reliever to their growing stable on the major league roster. Osich, a former sixth-round pick of the Giants out of Oregon State, has pitched parts of the last four seasons in...
It is unfathomable and inexcusable that police departments in central Maryland got 223 sexual assault victims to sign away their rights to an investigation during the last two years. Presenting someone who has just suffered profound trauma with a form releasing the authorities of any responsibility...
Assisted or unassisted suicide is still suicide, and its purpose is to end someone’s life. It is basically playing God to determine when someone dies. Doctors who engage in this practice are assisting in a form of murder (“Hopkins doctor: Physician-assisted suicide is unethical and dangerous,”...
The Baltimore Sun ran a thorough piece (“Support grows for raising Maryland's minimum wage, but not all agree. Debate could focus on how much — and where, Dec. 25) detailing the various perspectives on proposed legislation to raise Maryland’s minimum wage to $15 per hour. One consideration not...
I read with considerable anger and outrage Herb Cromwell's commentary, “I should have known about blackface” (Feb. 17). Blackface is as oppressive and offensive as any other form of anti-black behavior. Whites should already know this. Now at the age of 76, I have never been surprised by the ignorance...
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Federal officials have told Southwest Airlines to fix the way it calculates the weight of luggage loaded on flights after finding frequent mistakes. Southwest said Tuesday that it made improvements in its methods for calculating weight and the balance of loads during 2018. The airline says it voluntarily...
More than half of Marylanders support legalizing the recreational use of marijuana, according to a new poll. A poll of 808 Maryland residents by Goucher College found 57 percent support marijuana legalization. Thirty-seven percent of those polled were opposed. Those who identify as conservative...
The Baltimore-based Law Offices of Peter Angelos have joined a host of firms across the country beginning to file lawsuits against the St. Paul, Minn-based 3M Co. over earplugs it provided the military that were alleged to be defective by the U.S. Justice Department. The first local case against...
Human and machine have 10 seconds per plant. They must find the ripe strawberries in the leaves, gently twist them off the stems and tuck them into a plastic clamshell. Repeat, repeat, repeat, before the fruit spoils. One February afternoon, they work about an acre apart on a farm the size of 454...
Ethel Ennis, Baltimore’s “First Lady of Jazz” who during her seven-decade career performed with such musical luminaries as Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, the Miles Davis-John Coltrane Sextet and Wynton Marsalis, and thrilled audiences at the Newport and Monterey jazz...
Chicago police are investigating whether "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett paid two brothers to stage an attack on the actor in the Streeterville neighborhood late last month, according to a law enforcement source. Detectives are following up on information provided by the brothers while they were...
Flip open the covers on the half a dozen books listed here, and pretty soon you’ll start hearing voices. But that’s O.K. when those voices are as provocative, thoughtful, funny and fascinating as are those in the six nonfiction titles that we’ve assembled in honor of Black History Month. One voice...
Atlas Restaurant Group has announced plans to open a Latin American-style concept restaurant in Baltimore’s Four Seasons Hotel. The hotel’s 8,000-square-foot space on its ground floor, formerly occupied by Wit & Wisdom, will soon house Maximón, an eatery that showcases South American cuisines with...
Karl Lagerfeld, the iconic couturier whose designs at Chanel and Fendi had an unprecedented impact on the entire fashion industry, died Tuesday in Paris, prompting an outpouring of love and admiration for the man whose career spanned six decades. Although he spent virtually his entire career at...
Ollie’s Bargain Outlet, the Pennsylvania-based discount retail chain, will hold a five-day sale of wedding and formal dresses in five Maryland stores starting Thursday. The deep discounts include $2,500 wedding dresses marked down to $199.99, dresses originally more than $2,500 sold at $299.99,...
Whether as the plaintiff in a recently filed lawsuit or a central figure in a new documentary, therapist Christopher Doyle portrays himself as both healer and healed. “The same-sex desires, just like it was in my case, just went away. And today, I’m married, I have two kids and I’m so happy,” Doyle...
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Veteran public corruption investigator James Cabezas, who retired two years ago from Maryland’s Office of the State Prosecutor, has written a memoir of a four-decade career taking down corrupt government employees and politicians. This is The Baltimore Sun’s second peek into the plethora of public...
DJ Durkin was dismissed by the University of Maryland as its football coach Oct. 31, two months before the end of the year. But that did not stop Durkin from ranking first on The Baltimore Sun’s list of the state’s highest-paid employees in 2018. At $4.7 million, Durkin made more money last year...
Who judges the judges in Maryland? Gov. Larry Hogan and many state lawmakers think state judges don’t face enough scrutiny. So they have proposed legislation to provide more oversight — by allowing cameras in courtrooms, tracking judges’ sentencing of violent criminals and including the names of...