Fueled by a rising awareness about the prevalence of sexual violence on campus and ways to report it, the University of Maryland’s Title IX office received a record-high number of complaints last school year — yet it opened a record-low number of investigations into those claims. During the last...
The Towson women’s basketball program’s rise from a 9-21 season in 2017-18 to a 20-12 record and the Colonial Athletic Association tournament crown this winter has spawned many queries, including the most common one: how? “I’ve had a lot of people ask me that question, and I’m not exactly sure,”...
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...
County Executive Calvin Ball prefiled legislation Thursday to get one step closer to breaking ground for Howard’s 13th high school in Jessup. Ball’s legislation moves to reach the final phase of acquiring the 77-acre site on Mission Road from Gould Property Co., the general partner of Chase Land...
Fervor about the NFL’s video-replay review process exploded enough during the postseason to carry over to the annual league meetings next week. When owners, team officials and league executives convene for four days beginning Sunday in Phoenix, their business will include 17 proposed rule changes,...
You go to McDonald’s, you might end up feeling like you have a hockey puck in your stomach. You go to Alinea, you might want to sell off that extra set of golf clubs. We know what we sign up for. Recruits who agree to play for Michigan State coach Tom Izzo understand the deal. He’ll get you to...
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...
The late, brilliant comedian Joan Rivers’ favorite catchphrase was “Grow up!” It was said in jest, but meant in earnest to wake her shocked audiences from their stupor long enough to realize that her comedic targets were doing horrible things all the time. It is in this same spirit that I urge...
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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 Maryland General Assembly gave its final approval Wednesday to legislation increasing the state’s minimum wage to $15 per hour. The measure will go next to Gov. Larry Hogan, who opposes such a significant increase. But both the House of Delegates and the Senate approved the bill with more than...
Roseanne Barr apparently does not like Sara Gilbert anymore. Not one bit. Not since Gilbert, her former costar, 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...
For one night, Hollywood felt a little like Pawnee. The cast of NBC's hit comedy "Parks and Recreation" reunited at PaleyFest on Thursday in honor of the show's 10th anniversary. The whole Pawnee gang showed up: Amy Poehler, Chris Pratt, Aubrey Plaza, Nick Offerman, Aziz Ansari, Rob Lowe, Adam...
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...