Antonio Wright, the 27-year-old man acquitted this summer of a firebombing that killed two teens and injured six others in 2017, was fatally shot in East Baltimore on Friday morning, his attorney confirmed. “Another casualty in the war on each other, I guess,” said Warren Brown, the attorney. Baltimore...
When Maryland’s new public school rating system was released earlier this month, Anne Arundel County stood out as a high-performing system with mediocre ratings. It had many more elementary schools that earned only two or three stars on the one-to-five scale than surrounding jurisdictions including...
Rain is forecast to return to Maryland late Friday, and meteorologists warned it could bring with it flooding risks on Saturday. The National Weather Service issued a flood watch across Central Maryland for Saturday afternoon and evening. A large area of low pressure is forecast to bring moderate...
Baltimore Sun writers and editors pick every game of the NFL season. Click on the photos above to see predicted winners in Week 15. Jen Badie: 134-70-2 overall, 10-6 last week Edward Lee: 128-76-2 overall, 11-5 last week Mike Preston: 125-79-2 overall, 9-7 last week Peter Schmuck: 125-79-2 overall,...
A proposal before the Baltimore County Council that will provide for the expedited construction of infrastructure at Tradepoint Atlantic, the former site of the old Bethlehem Steel plant in Sparrows Point, is a prime example of private industry collaborating with government to devise a sensible...
Let's imagine that President Donald Trump gave a White House news conference in the nude. "As you can see," he might say, paraphrasing the semi-apocryphal quip Winston Churchill made when FDR accidentally encountered him emerging from a hot bath in the White House, disrobed, "I have nothing to...
Civil liberties activists long warned that the federal government must adopt “net neutrality” requirements that prevent broadband companies from charging websites for prioritized access to their lines or risk the loss of freedom and openness online. Yet, the Federal Communications Commission repealed...
The Republican Party now approaches its lowest ebb since the Watergate fiasco of the early 1970s, having been devastated in the midterm congressional elections by the Democrats, who will take over the U.S. House of Representatives on January 3. Subpoenas will begin flying at the Trump White House...
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The Howard Street Tunnel expansion appears to be back on, after the railroad CSX Transportation reversed a decision to pull out of the project and committed $91 million toward it, Maryland officials said Thursday. “We are pleased that CSX has reversed its position on the Howard Street Tunnel project...
Tribune Publishing has terminated negotiations to sell the Chicago-based newspaper company to McClatchy, a source familiar with the matter said Thursday. The decision, reached by the Tribune Publishing board Thursday, followed several months of negotiations with the California-based McClatchy Co....
The two main runways at Baltimore- Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport are open again after being shut down for more than an hour while staff made emergency repairs Thursday afternoon. The runways were closed from about 2:30 p.m. until 4:15 p.m., during which all incoming and outgoing...
In her first public act as incoming president of the Greater Baltimore Urban League, Tiffany W. Majors announced her organization’s support Thursday for a proposed high-speed train linking Baltimore and Washington. The magnetic levitation, or maglev, train, based on Japanese technology and boosted...
In a recent article, music and entertainment magazine Rolling Stone did the difficult job of narrowing down hundreds of live music venues and clubs in the country to the 10 best, and a Baltimore music venue made the cut. Alongside other noteworthy music venues like Austin’s Stubbs, Nashville, Nashville’s...
Robin Wright’s final stint on “House of Cards” is getting some love from her fellow actors. Wright’s performance as U.S. President Claire Underwood, in a final season that saw the veteran actor pushed to the front of the show after Kevin Spacey was fired following allegations of sexual abuse, has...
Like oppressed minorities throughout the centuries, gay Victorians used a coded language to communicate privately with one another, a code designed to be undetectable by members of mainstream society. In the hands of the sophisticated and witty Irish playwright Oscar Wilde, that secret cipher became...
When Chris Conrad moved back to Maryland from the West Coast two years ago, he asked his brother where people in Harford County go to eat seafood. “They come to our place,” said Anthony Conrad, who founded Conrad’s Seafood Restaurant in Perry Hall with his wife, Andrea. What if they don’t want...
Local dirt bike rider Pacino “Chino” Braxton, known for his daring dirt bike tricks, is donating his custom bike for a good cause. Braxton, who is an influencer for Under Armour and has landed a role in the awaited dirt bike movie produced by Will Smith and filmed here in Baltimore, is auctioning...
Trumpeter and band leader Louis Armstrong announced his arrival in Baltimore by giving away 300 bags of coal in a poor black neighborhood. He offered the coal to those who appeared at the Royal Theatre’s doors on the morning of Dec. 11, 1931. Armstrong would play concerts at the theater starting...
Sidharth Sharma had no idea when he took his first drink of kombucha at a friend’s house as a high school student 14 years ago that he would one day make his living selling the probiotic drink. The 28-year-old Elkridge resident is one of three owners of Wild Kombucha, a Maryland-based company that...
Public art can define a locale and ratchet up its appeal in a way nothing else can, say organizers of a fledgling nonprofit. That’s why Fund for Art in Ellicott City, which was founded in November 2017, is sponsoring a mural competition for professional and amateur artists on four buildings around...
Although few details are available about Gov. Larry Hogan’s proposal to trade park land in Western Maryland for federal property in Prince George’s County to make way for a new Washington Redskins stadium, the concept of a land exchange is not a new one. If Hogan’s deal comes to fruition, Maryland...
After spiking over the past few years, homicide rates in cities across the U.S. appear to be on track to fall this year, according to a recent New York Times report. The Times’ Thursday story cited improvements this year in Baltimore and 65 other cities with populations over 250,000. The figures...
A former Baltimore police officer has admitted to the FBI that he stole money, lied in police reports and improperly used electronic surveillance devices, federal prosecutors in California said — widening the scope of police misconduct unearthed by the Gun Trace Task Force scandal. Former Det....