A winter storm watch is in effect across Central Maryland, warning of chances for 5 inches or more of wet, heavy snow and as much as a quarter of an inch of ice in some areas Wednesday. “It’s a possibility,” said Howard Silverman, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said Monday night....
Orioles pitching prospect Hunter Harvey and 31-year-old comeback pitcher Nathan Karns might be worlds apart in the baseball time-space continuum, but both took a big first step during the team’s first full-squad spring workout Monday. Harvey pitched to hitters for the first time since last June...
Lois Reed Leuba, a retired Baltimore County schools guidance counselor who collected and sold antique glassware, died of complications of dementia Jan. 29 at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. The former Lutherville resident was 83. Born Lois Eileen Reed in Wilkinsburg, Pa., she was the daughter...
After a Sunday doubleheader last July in Harrisburg with the Double-A Bowie Baysox, Branden Kline used the team's day off for a night away from the club with his wife, Sarah, and young daughter, Adalyn, before another bus off to another city. He'd pitched well that day, but took the loss in extra...
On Jan. 22, 2019, the Supreme Court decided by a 5-4 margin to allow the Trump administration’s ban on most transgender individuals serving in the military to go into effect. The justices did not take a stance on the legality of the ban, however, which allows cases that are challenging the policy...
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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...
Southwest Airlines declared an “operational emergency” Friday because of an unusually high number of aircraft taken out of service for maintenance, and ordered all scheduled mechanics to show up for work or risk being fired. Workers “alleging illness” will be required to provide a doctor’s note...
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...
Chicago police late Friday released two brothers they had been questioning about a reported attack on “Empire” star Jussie Smollett, saying they no longer were considered suspects. “Due to new evidence as a result of today’s interrogations, the individuals questioned by police in the Empire case...
Baked, boiled, fried, mashed, in any way, shape or form, potatoes are delicious. These starchy tubers, native to the Andes, can be divided into two categories — starchy or waxy — each of which lends itself particularly well to particular culinary uses. Want light and fluffy mashed potatoes, a particularly...
Baltimore pastry chef Duff Goldman, who rose to fame with his cake decorating show “Ace of Cakes,” is partaking in a baking battle against “Cake Boss” Buddy Valastro on the Food Network in March. The challenge will air on the Food Network series “Buddy vs. Duff,” a six-week reality baking competition...
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...
Readers: Think you know your Baltimore? Try answering our weekly trivia question. Some weeks will be ridiculously easy, some weeks a bit more challenging. Put your best guess in the “answer” field and hit “submit.” Or comment on Instagram: @retrobaltimore. If you’d like to be recognized for a correct...
Now here is a Valentine’s Day gift that is as romantic as it is practical. In the 1980s, Baltimore launched a Valentine’s Day “adopt-a-pothole” campaign in which citizens could pay to have a pothole filled in their sweetheart’s name. A pink or red heart was stamped in the asphalt by the repair,...
With Valentine’s Day here and Spring Training hard upon us, who better to revisit than former Orioles outfielder Fred Valentine? A native of Clarksdale, Miss., and a star shortstop (and quarterback) at Memphis’ Booker T. Washington High School (class of ’53), Valentine was signed by the Orioles...
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...