Mayor Catherine Pugh has resigned from the University of Maryland Medical System’s board of directors amid scrutiny over contracting practices involving board members. Pugh’s resignation came after the mayor has encountered heavy criticism for failing to fully disclose the $500,000 business relationship...
Baltimore County Police have identified two people found dead Sunday morning as couple Ami Lynn Garrison, 40, and Daniel Allen Doran, 41. Police said both were found with apparent gunshot wounds at the house where they lived in the 3000 block of Willow Ave. in Edgemere. Police would not elaborate...
Two congregations gathered in one church on Sunday, March 3. They gave thanks, broke bread, and then packed iup. So began the procession. Congregants picked up hymnals, candles, communion supplies and other items from the sanctuary and walked out the doors of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Apostles,...
Orioles outfielder Austin Hays, who hit his fifth home run of the spring Saturday to solidify a 4-3 win over the Toronto Blue Jays and has swung one of the hottest bats in camp, was a surprising inclusion on the third wave of roster cuts the Orioles made Sunday. Hays, 23, had more hits (13) than...
I come to this column having just finished a conference call with two young attorneys who represent a troubled man who spent 12 years in a Maryland prison for crimes he did not commit. At 67, the man has little in life but the clothes on his back; the attorneys say he’s one step away from homelessness....
During his two terms as Maryland’s 57th governor, from 1979 to 1987, Harry Hughes enhanced civility, integrity and prudence in state government leadership. Elevating Maryland’s political culture and public discourse at a difficult period in our state’s history, Governor Hughes reinforced the value...
As contenders line up for the 2020 presidential nomination, the Democratic Party is in a quandary over the rise of ultra-progressivism in its ranks. The party of FDR, Truman, Kennedy, LBJ, Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama has generally flown under banner of liberalism. But it has also included many...
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Under Armour has hired a former vice president of the climbing, skiing and mountain gear maker Black Diamond Equipment to serve as its new chief design officer. Kasey Jarvis will join the company in early April, according to Under Armour. Jarvis will replace Dave Dombrow, who recently left Under...
Baltimore Mayor Catherine E. Pugh did not fully disclose the $500,000 business relationship she started in 2011 with the University of Maryland Medical System during the time she was a state senator, a period during which she sat on the hospital network’s board of directors and oversaw issues involving...
The details of a bill to gradually increase Maryland’s minimum wage from $10.10 per hour to $15 per hour will be worked out by a conference committee of delegates and senators. The House of Delegates on Friday refused to agree to the state Senate’s version of the “Fight for $15” bill, making the...
Gov. Larry Hogan and Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller called Friday on the University of Maryland Medical System to put an end to any conflicts of interest in business deals for members of the system’s board of directors. From the Senate dais, Miller — the powerful, long-serving Calvert County...
Novelist and former Baltimore Sun reporter Laura Lippman has dedicated her latest book to the five victims of last year’s Capital Gazette newsroom attack. “The Lady In The Lake,” which Lippman describes as a “weird love letter to the Baltimore newspapers of the ’60s,” is dedicated to Rob Hiaasen,...
March is the month of marathons. For sports fans, it’s all about college basketball. For musicians, it’s about bingeing on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. There is some dispute over the actual date of Bach’s birthday. Some scholars hold fast to March 21, 1685 while others argue for March 31,...
After a series of meetings with Walt Disney Pictures honcho Alan Horn, fired director James Gunn will return to the Marvel fold. Gunn has been re-hired to direct the third installment in the "Guardians of the Galaxy" franchise, the Chris Pratt and Zoe Saldana series about misfits who protect outer-space,...
"Saturday Night Live" aired last October a sketch about a pumpkin patch where the employees, much to the consternation of the proprietor, engage in sexual intercourse with the product. "The Pumpkin Patch" was lewd, funny, and seasonally appropriate. But according to Nick Ruggia and Ryan Hoffman...
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As turnarounds go, it was a lulu. Fifty years have passed since the Baltimore Bullets won their first National Basketball Association division title — after finishing last the year before. On March 21, 1969, having clinched first place with a win over the Bulls in Chicago, the players made merry....
Recently, my daughter had a school performance and a cookies-and-juice celebration in her classroom. In between the two events, I wandered over to the school’s two massive lost-and-found bins to see if I could locate a fleece ear warmer she’d lost two weeks after I bought it. I didn’t find the...
Time springs forward on Sunday, March 10, for daylight saving time. This tradition was established in the U.S. in 1918, but is it really all it's cracked up to be? Wacky time zones, car accidents and hurting business are just a few of the reasons it might be time to ditch this dated convention.
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...
While many governments across Maryland charge 25 or 50 cents a page for copies of public documents, police departments' fees are several times as much. Police commonly require $5 or $10 for copies of accident or incident reports, even for a single page. Fees run higher in Baltimore County, which...
Baltimore’s Human Trafficking Collaborative is hosting an event next month aimed at helping people who are typical targets for being forced into labor and sexual exploitation. The year-old organization has one major hurdle: The people who are most vulnerable often don’t know it until after they...