Two adults were being evaluated for mild “symptoms of illness” after a suspicious package was opened at Beth El School in Pikesville on Monday afternoon, according to the Baltimore County Fire Department. Emergency medical and HAZMAT crews were called to the school and were scanning the building...
For the second time this year alone, some of the 300,000 Marylanders who work for the federal government could be furloughed or have to work without pay if Congress and the president cannot agree on funding for agencies from the IRS to Customs and Border Protection to the National Park Service....
A new charter school in Baltimore County is one step closer to becoming a reality. The founders of Watershed Public Charter School say they have found a building for their school in Woodlawn. “Our new building has plenty of green space and lots of potential!” a spokesman wrote on Facebook. The...
The Ravens turned to a reliable formula to hold on to the AFC’s sixth playoff spot Sunday. Quarterback Lamar Jackson and running back Gus Edwards rushed for a combined 199 rushing yards, and the team’s second-ranked defense held the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ top-ranked offense to a season-low 241 yards...
Many expect that a Texas judge’s ruling Friday that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional will be overturned on appeal. The reason for that is that it’s flat-out nuts. It posits that because the Supreme Court previously upheld the law’s individual mandate under Congress’ taxation powers,...
The news these past few weeks has been hard to miss. The day after Thanksgiving, the National Climate Assessment was released showing that, if we don’t act boldly and quickly to address climate change, our future will consist of mass deaths due to heat, global food shortages and economic disaster....
Last month, Baltimore voters overwhelmingly approved my charter amendment to ban privatizing our water and sewer systems and to declare them as permanently public assets of the city. In passing Question E on the ballot, we became the first major city in the country to prevent profiteering corporations...
President Donald Trump, who has declared the American press "the enemy of the people," invited some of them into the Oval Office last week to witness his meeting with Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Democratic congressional leaders. He soon had reason to regret the invitation. The...
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Silicon Valley is becoming Silicon Nation. Google announced Monday it will spend more than $1 billion to build a new office complex in New York City that will allow the internet search giant to double the number of people it employs there. It is the tech industry's latest major expansion beyond...
Colin Kroll, a tech executive who co-founded the HQ Trivia app, has died. He was 34. The New York Police Department says officers went to Kroll's Manhattan apartment early Sunday after getting a call asking for a wellness check on him. They found him unconscious and unresponsive on his bed. He...
An analyst who has criticized Under Armour’s turnaround plan said he was shut out of the brand’s annual investors meeting Wednesday at its Baltimore offices. Sam Poser, an analyst with Susquehanna Financial Group, said he watched a webcast of the meeting from his New York office. Under Armour hosted...
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...
The owner of Greg’s Bagels in Belvedere Square says he plans to reopen, and dismissed the recent shutting down by the city’s health department as “a momentary closing to get some things squared away.” Thomas Hearn, who purchased the much-loved bagel shop from founder Greg Novik in December 2016,...
“A Wonder in My Soul” is a play told through six voices. Audience members don’t watch this show at Center Stage as much as listen to it — and not just because the characters sometimes break into song. In Marcus Gardley’s play, it’s 2008. Barack Obama is about to be elected the U.S.’s first black...
Kix-Mas The big-hair glam rockers from Western Maryland make their seasonal sojourn to Baltimore where, for an evening at least, it’ll be just like you were rockin’ out back in the ’80s. If you have yet to hear “Midnite Dynamite” or “Cold Shower” performed live, stop wasting time. 9 p.m. Dec. 22...
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...
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...
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...
Two federal law enforcement agencies in Maryland are teaming up to increase awareness about the deadly consequences of fentanyl and other opioids that have been fueling mounting overdose deaths in the state and across the nation. The Drug Enforcement Administration and the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s...
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...