When the request showed up in her email, Peggy Marchanti didn’t hesitate to accept. “I would be honored!” she wrote. Then she began to worry. It had been years since she spoke publicly about the death of her husband, Maj. Robert Marchanti II, and since she last faced a crowd. The Baltimore widow...
Minutes after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday that he was delaying the new Harriet Tubman $20 bill until 2028, a New York designer tweeted: "We'll see about that." Dano Wall, 33, has created a 3-D stamp that can be used to superimpose a portrait of Tubman over Andrew Jackson's...
Two men were killed in separate shootings and a body was found in a vacant house in Baltimore on Saturday, according to Baltimore Police. Officers heard gunshots at about 12:35 p.m. in the 1500 block of Ellamont St., in the city’s Rosemont neighborhood, and found a 35-year-old man wounded by gunfire,...
A 9-year-old boy on a bicycle was struck by a Jeep Wrangler around 4:30 p.m. Friday in Elkridge, Howard County police reported. The child was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital with injuries that might be life-threatening. Police believe the child rode out of a residential driveway in the travel lane...
The No. 3 Hereford girls track and field team waited a long time for this moment. With all of the program’s success in cross country and indoor track (17 state titles combined), the Bulls never won a state crown in outdoor track and field. Until Saturday. The Bulls fought off a furious late comeback...
As the most tumultuous meeting in Santa Anita’s 85-year history creeps toward its close June 23, the one constant the past few months has been change, be it how trainers do their job, how horses do their work or how many days a week racing is real. In the midst of an equine fatality crisis, Belinda...
In a recent column on reversing Baltimore’s population slide, I suggested that the city, starting with its mayor, devote time each year to pitching college students on staying after graduation and launching their careers here. Two weeks later, the Wall Street Journal named Baltimore one of the...
While some might take a wrecking ball to old buildings in Baltimore, Marty Azola has been saving them and figuring out new uses for them over the last half-century, and he thinks the two 1840s Woodberry houses that were knocked down this week could — and should — be rebuilt. Azola is the CEO and...
Aside from the obvious — better results from city schools, fewer shootings and less crime generally — there are two efforts that, when ramped up, could keep more Baltimore families from leaving town and possibly stabilize the city’s population in the near future: Converting more vacant rowhouses...
I look into his face and see everything James Williams tells me, everything his young lawyers describe, everything in the psychiatric evaluations and police reports. I see confirmation of a hard life that started with physical and mental cruelty, moved quickly into drinking and drugs, followed...
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Herbert I. Reamer, former owner and president of Reamer’s, a chain of Baltimore clothing stores that kept men and women well-dressed for decades, died May 10 from Parkinson’s disease at his Roland Park Place home. The former Cross Keys resident was 85. “He had a good eye for fashion and trends...
Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. has asked the state for an increase to gas and electric rates that would add $8.53 to the average residential customer’s bill. The utility filed the request to boost its delivery rates Friday afternoon with the Maryland Public Service Commission. Under the proposal,...
Legg Mason has cut its corporate workforce by 12 percent, laying off 120 people, including about 100 spread evenly between Baltimore, New York and Stamford, Conn. The Baltimore-based money management firm eliminated jobs in its legal, finance and human resources departments and in the distribution...
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced Friday that he’s vetoing a bill that would have dissolved the state’s Handgun Permit Review Board, while allowing another measure to become law that creates a first-in-the-nation statewide ban on foam food and drink containers. Hogan’s office announced the decisions...
Oh, rats. Baltimore’s health department temporarily shut down Insomnia Cookies in Federal Hill Friday, citing a rat infestation. The establishment is located on the 1000 block of S. Charles St. and is one of several locations in the area, including branches in Fells Point, Towson, Charles Village...
Filth elder indeed! With the publication of his ninth book, “Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Reputation of a Filth Elder,” Baltimore’s most reputable degenerate offers a sampling of all the things that make him such a civic treasure. It’s outrageous and, in ways that only the man who unleashed “Pink...
A tentative deal is close to settling lawsuits brought against the television and film company co-founded by Harvey Weinstein, who has been accused of sexual misconduct by scores of women. Adam Harris, a lawyer for studio co-founder Bob Weinstein, told a bankruptcy court judge Thursday that "an...
To assemble our ranking, we took an approach similar to the one that we have used when compiling our 101 Best Restaurants in America. We compiled a list of America’s best purveyors of pizza, burgers, hot dogs, tacos, fried chicken, breakfast and brunch spots and more, ending up with more than 500...
Pets make people happy. That’s the simple — but profound — concept behind Pets on Wheels, a nonprofit that connects pets (and their owners) with people who might need a cheerful face and perhaps a friendly lick or two. “It is a completely simple concept: you take your pets to visit with people...
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Memorial Day weekend marks the arrival of the Baltimore summer season. The markets are full of tiny sweet peas, strawberries and rhubarb. Families start organizing crab feasts. And on a warm night, snowball stands attract lines for a cup of ice flavored with chocolate and marshmallow or any other...
He loves dogs and computers, and he knows what makes both tick. So Bel Air resident Jared Marmen set out to make a “smart” collar for canines, high-tech neckwear that rewards pets for obedience instead of shocking them for bad behavior. The Chord Collar project is a passion for Marmen, 37, a Bel...
The Maryland Transit Administration unveiled a searchable online database Thursday that offers bus passengers and the rest of the public the ability to view and track on-time rates of each of the agency’s bus routes, a transparency step long sought by advocates critical of the agency’s reporting....
About 8 percent of Citiwatch cameras in Baltimore don’t work, according to the Baltimore Police Department. A recent count found 59 of the 744 closed-circuit cameras were not functioning, officials said, for reasons ranging from wireless signal interference and downed street poles to cameras simply...
After Republican Gov. Larry Hogan killed Baltimore’s proposed $2.9 billion Red Line light rail project in 2015, Democratic lawmakers in the General Assembly tried to fight back — passing legislation mandating that the Maryland Department of Transportation create a metric-based scoring system to...