When the first shot rang out inside Frederick Douglass High School last month, GoodGod Akinnibosun thought someone was dropping desks. Just moments before, he had been talking with a girl in a hallway near the cafeteria, getting ready to maybe ask for her number. Suddenly, students all around him...
Scores of Annapolis area residents mourned in solidarity in a vigil Tuesday night honoring 50 Muslim worshippers gunned down in New Zealand last week and urged vigilance against white supremacy groups. “White nationalism, or whatever you call it, has attacked not just Muslims. This time it was...
One year after a school shooting at Great Mills High School, the St. Mary’s County sheriff’s is reporting that threats of mass violence have been made at area schools. According to a news release sent Tuesday by the sheriff’s office, multiple threats have been circulating on social media and text...
As a host of young outfielders who could be significant parts of the Orioles' future took the spotlight during spring training, a holdover who struggled to hold down a major league spot the past two years has played himself to the cusp of being a major league regular. Joey Rickard, the one-time...
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....
Someone spray-painted a question on the sheet of plywood that covers the front door of one of the old, lovely and abandoned three-story rowhouses near Lafayette Square in West Baltimore: “Why no Starbucks here?” I suppose this was meant to be ironic in that dystopian way we’ve grown accustomed...
Dan Rodricks writes that the original prosecutor in the state's case against Mark Farley Grant has written a new letter to Gov. Martin O'Malley imploring him to commute the convicted killer's sentence. If he knew what he knows now, the lawyer said, he would never have prosecuted Mr. Grant.
Gov. Larry Hogan has more pressing matters — saving Pimlico Race Course, keeping the Preakness in Baltimore, working with the General Assembly to get Maryland up to full speed on funding public education — but since he’s put the idea of a third Chesapeake Bay bridge out there, allow me to make...
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Fearless has expanded its office in downtown Baltimore to create space for new employees as the software firm continues to grow. Housed in the Spark coworking space in Baltimore’s Power Plant Live complex, Fearless employs more than 65 people. The company said Tuesday its workforce could grow by...
Broadly.com, an Oakland, California-based communications platform for small businesses, has opened its first East Coast office in Baltimore and plans to hire 50 people. The tech start-up cited access to top-tier universities, technology leaders and access to the wider Washington, D.C., area as...
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...
Southwest Airlines and a union representing its mechanics could be on the verge of ending a bitter, long-running labor dispute that has triggered hundreds of flight cancellations and raised safety concerns. The two sides announced the tentative contract agreement late Saturday after six years of...
The popular Michael’s Cafe announced Tuesday that is has opened its long-awaited second restaurant in Middle River. The new establishment is serving customers at Greenleigh at Crossroads near Interstate 95 and Route 43, according to a news release. Chef Josh Vecchiolla will preside over the 9,900-square-foot...
As if it weren’t enough that he’s the most exuberant and beloved beer vendor at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Fancy Clancy is about to have a beer named after him that’ll be available just across the street, at Sliders Bar & Grille. “He’s such a cool dude, and everybody loves him so,” Art Major,...
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,...
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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...