Tens of thousands of Mayor Catherine Pugh’s “Healthy Holly” children’s books have not been accounted for by the institution that paid for them or the mayor, even as public pressure builds amid accusations of “self-dealing” at the University of Maryland Medical System. From 2011 through 2018, the...
As Bruno Fernando and Jalen Smith (Mount Saint Joseph) walked off the court together Saturday afternoon at the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena, Fernando, a sophomore center from Angola, consoled the freshman forward from Baltimore. A 69-67 loss to LSU in the NCAA tournament’s Round of 32 was likely...
A car crashed into a Baltimore post office Saturday afternoon, damaging the building, according to police. Around 4 p.m., a 2004 Dodge crashed into the post office in the 6200 block of Eastern Avenue near Hopkins Bayview. The occupants of the car ran from the scene. The car had been reported stolen...
The Towson women’s basketball team’s first NCAA tournament appearance was a brief one. Despite 20 points from Kionna Jeter, the 15th-seeded Tigers fell to second-seeded Connecticut, 110-61, in the first round Friday night in Storrs, Conn. Playing on the Huskies’ home floor, Towson (20-13) was outscored...
In the beginning, the Maryland men’s basketball team had hope for a possible trip home to play in the Sweet 16 at Capital One Arena in Washington. In the middle, there was a sense of hopelessness, as third-seeded LSU led by as many as 15 early in the second half. But after the sixth-seeded Terps...
Block out the noise and just play. That’s what the Florida State Seminoles had to do during their ACC Tournament matchups against the top-seeded Virginia team and a potent Duke squad that features one of the most heralded players in the country. It prepared them well for the Big Dance. No. 4 seed...
People always seem surprised in moments like this. Always shocked. But they have no right to be. After all, the road goes where the road goes. If you travel southbound U.S. 1 long enough, you are not surprised to end up in Key West. If you stay on northbound Interstate 5 long enough, you are not...
During the time of the unrest nearly four years ago following the death of Freddie Gray, who was fatally injured while in police custody, the worst of who we are versus the best of who we can be was exposed for the entire world to see. Baltimore had repeatedly been shaken until the pressure was...
To truly reform Baltimore’s justice system and protect black communities from systematic persecution and criminalization, Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby must refuse to prosecute all non-violent, low-level offenses that unnecessarily clog the courts — not just the marijuana possession...
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A natural, plant-based skin care line plans to move its corporate, manufacturing and research and development operations to space near Baltimore-Washington International Airport from San Antonio, Tex., according to the company and St. Johns Properties, which leased the property. Shankara produces...
A hotel management company operator has been charged with submitting fraudulent loan applications to a Maryland bank to buy millions of dollars in commercial and residential properties. A court filing Thursday charged Mehul Ramesh Khatiwala of New Jersey with bank fraud and conspiracy to commit...
Maryland lost 5,800 jobs in February, according to jobs data released Friday by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, though the state’s unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.7 percent. The rate has remained steady since December but was down from 4.2 in February last year....
Maryland is among seven states where CVS stores will soon begin selling topical products infused with the hemp derivative CBD. The pharmacy chain will soon begin offering creams, lotions, sprays, roll-on products and salves containing CBD, a wellness ingredient used to treat ailments ranging from...
The Baltimore Eagle, the former gay leather bar in Old Goucher, will reopen April 19 as a “safe space” where members of the LGBTQ community will be able to “feel free,” according to its new owners. The news ends months of uncertainty and cryptic messages as to the fate of the popular night club...
Roseanne Barr apparently does not like Sara Gilbert anymore. Not one bit. Not since Gilbert, her former co-star, tweeted that the “Roseanne” star’s Ambien-fueled comments about Valerie Jarrett were “abhorrent and do not reflect the beliefs of our cast and crew or anyone associated with our show.”...
A new restaurant set to open next month in Crofton will bring a dish more commonly associated with Canada than Maryland, and deep connections to the music business. AshlingKitchen & Bar is set to open April 2 at 1286 Route 3 S., the former location of longtime local favorite Christophers. Owners...
ABC has renewed its highest-rated new show, "The Conners," for a second season, Variety has learned. The show's stars, including John Goodman, Sara Gilbert, Lecy Goranson, Ames McNamara and Laurie Metcalf, are all set to return to Lanford, after several of them signed a new deal with the network...
Gusty winds are expected to continue sweeping the region Friday after heavy rains caused some flooding in the Baltimore area. The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory from 1 p.m Friday until 5 a.m. on Saturday in portions of the far northwest Baltimore-Washington suburbs. Winds during...
When Michelle and Greg Webb bought their two-story, five-bedroom house in Pasadena’s Ventnor neighborhood in 2013, they knew they’d found the perfect home. It was located in a good school district, 30-minute commute from Michelle’s job at TEK Systems in Hanover, and it had a first-floor master...
The weather is warming, the birds are chirping and the days are getting longer -- spring is upon us in Baltimore. Here are some of the best ways to enjoy the spring season in Charm City and beyond.
Some 300 plants star in the lush, green posts of Hilton Carter’s Instagram feed, which, with 160,000 followers, made him a social-media green interior design star, gained him residential plant styling clients and led to a book deal. The Baltimore native, whose plants are split between his “Jungle...
Maryland has the second highest percentage of failed public housing inspections in the country, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Thursday. The report, which evaluated the inspection process by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, shows that Maryland properties...
For the past year, Maryland has been a global gateway for American natural gas extracted from the ground through hydraulic fracturing, or fracking — despite the state’s ban on the controversial process within its own borders. Fracked gas from Pennsylvania and other states is being piped to an export...
In a quiet pocket of Southern Maryland where beach bungalows line dirt roads to the Chesapeake Bay, the nation’s booming natural gas industry has established an unlikely multibillion-dollar foothold. For a year now, natural gas pulled from ancient shale formations deep below the surface of Pennsylvania...