The monitor overseeing reforms of the Baltimore Police Department said Thursday the dysfunction within the agency is so deep and widespread that it will take years longer than anticipated to root it out. “The Baltimore Police Department is a dysfunctional organization, a highly dysfunctional organization,”...
Maryland General Assembly leaders are considering a fast-track proposal under which lawmakers would legalize betting on football, basketball and other sports without first seeking voter approval in the 2020 election. A voter-approved referendum has long been considered a precursor for Maryland...
A Maryland State Police trooper was taken to the hospital and had surgery on his leg after he was injured while providing security for Gov. Larry Hogan’s inauguration yesterday. Spokesman Ron Snyder said Tfc. Brian Porter, a trooper with the K-9 unit from the North East Barracks in Cecil County,...
John Brown’s 2018 season peaked less than three months ago. Joe Flacco threw seven passes his way during a tense battle with the New Orleans Saints. Brown caught all seven for 134 yards and a touchdown. He’d bet on himself by signing a one-year contract in the offseason, and after seven weeks,...
Speaking at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore this week, feminist icon Gloria Steinem came across like a really hip great aunt, a smart, interesting woman who’s lived a rich, layered life — a life worthy of reflection and, on some scale, reverence, whether you subscribe to her politics or...
We live in a world today where despite advancement of human civilization, education and laws and guidelines securing and promoting universal human rights for all, we still see injustices, discrimination and biases. Unfortunately this trend appears to be rising (“Pitts: We've all seen this movie...
Unbelievable that you did not mention that a leading Democrat in Maryland — Ike Leggett — was also a guest speaker at the inauguration of Gov. Larry Hogan (“Hogan's second inaugural and the politics of self-sacrifice,” Jan. 16). Unbelievable. But very realistic that the "left" wants to shut down...
The health of the Chesapeake Bay is declining for the first time in a decade. This news is especially dire as the bay faces a new threat: the Trump administration’s offshore oil drilling plan (“Maryland leading challenge to Trump administration’s decision allowing seismic testing off Atlantic coast,”...
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Zest Tea, a Baltimore start-up marketing a line of high-caffeine teas and drink, said Thursday that it’s closed a $1 million funding round to spur its continued growth. The investments came from the Maryland Momentum Fund, a $10 million venture of the University System of Maryland, and Lord Baltimore...
Ollie’s Bargain Outlet, a discount chain based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, has leased a Towson location and plans to open this spring, a company official said. The store will open in the former Toys “R” Us in the Towson Place shopping center at 1238 Putty Hill Ave., where Ollie’s has leased a...
The number of furloughed federal employees seeking unemployment benefits jumped in the first two weeks of the shutdown, topping 10,000 during the week of Jan. 5. The Labor Department said Thursday that is double the number of federal workers who sought aid in the previous week. Typically fewer...
Verizon will hold a job information event Jan. 24 at its Hanover call center as it looks to hire 60 for its customer service team there. The telecommunications giant will conduct three 90-minute sessions starting at 9 a.m., 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. for interested candidates to learn about career opportunities...
What retirement? Ed Asner, the iconic actor who originated the character of Lou Grant in the beloved 1970s era newspaper drama bearing his name and before that, in “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” — Ed Asner, who so memorably portrayed Santa Claus in the 2003 film “Elf” and whose voice starred in the...
QueShawn Latimer, a Treasury Department employee from Millersville who is battling breast cancer, received a $5,000 grant from nationally syndicated talk show “The Real.” Latimer, who is affected by the federal government shutdown, is a mother of three children whose oldest son is deployed in the...
Mary Oliver, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose rapturous odes to nature and animal life brought her critical acclaim and popular affection, has died. She was 83. Bill Reichblum, Oliver's literary executor, says she died Thursday at her home in Hobe Sound, Florida. The case of death was lymphoma....
Good news for the hungry but budget-minded: Baltimore County Restaurant Week, offering reduced-price meals at more than 60 restaurants, begins Friday. The week (which actually runs 16 days, until Feb. 2) features fixed-price lunch, brunch and dinner menus, priced at $15-$35. The restaurants are...
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra musicians’ four-month contract extension expired late Tuesday. On the surface, nothing much has changed. The players aren’t on strike and management hasn’t locked them out. The concerts scheduled for this weekend will be performed as planned in Baltimore and Bethesda,...
As kids, Isaac Carr and Israel Thomas grew up playing the same video game: Super Smash Bros. Melee on the Nintendo GameCube. To win, a player must knock his or her opponent off a virtual stage using kicks, jabs, jumps and other moves that the gamers dictate with nothing but their fingers. On a...
After several years of planning, the Bunzzz Sports Bar & Grill has begun serving diners in the Gallery at Harbor Place shopping mall. The first-floor eatery at 200 E. Pratt St. officially opened in early December in the same location vacated by Brooks Brothers in 2016. (The clothing store relocated...
Barry Jenkins, the writer-director of “Moonlight” and the newly released “If Beale Street Could Talk,” might not have a career were it not for the advice he received from writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, the Oscar-winning filmmaker said Thursday night. “’Moonlight’ and ‘Beale Street’ would not exist without...
The Maryland Park Service is eliminating several dozen park-unique social media accounts, consolidating its messaging on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram into single accounts, much to the chagrin of parkgoers who like and want park-specific information. Word of the consolidation came on Twitter...
As opioid overdose deaths continued to mount in Maryland last year, state lawmakers asked medical marijuana regulators to determine whether cannabis could be effective at treating addiction to heroin, fentanyl and oxycodone. The answer — not really — was submitted to the General Assembly this week...
For decades, people living with disabilities could not save more than $2,000 without running the risk of losing key benefits, including their Supplemental Security Income. But following Maryland’s adoption of a recent change in the federal tax code, it reported that about 1,000 disabled individuals...