A full day of activities are planned to mark the inauguration Wednesday of Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford. Here’s what you need to know to take in the day: What’s the big deal? Hogan will be sworn into office to begin his second term as governor. He’s only the second Republican...
Fatal overdoses are continuing their grim march upward in Maryland, and the bulk of the deaths continue to be related to the powerful opioid fentanyl, according to the latest figures from the state Department of Health. The deaths recorded in the first nine months of 2018 jumped 8 percent from...
Louis B. Weckesser, a retired Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory engineer and food bank volunteer, died Jan. 1 from complications of dementia at Harmony Hall Assisted Living in Columbia. The Ellicott City resident was 90. Louis Benjamin Weckesser was born in Baltimore, the son of Louis B....
Three Ravens were honored by the Pro Football Writers of America on Tuesday. Kicker Justin Tucker was the team’s lone player to earn All-NFL honors. It’s the third such time he’s been recognized as the league’s top kicker in voting by the PFWA. Tucker, also a first-team All-Pro selection by the...
I doubt Mickey Light ever met Joseph Campbell, the eminent scholar of myth and folklore, but I know of no one who better practiced what Campbell preached: “Follow your bliss. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you ...” When...
In early 1979, The Evening Sun ran a full-page ad announcing a new columnist lineup, including a promised thrice-weekly offering from a puppy-faced young reporter by the name of Dan Rodricks. “Dan Rodricks will slice bits and pieces of Baltimore and serve them up in a reporter’s stew. The column...
If Mayor Catherine Pugh’s political fortunes weren’t already tied to her selection of Baltimore’s next police commissioner, they definitely are now after she ignored widespread calls to engage in a more transparent, inclusive process once her first choice, Fort Worth Chief Joel Fitzgerald, backed...
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The Internal Revenue Service is recalling about 46,000 of its employees furloughed by the government shutdown — nearly 60 percent of its workforce — to handle tax returns and pay out refunds. The employees won't be paid during the shutdown. With the official start of the tax filing season coming...
McDonald's said it plans to appeal after losing some European Union trademark rights to the Big Mac name after a challenge by smaller Irish rival Supermac's. The EU's Intellectual Property Office in a Friday decision said McDonald's failed to prove "genuine use" of the trademark across the EU over...
Rising costs of prescription drugs have strained hospital budgets and operations, forcing health systems to cut costs by reducing staff, a new study found. Hospital drug spending increased by 18.5 percent between 2015 and 2017, a rate far exceeding medical inflation for the period, according to...
Netflix is raising its U.S. prices across the board in its biggest increase since the company launched its video streaming service 12 years ago. Its most popular plan will see the largest hike, to $13 per month from $11. That option offers high-definition streaming on up to two different internet-connected...
The Ejji Ramen restaurant in Belvedere Square is offering free meals to federal workers during the ongoing partial government shutdown. Federal workers with a valid government ID will be able to order a free Rice Bowl dish at the North Baltimore eatery, as well as at a second Ejji Ramen location...
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...
Baltimore’s Hampden neighborhood is home to one of the South’s best new bars, according to Garden & Gun magazine. The Bluebird Cocktail Room, the dimly lit bar known for artisanal drinks, literary references and elevated food, was the only Maryland establishment on the magazine’s list, published...
Legendary Broadway actress Carol Channing, who also starred on TV and on the big screen, died Tuesday. She was 97. Channing passed away at her home in California of natural causes, her publicist Harlan Boll said. The Seattle native won a Tony Award in 1964 for her performance of the lead role in...
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...
Baltimore ski enthusiasts now have a new way to head for the slopes. Liftopia, the online mobile marketplace for winter sports fans, has begun organizing ski trips by bus in various cities — including two locations in the Baltimore area that will drop off passengers at Liberty Mountain Resort in...
Hollie Stephenson, head brewer for the Guinness Open Gate Brewery & Barrel House in Halethorpe, has been named 2019 Beer Person of the Year by "Imbibe" magazine. A photo of a smiling Stephenson standing inside the Baltimore County plant — the Irish beer maker’s first stateside brewery since 1954...
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...