A selection of the 44 best photos from the 144th Preakness by The Baltimore Sun photo staff. Our other favorite photo galleries: Scenes from InfieldFest Bodexpress throws jockey out of the starting gate War of Will wins the 144th Preakness Stakes
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A 21-year-old bystander was shot during an altercation involving two other men outside of a convenience store in Columbia on Saturday evening, Howard County Police said. Officers responded to the Sam’s Mart in the 5800 block of Stevens Forest Road for a reported shooting about 6:37 p.m. and found...
Two Catonsville Middle School softball fields that have been out of commission since last Sunday reopened Saturday morning. The fields had been closed after someone drove over them last weekend, causing damage to the diamonds. Catonsville Girls Softball, a recreational group of about 320 children...
Virginia will long remember erasing a five-goal deficit in the last 10 minutes of Saturday’s NCAA tournament quarterfinal against Maryland.
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...
Sometimes — check that, many times — I think we do not know what we want, and I mean diehard Baltimoreans, the ones who actually live in the city and plan to stay here until they die or polar bears show up on icebergs in the Inner Harbor, whichever comes first. Consider comments received here about...
One of the most important dates on the Baltimore calendar for 2019 will be July 9. That is when proposals for what used to be known as The Superblock are due at the city’s economic development agency. The plans presented on or before noon of that Tuesday could represent a significant step toward...
Considering the thousands upon thousands of criminal cases that have been investigated by police throughout Maryland over the last 30 years, and considering the number of criminal defendants who have been prosecuted by assistant state’s attorneys, convicted by juries and sentenced by judges during...
A plan backed by the real estate industry to get Baltimore’s property market moving again in the midst of a crippling ransomware attack will start Monday, the mayor’s office said. The ransomware, which shut down many city computer systems last week, has made it impossible for buyers to obtain certificates...
Maryland employers added 1,200 jobs in April, while unemployment remained unchanged at 3.8 percent, the U.S. Labor Department reported Friday. The state’s modest gain in jobs marked the third month this year with increases. The state has 19,300 more jobs than in April 2018, the preliminary figures...
Officials in the eastern North Carolina city of Greenville arrived to work one morning in early April to find the files on some 800 of their computers locked up. More than five weeks later, they’re still recovering from the debilitating cyberattack. The city of around 92,000 realized April 10 it...
A team of state auditors has begun a forensic audit of the University of Maryland Medical System, as mandated by state lawmakers in response to a self-dealing scandal that engulfed the system’s board of directors and leadership. Gregory Hook, head of the state’s Office of Legislative Audits, which...
Balticon 53 A Memorial Day-weekend tradition for more than half-a-century, Balticon offers area sci-fi fans the chance to geek out to their hearts’ content — dozens of vendors offering genre goodies, more than 300 hours of fan-centric programming (featuring authors, publishers, editors, artists,...
High temperatures, occasional sunburn-inducing rays and a relative lack of water options didn’t stop thousands of InfieldFest attendees from vibing out all day as horses raced around them. The roster struck a balance between house, EDM and hip-hop, all threaded together with a steady four-on-the-floor...
From Vanessa Williams to Gov. Larry Hogan and Cal Ripken Jr., the 144th Preakness Stakes drew a smattering of politicians, entertainers and athletes to Pimlico Race Course. Many arrived to the Northwest Baltimore track in SUVs. One came via Cessna plane. Absent were Kentucky Derby winner Country...
A black-eyed Susan is to the Preakness Stakes as a mint julep is to the Kentucky Derby. Only not as famous. Or liked. The black-eyed Susan is the official drink of the Preakness Stakes, and every third Saturday in May for the past 46 years, people can’t wait to gulp one down. Or maybe they can....
Sunday Silence. Easy Goer. Benign names, both. But 30 years ago, in the Preakness, those two colts staged a race for the ages, thundering down the stretch, head to head, in a white-knuckled finish that still stirs the blood of race fans. Stride for stride they ran — Sunday Silence, the Kentucky...
A couple Mondays ago, I was unable to get off work in enough time to get the kids from the afterschool sitter, who had a soccer game in Ellicott City. Her mother, a gem of a woman and apparently a saint, offered to take my three with her to the game — and bring them home afterward. The respite...
With the 144th running of Maryland’s premier sporting event just days away, we asked some of the folks who work so hard behind the scenes to step forward for once, to let everyone know not only what they do, but the pride they take in doing it. Being associated with the Preakness would be a point...
The United States is a remarkable country because it's an assembly of former colonies, territories and even independent nations that all banded together under one government. Despite joining the Union, each of the 50 states still has its own unique slang terms, traditions, culture, history and ...
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...
A trust managing Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s development business continued to make new real estate transactions last year, according to new financial disclosure forms filed by the governor. Hogan now has an ownership interest in 43 limited liability corporations — including four new companies...
What happens in the boardroom no longer necessarily stays in the boardroom. That, at least, is one takeaway from the recent scandal involving the University of Maryland Medical System’s board, nine of whose members were revealed by The Sun to have lucrative deals to sell goods and services to the...