Two more members of the University of Maryland Medical System’s board of directors have resigned amid intense scrutiny over contracting practices. Stephen A. Burch, chairman of the University of Maryland Medical System board of directors, said Tuesday that he has accepted the resignations of members...
For as long as the Orioles tried to hold on to the magic from the 2014 division-championship roster, the speed with which the organization has been stripped of any remnants of its best team in a generation is striking. Those 96-win Orioles that won the American League East and made it to the American...
Employees of Amazon’s newest Baltimore-area warehouse work alongside a fleet of robots to store, select, pack and ship hundreds of thousands of orders each day to send to consumers’ doorsteps. On Tuesday, the e-commerce giant marked the official opening of the state-of-the-art fulfillment center...
Construction of a super track in Laurel could begin this October, with work on a “world-class” Bowie Training Center following, representatives for The Stronach Group told the Bowie City Council on Monday evening. Attorney Michael Johansen said if the funding legislation they’re lobbying for in...
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...
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...
Baltimore Mayor Catherine E. Pugh did not fully disclose the $500,000 business relationship she started in 2011 with the University of Maryland Medical System during the time she was a state senator, a period during which she sat on the hospital network’s board of directors and oversaw issues involving...
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,...
After a series of meetings with Walt Disney Pictures honcho Alan Horn, fired director James Gunn will return to the Marvel fold. Gunn has been re-hired to direct the third installment in the "Guardians of the Galaxy" franchise, the Chris Pratt and Zoe Saldana series about misfits who protect outer-space,...
Step out David Boteach’s front door and a gentle world beckons — one filled with wondrous plants, waterfalls and whimsical bronze busts of fauna peeking over the leafy flora. Here sit two frogs shyly holding hands beside a lily pond; there stands a blue heron looking past a cinnamon-skinned paperbark...
Sitting in the living room of her new Pikesville home, best selling author Jill Smokler glances out the floor-to-ceiling windows at her lush backyard — her personal oasis, complete with a patio, hammock and pool — the part of the home she fell in love with first. “I had just come from this retreat...
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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....
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...