An anonymous group of women that included faculty and medical residents warned top University of Maryland, Baltimore officials in January that prominent surgeons had inappropriate sexual relationships with subordinates and created a “hostile work environment” in the medical school and its affiliated...
Black elementary school students who have black teachers are significantly more likely to enroll in college, according to a research paper co-authored by a Johns Hopkins University professor. A working paper published this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that black students...
With the first wave of absentee ballots from last week’s election counted, the outcome of the Howard school board race is unchanged. Vicky Cutroneo, Chao Wu, Jen Mallo and Sabina Taj were the winners and will fill four open seats in less than a month. Bob Glascock, the fifth-place candidate who...
Standing in a Bowie gym as the coach of the United States All-Stars in last spring’s Capital Classic, former Maryland point guard Keith Gatlin looked over to where Aaron Wiggins was going through a pregame workout. Gatlin turned to a reporter who had covered him for part of his career in College...
Half a century ago last week, Richard Nixon was narrowly elected president over Democrat Hubert Humphrey. In the final days of that 1968 campaign. Humphrey obtained FBI surveillance that, if disclosed, might well have defeated Nixon. But he never used it, and Nixon ran the country for nearly six...
Much is being made of the president’s targeting of CNN’s Jim Acosta, but TV news bears as much blame as anyone for our democracy’s dystopian decline, culminating in the presidency of an ignoramus with a personality disorder. With Congress supine and the courts packed by Sen. Mitch McConnell, readily...
Strap in, it's all going to get crazier. More than a week after the final votes were cast (but not necessarily counted), it's now looking like the Democrats had a blue wave after all. It didn't seem like it at first. Election night was more of an emotional roller coaster than you'd expect in a...
Since I arrived in Maryland 35 years ago, traffic congestion has increased almost exponentially. Yet relatively nothing has been done to alleviate the congestion problem. This is because very little can be done to accommodate a doubling or tripling of the number of vehicles. The simple reason for...
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BGE will temporarily close the Baltimore beltway in Sparrows Point on Saturday to allow for the removal of overhead electric lines, the utility said Thursday. The work will require eight separate, 15-minute closures of both the inner and outer loops of the beltway at Exit 43 (State Route 158/Bethlehem...
Tosheka Leslie picked up her clothes from Diplomat Cleaners for the last time Wednesday, after 20 years of patronage. “I don’t know where I’m going to go,” she said. The dry cleaning business, which opened in what is now the Free State Shopping Center in 1970, will close Saturday. In that time,...
Longtime Orioles manager Buck Showalter, whose departure from the team was announced in October, has placed his Baltimore County home for sale. The gated 5,579-square-foot residence, located in Lutherville, has five bedrooms, four and half bathrooms, a pool and a second catering kitchen for large...
Tourists spent more than $17 billion in Maryland last year — and many more visitors than usual came from New York, the Maryland Department of Commerce reported Wednesday. Overall visitation decreased slightly — from 42.1 million in 2016 to 41.5 million in 2017. But the city saw an increase in visitors...
Camp John Waters, a chance for determined reprobates to make like one of the best, will be returning in summer 2019. Set for Sept. 13-16 in the Berkshire Mountains of Connecticut, the sleepover camp for adults 21 and older “promises to be dirtier, filthier, raunchier and longer than ever before,"...
A man shocked theatergoers and alarmed members of Baltimore’s Jewish community when he shouted a pro-Nazi and pro-Trump salute during a performance at the Hippodrome Theatre on Wednesday night. The incident, during which the man shouted “Heil Hitler, Heil Trump,” was especially notable because...
Fadensonnen, a beer garden from WC Harlan and Clavel co-owners Lane Harlan and Matthew Pierce, will have its official opening Friday in the historic Old Goucher neighborhood. The biergarten, which will feature a 148-seat open-air courtyard and 35-seat upstairs bar, will be part of Socle, three...
Chris Stapleton won the most awards at the 2018 Country Music Association Awards and had the show's best performance, almost capping a perfect night. That was until Keith Urban surprisingly won the top prize — entertainer of the year — moments before the three-hour show wrapped Wednesday night....
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Thanksgiving is a holiday often marked by selflessness and giving. Every year provides a range of opportunities to do just that. Here’s a list of places to volunteer and donate that can make someone’s holiday that much better. Bea Gaddy Family Centers will be hosting a series of one-time volunteer...
World War I left America with newfound might. As if to prove it, on Nov. 16, 1918 — five days after hostilities ceased — Navy’s football team went out and thrashed its opponent, 127-0. Pity Ursinus College, from Collegeville, Pa., the victim of that rout at Farragut Field in Annapolis. Navy, coached...
Looking for the perfect Christmas gift for the Baltimore sports fan in your life? Here’s a present that will serve as the ultimate stocking stuffer. The new “You Gotta Know Baltimore” sports trivia game tests avid lovers of Charm City sports with 500 questions on the players, coaches, games and...
In the past six years, nearly 200 prisoners, mostly geriatric men convicted of rape and murder, have been set free in Maryland. Only one of them has been arrested again, researchers for the Justice Policy Institute have found. The Washington, D.C. nonprofit is pointing to those released under Maryland’s...
Close to a third of Maryland workers who filed injury compensation claims in recent years continued to rely on highly addictive opioid painkillers three months after they were hurt, according to a recent study by University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers. Excessive use of painkillers...
Maryland may have allowed residents who did not qualify for Medicaid into the government health program for the poor by failing to consider all of their income, according to a routine audit of the quasi-governmental agency that oversees the Maryland health exchange. The Maryland Health Benefit...