Doug Donovan

After federal agents executed search warrants on seven locations with ties to embattled Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, the Maryland Center for Adult Training remained closed the next day.

The job training nonprofit tied to Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh that federal investigators raided Thursday has been run by an executive director who was convicted of stealing more than $850,000 years ago.

Baltimore building inspectors visited Pimlico Race Course this week and confirmed deterioration in the Old Grandstand that led the Maryland Jockey Club to close off nearly 7,000 seats for Preakness weekend next month.

Pimlico Race Course is struggling to handle the number of phone calls it is receiving from Preakness ticket holders trying to exchange the seats they purchased that are located among the nearly 7,000 that the Maryland Jockey Club said were no longer safe.

The decision to close nearly 7,000 seats in Pimlico Race Course's oldest section took many in Baltimore by surprise, especially since the announcement comes a month before the Preakness and just days after the track's owner lost a contentious fight in Maryland General Assembly over its plans.

The Old Grandstand — the last remaining historic section of Pimlico Race Course — is being shut down a month before the upcoming Preakness Stakes after an engineering firm determined that 6,670 seats in the open-air seating area “is no longer suitable to sustain that level of load bearing weight.”

The Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission threatened to shut down pre-approved marijuana companies that do not obtain their licenses or start their operations by Sept. 30.

State legislators hoping to find a way to stop large, multi-state firms from taking control of the state’s medical cannabis industry realized couldn’t turn back the clock without getting the state sued, so they acted instead to draw a line limiting further consolidation.

Three aides to Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh have been placed on leave, according to a source familiar with the matter. The aides are Gary Brown Jr. and Poetri Deal, who work in the city’s lobbying office, and Afra Vance-White, who is the city’s director of external relations, the source said

Maryland government officials want to stop paying generous bonuses to executives at the University of Maryland Medical System until the completion of the independent review of the hospital network's contracting policies ordered after outrage erupted over insider deals with board members' companies

The entire membership of the Baltimore City Council — except acting Mayor Jack Young — has called on Mayor Catherine Pugh to resign amid her "Healthy Holly" scandal.

The market for Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh's “Healthy Holly” books has fluctuated rapidly since her first sale as a state senator in 2011 until her most recent deals since being sworn in at City Hall in 2016.

Maryland is poised to embark on a pilot program that would bring addiction treatment with opioid replacement medications into state prisons, where their use has been barred for years. Support to alter the policy was buttressed by success the medications have had stemming overdose deaths elsewhere.

Baltimore boosters have sent letters to Maryland Senate leaders asking them to kill a bill that would change funding formulas for how the state subsidizes improvements to racetracks, legislation that would favor Laurel Park in Anne Arundel County over Pimlico Race Course.

The head of the Baltimore Board of Ethics said Tuesday she expects the panel to discuss Mayor Catherine Pugh’s book sales in a closed session of its regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday afternoon.

The auto insurance company created by the Maryland General Assembly for hard-to-insure drivers gave a $7,500 donation in 2012 to Health Holly LLC, the book company formed by Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh and currently under scrutiny for its operations.

When Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh temporarily steps down at midnight Monday, City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young will take over as ex officio mayor. The 64-year-old married father of two has served on the council for 21 years, leading the body as president since 2010.

The independent consulting firm hired to untangle the ethical knots caused by insider contracts between the University of Maryland Medical System and several of its board members is scheduled to begin its work on Tuesday.

Gov. Larry Hogan on Monday formally requested the state prosecutor investigate allegations of self-dealing and no-bid contracting involving Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh in her role as a member of the University of Maryland Medical System board.

The Baltimore County medical cannabis growing company on Monday sued Maryland regulators to stop them awarding licenses to four new competitors withdrew the lawsuit Friday amid a torrent of backlash accusing the politically-connected firm of trying to derail an attempt to diversify the industry.

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh is apologizing for upsetting "the people of Baltimore" with her book deal with the University of Maryland Medical System. While on the hospital network's board, she sold the system 100,000 copies of her "Healthy Holly" books for $500,000.

The owner of Pimlico Race Course has sent a letter to Baltimore's top lawyer, asking him to withdraw the city's lawsuit seeking to seize ownership of the track and the Preakness Stakes. The Stronach Group argues only the state of Maryland can take actions related to the racing industry.

A Baltimore County company that is licensed by the state to grow and sell medical cannabis is attempting to stop the Maryland commission that regulates the industry from awarding four new licenses to potential competitors.

Baltimore Del. Nick Mosby on Tuesday called on Anne Arundel County officials to immediately conduct inspections of the living conditions that Laurel Park provides to its backstretch workers at the racetrack.

A Baltimore delegate has asked his colleagues from Anne Arundel County to withdraw their bill seeking to change how Maryland funds racetrack improvements until "deplorable" living conditions for workers in Laurel Park dorms can be inspected.

A retired public corruption investigator has filed a complaint with his former state agency against Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, alleging she perjured herself by not reporting her Healthy Holly company in annual ethics disclosure forms when she was a state senator.

As state lawmakers contemplate reforming how the University of Maryland Medical System handles contracts with insiders, a Baltimore Sun review of other hospitals' disclosures show the practice is not rare. Only Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation dabbled in politics.

Mayor Catherine Pugh says she has properly reported and paid taxes on all sales of her “Healthy Holly” books, and called inquiries into her finances related to those transactions a “witch hunt.”

The University of Maryland Medical System labeled its most recent $100,000 purchase of books from Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh as a "grant" to the city public school system, a mischaracterization that tax experts say is a violation of federal reporting rules for tax-exempt hospitals.

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh’s book company has given $7,040 in political contributions over three years — including a $5,000 gift to her own campaign. Healthy Holly LLC also gave $1,000 to Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr.’s campaign, as well as $1,000 to state Sen. Jill Carter.

Mayor Catherine Pugh has resigned from the University of Maryland Medical System Board.

Gov. Larry Hogan and Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller say the University of Maryland Medical System needs to put an end to any conflicts of interest in business deals for members of the system’s board of directors.

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has amended her financial disclosure filings amid scrutiny over the sale of copies of her children's books to the University of Maryland Medical System, where she is a long-time member of the board of directors.

Baltimore’s Human Trafficking Collaborative hosts an event next month to help people who are typical targets for being forced into labor and sexual exploitation. The year-old organization has one major hurdle: people who are most vulnerable often don’t know it until it's too late.

General Assembly leaders are expressing outrage and calling for reforms and an audit of the University of Maryland Medical System after The Baltimore Sun reported nine members of the system’s board — including Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh — have business deals with the hospital network.

The Maryland Senate is poised Tuesday to approve a bill that would radically alter state regulations to allow companies to own up to five medical cannabis retail stores, an expansion that many locally owned marijuana dispensary owners say will benefit large out-of-state firms.

The rapid conclusion to a hushed but hurried police manhunt shocked the state and nation even more than the tragic tale Keith and Valeria Smith tearfully told in December about how Keith’s wife, Jacquelyn, had been stabbed to death through a car window after giving money to a panhandler

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh turns 69 on Sunday and is celebrating on Tuesday with a high-priced fundraiser for her campaign featuring three Democrat county executives.

Stanley Black & Decker claims in a lawsuit filed in federal court this week that Sears has violated an agreement over how the struggling retail chain can market the Craftsman brand of tools.

Keith Smith benefited financially from his wife, Jacquelyn Smith, during her life — and had sought to be the executor of her estate, which he said was worthless. Now Keith Smith and daughter Valeria Smith stand accused of murdering Jacquelyn and concocting a story about a panhandler in Baltimore.

Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh says a coalition of nine states that joined a federal lawsuit in December to prevent underwater seismic testing in the Atlantic Ocean is asking a judge to halt the practice while the case proceeds.

The Baltimore Sun has been detailing the memoir, Eyes of Justice, by James Cabezas, the longtime investigator for the Maryland State Prosecutor's office.

Even after her stepmother, Jacquelyn Smith, was brutally murdered in December, Valeria Smith never mentioned the killing to a potential investor she was courting to support her various business ventures. The 28-year-old woman even lied on social media about the investor becoming her partner.

Maryland lawmakers are set to discuss two bills in Annapolis that have vastly different visions for Pimlico Race Course. One point of contention expected to emerge is just how much of state-permitted money from slot machines and wagering has gone to renovate Laurel while Pimlico has deteriorated.

State and local lawmakers have said for years they do not want to see the Preakness leave Baltimore. Yet no one raised any alarms as Pimlico's owner was focusing most of its finances of turning Laurel Park into a "super track" that would host the third leg of the Triple Crown.

Local residents, elected officials and others fighting for the revitalization of the historic Pimlico Race Course in Northwest Baltimore blasted the racetrack’s owner on Tuesday for investing the vast majority of its state renovation subsidies into its other horse-racing track at Laurel.

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh accused the Maryland Jockey Club of wanting to abandon the city for a preferred Laurel location, saying the firm “allowed Pimlico to deteriorate" by spending most of its state-funded improvements in Laurel, not Pimlico.

Officials in Annapolis and Baltimore are wrestling with a proposal by the owner of Maryland’s two largest horse racing tracks to turn Laurel Park into a “super track” capable of hosting some of racing’s largest events – perhaps even the coveted Preakness Stakes.

The Kushner Cos., a firm run by White House adviser Jared Kushner's family, just purchased 6,000 properties in Maryland and Virginia, adding to an already sizable real estate holding in the Mid-Atlantic region.

Ten weeks after a study recommended that the city, state and Pimlico Race Course owner negotiate over the track's uncertain future, the dialogue has become strained and elected officials now say they are battling to prevent the Preakness Stakes from ditching Baltimore.