Talia Richman

Despite limited leg and arm function because of spinal cord injuries or other disorders, wheelchair rugby players find camaraderie and a sense of restored ability.

University president Wallace Loh, athletic director Damon Evans and football coach DJ Durkin will speak with the University System of Maryland’s Board of Regents during a closed session Friday afternoon.

More than 2,000 children from five schools and 10 daycares in West Baltimore were expected at the annual Sandtown Halloween Festival, which allows students in a often crime-ridden neighborhood to have a safe Halloween experience.

The Baltimore Sun has obtained a copy of the roughly 200-page investigative report probing the University of Maryland football program’s culture following allegations that the team was ruled by an atmosphere of bullying and intimidation.

An independent review of the University of Maryland’s football program stopped short of calling the program’s culture “toxic,” as alleged in multiple media reports, but it did find there was a “culture where problems festered because too many players feared speaking out.”

The first set of findings from an audit of the Baltimore Police Department's rampant overtime spending found a reliance on antiquated systems - including the use of paper "roll books" to record officers' attendance. The 11-page report has a number of recommendations for the agency.

Baltimore officials have released their initial findings and recommendations from a long-awaited audit of rampant police overtime spending. The city finance director says the review found the police department "lacks internal controls" to track regular hours and to make sure any OT is necessary.

An eight-person commission was tasked with probing allegations of a toxic culture within the team after the death of 19-year-old offensive lineman Jordan McNair. The former McDonogh standout died after suffering a heatstroke during practice in College Park.

Department financial records show a football program dwindling in popularity despite its high-profile athletic conference and a $196 million investment by private donors, the university and the state in a new football field house and multipurpose center.

A day after 11 people were shot, including three fatally, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh condemned the city’s drug trade and interim Police Commissioner Gary Tuggle announced about 230 officers assigned to administrative duties will leave their offices for patrol work.

The University System of Maryland’s governing body will be briefed Friday on the results of an investigation into the football culture at Maryland after the death of 19-year-old offensive lineman Jordan McNair and subsequent media reports that the team was ruled by bullying and intimidation.

Experts question why major heatstroke incidents in Maryland college football didn’t serve as a wake-up call before the death of University of Maryland's Jordan McNair — and they wonder what could be different now.

A look at three serious heatstroke incidents in five years at Maryland colleges: Gavin Class at Towson University, Marquese Meadow at Morgan State University and Jordan McNair at University of Maryland, College Park.

Passionate advocates for both sides of the issue packed the school system headquarters Thursday as the school board once again raised the question: Should Baltimore allow school-based officers to carry guns while patrolling the hallways?

Should Baltimore school police officers be allowed to carry guns while on campus? The city school board is bringing the issue back into the forefront, hosting a forum next week to gauge public support for the idea.

Dozens of players were on the field the day University of Maryland football player Jordan McNair fell ill during practice, suffering heatstroke that would lead to his death. But just six players agreed to speak to the consultant the university hired to investigate what happened that day.

Somewhere — perhaps on a computer in College Park — is surveillance footage of University of Maryland football player Jordan McNair’s final practice. But the university isn’t sharing it.

A midday shooting near the McCulloh Homes left residents feeling fed up, once again, with Baltimore’s violence.

An associate head of school at Glenelg Country resigned after an allegation that he engaged in a sexual relationship with a student, school officials wrote in a Thursday letter to families.

This year’s One Book Baltimore selection is “Dear Martin,” a novel by Nic Stone that follows a young black teenager through his senior year of high school.

The lack of air conditioning in Baltimore schools is far from the only facilities problem facing the district with many of the oldest buildings in the state. There are leaking roofs, rusted pipes, cracking steps and broken elevators — all piling up in a $3 billion backlog.

Johns Hopkins University graduate students rallied on campus Wednesday to announce plans to unionize and demand better working conditions.

More than 500 students living in Elkton Hall are being relocated to College Park hotels to allow contractors to clean every room in the building.

More than an hour passed between the time University of Maryland football player Jordan McNair started displaying initial heatstroke symptoms and when university officials called 911, sports medicine consultant Dr. Rod Walters said at a news conference Friday.

Department spokeswoman Blair Skinner said an ambulance was stolen from the downtown Mercy Medical Center around 1:50 a.m. It was recovered, unmanned, shortly after 2 a.m.

Two women were killed and eight people were displaced in three separate fires in the Baltimore area early Wednesday morning, according to local officials. 

Baltimore County firefighters responded to the Days Inn motel in the 1600 block of Whitehead Ct. at about 12:20 a.m.

The explosive ordinance disposal unit responded to a bomb threat just after 7:30 a.m.

Three people were shot — including one fatally — in Baltimore overnight, police said Wednesday morning.

A SWAT team was deployed to arrest Tavon Powell, 37, who police say shot two people in a Dundalk home in late August.

Police responded to the Broadway East neighborhood for a report of a stabbing on Monday afternoon. They found a man with stab wounds to his torso. He was taken to a local hospital, where he died Tuesday.

The airline was dealing with an outage at the domestic ticket counter, according to a tweet from the BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport account. The issue has since been resolved.

For more than an hour, the students went over their list of demands and grilled Hrabowski on how he planned to solve the scourge of sexual violence on campus. Their protest was spurred by a lawsuit brought by two former UMBC students who said they were raped in separate incidents.

A 56-page, class action lawsuit filed Sept. 10 in federal court alleges a culture in Baltimore County — extending to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, suppresses sexual assaults.

The university has since changed the group's name, originally dubbed "White Awake," and description.

The Baltimore City Council’s taxation, finance and economic development committee voted Thursday on amendments that represent some wins and losses for both sides of the debate over Airbnb-style rentals. Councilman Eric Costello and Council President Bernard C. “Jack" Young introduced the bill.

Baltimore’s spending board votes to pay $1.1 million to cover a Christian pregnancy center’s legal fees. A federal court ruled a city law violated the First Amendment rights of the Greater Baltimore Center for Pregnancy Concerns.

Attorneys representing the family of late University of Maryland football player Jordan McNair have sent a notice to state officials signaling that they might sue.

Tracey Carrington was on her way, friends and family say. Then, last week, she was gunned down by an unknown assailant while she was leaving a sports bar on Belair Road. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Maryland is home to some of the top-ranked colleges and universities in the nation, according to the 2019 U.S. News & World Report rankings. The annual report, released Monday, shows Maryland with a strong presence in nearly every category.

The majority of Baltimore schools have relied on bottled water for a decade, following revelations about lead contamination that forced officials to ban students from drinking out of water fountains or sinks.

Gov. Larry Hogan publicly rebuked Baltimore schools CEO Sonja B. Santelises on Wednesday, accusing her of failing to live up to her commitments on a timetable to air-condition seven schools where students were dismissed early as a result of the heat.

Baltimore City will close more than 60 schools three hours early on Wednesday, and the county will keep eight schools and two centers closed for the day.

Jacob Mitich had made it to Round 2 of the Madden NFL 19 tournament in Jacksonville, Fla., and had almost scored a touchdown when the shots rang out.

In a district where African-American children made up roughly 80 percent of the student body last year, only about 40 percent of the system’s roughly 4,900 teachers were black. District officials say something must change, for the sake of Baltimore’s future.

After years of stagnation, Baltimore City shows encouraging growth in math and English test scores in 2018.

A shooting is still the rarest of events for a school, but attacks last spring in Maryland and Florida have prompted school districts across the state to take more steps to prevent such a tragedy.

The University System of Maryland’s governing board announced Friday that it has selected former Gov. Bob Ehrlich and four others to join a commission tasked with investigating the football culture at the state’s flagship.

Goucher College joined a growing number of schools around Maryland and across the country to ban smoking on campus. The number of campuses that ban smoking doubled between 2012 and 2017.

The woman’s cause of death is under investigation and will be determined by the state’s medical examiner’s office, Skinner said.