Jean Marbella
Jean Marbella is a reporter on The Sun’s investigative and enterprise team. She joined The Sun in 1987 and has been a health reporter, a feature writer, a national correspondent, an editor and a metro columnist. She has covered a broad range of stories from 9/11 in New York to Michael Phelps in the Olympics.
Recent Articles
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Annapolis, Perryman, Thousand Oaks: At active shooter workshop, no shortage of case studies
For the several dozen first responders attending an active-assailant workshop in Annapolis on Thursday, there was no shortage of real-life case studies from which to learn, both at home and across the country. And in fact, the daylong seminars on how to manage a mass shooting began with attendees...
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Maryland voters weather steady rain, ballot problems on Election Day to exercise civic enthusiasm
Other locales might have drawn more star power in recent days — from President Donald Trump jetting to 11 rallies in six days to Oprah seemingly taking up residence in Georgia — but Maryland voters descended on their polling places on Tuesday with a determined intensity of their own. Some braved...
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Just catching up to today's election in Maryland? Get filled in now on who's running and what's at stake
Maybe you purposely tuned out the pre-election noise — the endless TV ads, the mailbox-jamming campaign literature, the weekend door-knockers. Or you’ve been obsessing instead on the high-profile races in the likes of Texas and Georgia. Or maybe you just put off learning about the candidates and...
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Major University of Maryland donor asks Hogan, legislative leaders to support Loh
A donor whose name will grace a new $152 million computer science building at the University of Maryland, College Park has joined the chorus decrying the way the state’s Board of Regents handled the aftermath of a football player’s death. In a letter delivered to Gov. Larry Hogan and legislative...
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Fallout grows for University of Maryland, College Park, in aftermath of regents' response to player's death
As yet another University System of Maryland leader lost his post Thursday, consequences of the turmoil that followed the death of football player Jordan McNair began to materialize: The flagship institution’s main accreditation under scrutiny. Academic officials condemning a breakdown in integrity....
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Major University of Maryland donor halts funding over 'unacceptable' regents actions
Karen Levenson, a major donor to the University of Maryland, has halted future funding in the wake of what she said in a letter to the university system’s Board of Regents was the “unacceptable” way it handled the aftermath of football player Jordan McNair’s death. Levenson, a co-chairwoman of ...
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University of Maryland Foundation to regents: You may have dealt 'fatal blow' to $1.5B fundraising campaign
In a strongly worded letter sent Thursday morning, the University of Maryland’s major fundraising group condemned the Board of Regents, expressing outrage over how they handled the aftermath of the death of football player Jordan McNair and damaged the group’s effort to raise $1.5 billion for the...
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Can University of Maryland regain respect after mishandling response to Jordan McNair's death?
It took decades and hundreds of millions of dollars to build the University of Maryland at College Park into what its website calls “one of the nation’s preeminent public research universities.” But in less than a week, that hard-won prestige was tarnished by what was widely viewed as a botched...