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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Reporter sues Baltimore City Circuit Court administrative judge over denial of audio recording of proceedings
A freelance journalist who has reported on the deaths of Freddie Gray and Detective Sean Suiter has sued the administrative judge of Baltimore City Circuit Court after being denied a copy of an audio recording of a hearing. Justine Barron said in her complaint that she went to the courthouse April...
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Is your driver's license up to speed? REAL ID requirements cause confusion in Maryland
Imagine it’s sometime in June and you’re rushing to the airport to catch a flight for your vacation. In the rearview mirror, you see a police car flashing its lights to pull you over. You might get a speeding ticket — and worse, if you are one of some 66,300 Maryland drivers whose license needs...
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As University of Maryland Medical System scandal shows, boards of directors face more scrutiny than ever
What happens in the boardroom no longer necessarily stays in the boardroom. That, at least, is one takeaway from the recent scandal involving the University of Maryland Medical System’s board, nine of whose members were revealed by The Sun to have lucrative deals to sell goods and services to the...
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Changing of the Baltimore City Council guard as Clarke and Reisinger opt against running for reelection
When Mary Pat Clarke and Ed Reisinger leave their long-held City Council seats, having both announced Monday they would not seek reelection in 2020, more than 50 years of experience will exit a City Hall already in flux after Democratic Mayor Catherine Pugh’s recent resignation. But both say they’re...
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'I mean, who does that?': 1- and 2-year-olds, three adults injured in South Baltimore shooting, police say
Two children, 1 and 2 years old, a woman and two men were shot in the Carrollton Ridge neighborhood in South Baltimore on Friday night, Baltimore Police said. All the victims are in stable condition at area hospitals, the police said, after the shooting that left nearby residents and passersby...
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Baltimore Police: Two men killed in separate shootings on Friday
Two men were killed in separate incidents on Friday, Baltimore Police said. A 55-year-old man was fatally shot in the Curtis Bay neighborhood on Friday afternoon, police said. Police said they received a report of a shooting in the 4000 block of Pennington Ave. shortly before 4:30 p.m. and found...
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Baltimore Mayor Pugh resigns amid growing children's book scandal
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh resigned Thursday, apologizing for the harm she has caused to the city’s image amid a growing scandal over her sales of a self-published children’s book series. It was the latest blow to the leadership of a city that’s seen two mayors resign in scandal in less than...
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'New territory for Baltimore': A month of uncertainty over Mayor Pugh's future — and the city's
Mark Washington calls the efforts to redevelop the crime- and blight-ridden Tivoly Avenue area of his neighborhood a “Sisyphean rock.” But after 11 years and three mayors, all of whom he credits with helping push the rock up the hill, the community leader said he could finally see the top: The...