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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Women's marches planned for Maryland as organizers push past national controversy
Susan Anderson had chartered a bus, accepted checks from fellow riders and readied her protest signs for the third annual women’s march in Washington, this year on Jan. 19. But then she heard the reports. An organizer of the first march, held the day after President Trump’s inauguration and still...
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Baltimore to host third annual women's march Jan. 19 separate from D.C. event the same day
Even as controversy has splintered the leadership of the original women’s march, held the day after President Trump’s inauguration and in opposition to him, Baltimore and other cities will again host their own gatherings in what has become an annual event across the country. Organizers in Baltimore...
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Detained immigrants seeking asylum at border get help from Baltimore attorneys, law students
The man from El Salvador told a chilling story: He had been assaulted by a gang and tried to report the crime to police. Instead, gang members accosted him again, holding up a cellphone that was on speaker so he could hear the threat directly. “I will hunt down your family one by one if you go...
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How does the partial government shutdown affect Maryland?
With President Trump vowing not to sign any appropriations bills unless they include $5 billion to build a wall on the border with Mexico, the federal government is in the midst of a partial shutdown. While about 75 percent of the government is funded by previously signed bills, some agencies are...
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Six months later, the Capital Gazette shooting still resonates, among family, community, news industry
Already, a museum exhibit tells the story of the mass shooting of five Capital Gazette employees, and how their surviving co-workers put out a damn newspaper the following day. Time magazine, recognizing their role in protecting freedom of the press at a time that is under threat worldwide, included...
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Just days before Christmas, federal employees in Maryland could be furloughed or have to work without pay
For the second time this year alone, some of the 300,000 Marylanders who work for the federal government could be furloughed or have to work without pay if Congress and the president cannot agree on funding for agencies from the IRS to Customs and Border Protection to the National Park Service....
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In Baltimore neighborhood, sadness over death of woman who helped panhandler, resolve to continue improvements
Less than six months ago city officials joined residents in the Johnston Square neighborhood to celebrate the transformation of Ambrose Kennedy Park from a dreary cityscape of broken asphalt, patchy brown grass and neglected basketball courts into an inviting space for residents to walk on winding...
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By the numbers: Baltimore neighborhood where woman was killed helping panhandler challenged by many measures
Johnston Square is the East Baltimore neighborhood where a Harford County engineer was stabbed to death early Saturday morning after she gave money to a woman panhandling in the rain who appeared to have a baby with her. By many measures, it is one of Baltimore’s most impoverished and challenged...