The Baltimore City Council began Monday to consider allowing mayoral campaigns to receive up to $1.7 million each in public money, part of an effort to diminish the influence of corporations and wealthy individuals over government. Legislation being introduced by Democratic Councilman Kristerfer...
Mary A. Schumaker, a former gallery owner who was known for her gourmet cooking, parties and being the “hostess with the mostess,” died June 7 of complications from cancer at Gilchrist Center in Towson. The Catonsville resident was 84. “Mary was one of my dearest friends and we met in jail,” Kendel...
President Donald Trump’s tweet that the United States will deport “millions” of undocumented immigrants next week has local immigration advocates seeking to delicately educate potential targets about their rights without creating panic. Trump, a Republican, tweeted Monday that “next week ICE will...
Douglas W. Franchot Jr., a retired lawyer and father of Maryland Comptroller Peter W. Franchot, died Thursday morning of cardiovascular failure at his Riderwood Village retirement community home in Silver Spring. “I just wanted to let everyone know that my father, Douglas Franchot, died peacefully...
Corine Frank, the vice chairwoman of the Anne Arundel County Republican Central Committee, has been appointed the new executive director of the Maryland GOP, starting next month. Frank — a candidate for the county school board, a PTA leader and a married mother of two — is to take the job at the...
When Republican President Donald Trump tweeted Friday that U.S. forces had held off from a planned retaliation against Iran for what the American military says was that country’s shooting down a drone, reactions from Maryland Democrats included advice, warnings and concern. Here’s the statement...
Former Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake went on CNN on Thursday to defend Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden after his controversial remarks about working with segregationists senators. At a fundraising event in New York on Tuesday, Biden pointed toward two segregationist senators...
One man died overnight Sunday from blunt force trauma and three others were injured in separate shootings, Baltimore Police said Monday morning. The incidents follow a violent weekend in Baltimore where on Saturday 11 people were shot, three fatally, throughout the city. Around 8:45 p.m. Sunday,...
It doesn't take long to realize how friendly Darlington County, S.C., school bus driver Bernadine "Bee Bee" Reed is. Even before a visitor to the school district offices can get into the building, Reed has already introduced herself and started talking to the visitor. Reed said she's from Baltimore....
The University System of Maryland outlined some of the questions it will aim to investigate as part of an independent review of a fatal adenovirus outbreak on the College Park campus in 2018. Olivia Paregol, a University of Maryland freshman from Howard County, died Nov. 18 of an illness related...
A member of Goucher College’s board of trustees is helping fuel anti-vaccination movements throughout the United States, spending millions of dollars alongside her husband to fund the efforts, according to a report Wednesday in The Washington Post. Lisa Pagliaro Selz, who graduated from the private...
The clock ticked to 2:40 p.m., and students and teachers trickled out of 2525 Kirk Ave., some wiping away tears. It was the end of the school year and, unless the state board of education steps in, the end of Baltimore’s Monarch Academy. Rallies and appeals weren’t enough to stop the city school...
A federal judge temporarily blocked Trump administration rules aimed at steering money away from organizations in Baltimore that provide abortion referrals. The rules issued in March apply to so-called Title X family planning funding, and city officials who brought the lawsuit against the administration...
Newborns in Maryland will now be screened for four more conditions, bringing the total to 61, in an effort to begin treatment earlier for the rare, inherited disorders. The state is now among the top five nationally for the size of its testing panel, according to the state Department of Health....
Mary B. Maguire, a retired registered nurse and devout Roman Catholic, died June 6 at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center of complications from a series of falls. The Southwest Baltimore resident was 94. The former Mary Burke, the daughter of John Patrick Burke, a building contractor, and his...
Grace A. Harris, a retired physical therapist who after serving as chief of physical therapy for more than a decade at MedStar Franklin Square Hospital entered private practice, died June 1 of an intestinal blockage the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center. The longtime Monkton resident...
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Anthony “Bubba” Green, a former Baltimore Colts defensive lineman who later became a public safety advocate following the death of his teenage daughter, died Friday from lung cancer. He was 61. Born in Cape May, New Jersey, to Elmer W. Green, a police officer, and Delores Lee, a special needs teacher,...
Anthony “Bubba” Green, a former Baltimore Colts defensive lineman who later in life became a public safety advocate, died of cancer Friday, according to his family. He was 61. Green’s 14-year-old daughter, Deanna Green, died in 2006 after being electrocuted by a fence in Druid Hill Park. After...
Morris Lee Krome was a man of many nicknames. He was known as “Moe” among his Maryland State Police colleagues during his lifelong service and “Mike” by those who knew him from his family’s farm. Friends teased that he was “Major Mower” for all the time he spent toiling over his property’s grass,...
John H. “Jack” Griffin, a retired CSX executive who during his 44-year career rose from being an office boy to director of the railroad’s passenger operations, died Monday in his sleep at his Oak Crest Village retirement community home in Parkville. The former Catonsville, Westminster and Towson...
It’s been a month since Baltimore City Council President Brandon Scott established a special committee focused on cybersecurity and emergency preparedness as City Hall recovers from a ransomware attack that still cripples several city payment functions. One of the committee’s co-chairmen, Councilman...
Four top executives at the University of Maryland Medical System have resigned amid investigations into accusations of self-dealing among the hospital network’s board members, the system announced Thursday. Those resigning are Megan Arthur, the system’s primary lawyer; Jerry Wollman, the chief...
The University of Maryland Medical System, under fire for lucrative no-bid contracts with some of its board members, is earning above-average profits even as it seeks state approval to charge some patients more, according to an analysis by The Baltimore Sun. The system’s profitability raises questions...
Emails between top executives and board members at the University of Maryland Medical System show a concerted effort in recent months to avoid sharing unscripted information about the lucrative business deals the system had with some of those board members. The emails, obtained by The Baltimore...
Catonsville set a new Maryland record for annual precipitation in 2018: nearly 85 inches, meteorologists confirm. Until now, Maryland did not have an official precipitation record within National Centers for Environmental Information documentation of state-by-state climate extremes. Totals as high...
Flash flooding is possible for some parts of Western and Central Maryland from storms expected to be capable of dropping several inches of rain Tuesday. A flash flood watch is in effect for Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Prince George’s and St. Mary’s counties until 11 p.m. as the National Weather...
Flash flooding is possible as severe storms and rain showers move across the Baltimore region Monday afternoon and evening, marking the start of a period of wet weather forecast this week. A flash flood watch was in effect through 10 p.m. and a severe storm watch was in place through 11 p.m. across...
It doesn’t feel much like June in Baltimore, but it’s not so much because of the (lack of) heat. It’s the humidity. Temperatures dropped to 58 degrees early Friday morning at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, and are expected to peak in the mid-70s Friday afternoon....
A Severn man has been indicted on gun and drug charges after a police raid of his residence yielded a haul of drugs, paraphernalia, cell phones, a gun and ammunition. Joshua Joseph Warren, 34, of the 8000 block of Stewarton Court, has been charged with two counts of possessing a firearm despite...
David Zinman, the former music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and a pivotal figure in the arts group’s history, visited the players’ picket line Monday to express his outrage at the efforts to shorten the orchestra’s season. “I was shocked, mortified and horrified to hear what was...
Two teens were transported to hospitals Sunday after a golf cart being driven by a third teen overturned at Southern High School, fire officials said. Anne Arundel County firefighters responded to calls for injured people around 6:30 p.m. Sunday, the department said in a release. They arrived to...
The Rev. Bruce Lewandowski was unlocking the doors of Sacred Heart of Jesus Church for the first services early Sunday morning when he noticed a family of immigrants in a van outside. The pastor greeted them: “You're here early for church.” Lewandowski said they replied, “‘We stayed here all night....