The Baltimore County School Board is scheduled to vote Tuesday night at a special meeting to give Interim Superintendent Verletta White a one-year position elsewhere in the system, although the details are being kept secret until after the public vote. The agenda calls for the formal introduction...
For two decades, Mark Wasserman’s job has been to know the University of Maryland Medical System’s business and to bolster it by leveraging his long-standing connections with elected officials, lawmakers and other influential people. A consistent face in Democratic power circles in Baltimore and...
A new study on race and water affordability, which focuses part of its findings in Baltimore, suggests African Americans are disproportionately negatively affected by rising water bills and concludes by urging city leaders to pass new legislation to address the issue. “Water/Color: A Study of Race...
Donald G. Hammen, who represented Southeast Baltimore in the City Council and who later served in the Maryland House of Delegates, died of kidney failure May 18 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The Perry Hall resident was 79. Born in Baltimore and raised on South Clinton Street, he was the...
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan continues to review more than $200 million in funding for projects the legislature amended into the state budget — including funds for school construction, community colleges and testing rape kits — as Democratic lawmakers ramp up calls for him to release the money. For...
Roy Clayton Mitchell Jr., onetime gentleman farmer and former Democratic legislator who became speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates, died Thursday from complications from cancer at his Kennedyville home. He was 83. “We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of our 104th Speaker of the...
The two Baltimore County chapters of the NAACP have asked state legislative ethics officials to investigate Del. Robin Grammer’s recent Facebook post that the groups called “racist and inflammatory” for what they said was a reference to lynching black public school administrators. The two chapters...
A Baltimore woman faces up to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to distribute fentanyl with a drug trafficking organization by the name of “Lex Luthor.” April Wilkes pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, particularly fentanyl, on June 7 in U.S. District...
Vocational programs with the potential to propel students toward lucrative careers after graduation are concentrated in Baltimore’s top-performing high schools, while struggling schools are typically stuck with programs that funnel teens toward low-paying jobs, a recent audit found. Baltimore City...
Baltimore County’s newly appointed superintendent, Darryl Williams, will make $290,000 under a contract approved by the school board on Tuesday night. The contract has not yet been signed by both parties, but it comes just two weeks before Williams, a Montgomery County administrator, is set to...
The Baltimore school board voted Tuesday night to approve a new charter school in a growing part of the city. Patterson Park Public Charter School will replicate its highly sought-after program at a second location in Southeast Baltimore, with a goal of eventually enrolling 540 more kids between...
William Joseph Moulds Sr., a retired mathematics chair at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and Howard County mathematics supervisor, died of heart and kidney failure Saturday at Seasons Hospice at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center. The longtime resident of Phoenix in Baltimore County was 81....
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....
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...
Maryland and the federal government will recoup millions of dollars spent on the disastrous rollout of the state’s health insurance exchange created under the Affordable Care Act under a settlement with IBM, which supplied the technology. Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh and the U.S. Attorney...
Medical cannabis regulators in Maryland expanded testing for heavy metals in marijuana products as they warned the public about the risk for possible lead contamination in popular vaping devices. The Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission issued an advisory late Friday “to notify patients and other...
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John A. Byrd Sr., a retired distillery worker who had wide-ranging musical tastes, died June 2 of a heart attack at Future Care Homewood on North Charles Street. The longtime Govans resident was 75. John Andrew Byrd Sr., the son of John Byrd, a Bethlehem Steel Corp. welder, and his wife, Ottris...
Van R. Reiner, a former Bethlehem Steel Corp. executive who later became president and CEO of the Maryland Science Center, died June 5 of undetermined causes at his Bel Air home, family members said. He was 70. “Van’s death is a tremendous loss for the Maryland Science Center family,” said Mark...
Karyne B. Henry, president and CEO of Orion Public Relations and Crisis Management Services Inc., died April 5 from cancer at her Pikesville home. She was 55. Karyne Beatrice Henry, the daughter of Alvin A. Jones Sr., a certified public accountant, and his wife, Delaphine Henry, a financial sales...
Louise W. Christmas, an accomplished horsewoman who managed her family’s horse farm while breeding and training thoroughbreds with her husband, died Saturday of chronic complications of a lung disease at her Idleness Farm in Monkton. She was 84. “Louise was a little dynamo who kept everyone on...
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...
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....
Maryland is in the midst of its biggest spate of tornadoes in years, but some storm damage last week didn’t come from a cyclone — but what are known as macrobursts. The National Weather Service says macrobursts downed large tree limbs and snapped some telephone poles along two stretches in the...
The tornado that touched down in the Glenelg area of Howard County on Thursday afternoon was of moderate intensity, peaking at 100 mph and cutting across a 4.5-mile swath, according to the latest report from the National Weather Service on Friday night. The service also confirmed that a mild tornado...
More chances to spot the International Space Station over the Baltimore region arise this week. The satellite laboratory will appear in the northwest at 9:05 p.m. Monday, moving low over the northern horizon from the northwest to the east. It will pass right over the bright star Vega in the northeast...
A 12-inch water main broke in the Overlea area at Belair and Fullerton roads, the Baltimore City Department of Public Works said Monday just before 5 p.m. Officials said roads in the area were closed. This is at least the second water main break in Baltimore County reported Monday. The first was...
One person was injured in a three-car crash that has caused traffic on Interstate 95 southbound to back up Monday afternoon. Cpl. Edward Bartlinski, spokesman for the Maryland Transportation Authority Police, said the crash happened about 3:30 p.m. in the southbound lanes of I-95 near Exit 50,...
Mary Mervis Delicatessen used to serve a daily rush of 1,000 customers, who lined up for the Lexington Market stall’s meats and cheeses, corned beef sandwiches and shrimp salad. But traffic, already down to about 400 people a day since the Freddie Gray riots, has plummeted by at least half again...
Baltimore families living in public housing can now renew their leases through an online portal unveiled Monday by the city’s Housing Authority. The new technology presented in the form of kiosks inside the House Choice Voucher Program office are meant to save residents time when reapplying for...