Former state Sen. Francis X. Kelly resigned Friday from the University of Maryland Medical System Board of Directors — just days after fellow board members had asked him to return — amid continued fallout from the self-dealing scandal that has rocked the hospital network. In a letter to outgoing...
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra musicians protested outside the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall on Monday morning, carrying signs and chanting “Save the BSO!” after being locked out of the performing center as management continues to negotiate salaries. Management abruptly canceled the orchestra’s summer...
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...
Mirage Cruz windmilled his arms Sunday in a gold Rico Cavalli costume as he danced his way through a crowd of rainbow-clad families in Druid Hill Park to the driving bassline of Todrick Hall’s “Glitter.” Baltimore’s King of Pride 2005 wears a new outfit to the festival each year, and he decided...
Baltimore police arrested and charged a man who officers allege stole a woman’s car Saturday night and crashed it into a tree near the Inner Harbor. The department wrote in a news release Sunday that officers were called to the 700 block of Light St. at around 11 p.m. Saturday for a report of a...
All publicly available single-occupancy bathrooms in Baltimore are now required to be gender-inclusive after Bernard C. “Jack” Young signed a bill banning gender-specific restrooms into law Saturday during Baltimore’s Pride Parade. Young made Baltimore the latest major metropolitan city to ban...
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...
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...
A male victim was shot in Northeast Baltimore on Saturday night, police said. The shots were registered by Shotspotter at 9:23 p.m., said Detective Jeremy Silbert. Officers in the area also heard the shots and responded to the scene in the 2700 block of Hugo Ave. — just off Harford Avenue in the...
Firefighters fought a two-alarm fire on Saturday night that has brought an early end to the school year for the Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys, a public charter school in North Baltimore, officials said. “This is unfortunate news to end the school year where children are going to miss out...
The Baltimore bank they hit Saturday afternoon made it a full dozen, and that’s not counting the unsuccessful attempt in the county hours before. According to the FBI, a single criminal crew of two men and two women is now suspected in 12 bank robberies across the Baltimore region since March....
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...
Anne Arundel County police said they arrested a public schools substitute teacher Monday after she engaged in sexual activity with a North County High School student. Police said they responded June 4 to North County High after a student, who also attends the Center of Applied Technology North,...
Cash registers weren’t functioning at Target stores across the country on Saturday — including at the store in the Canton Crossing shopping center in Southeast Baltimore. Store manager William Byrd said most of the store’s cash registers shut down about 1:20 p.m., briefly began working again and...
Mirror shards covered the edges of the picture frame. Brush in hand, the Rev. Dr. Alveda King dabbed the edges with black paint, nodding in approval at the work of a child sitting across the table. “This is so therapeutic, I could do this all day,” said King, the niece of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther...
A 16-year-old boy was wounded in the leg aboard a bus in downtown Baltimore on Friday night in what police believe was an accidental, self-inflicted shooting. Detective Jeremy Silbert, a Baltimore Police spokesman, said officers were called to the 100 block of E. Baltimore St., near the intersection...
Baltimore Pride is this weekend, and there are things you will want to know. Last year some 30,000 people came out for the annual celebration of the LGBTQ+ community — which is one of the oldest pride events in the nation, organizers say — so you might want to have a game plan. “We just have so...
For two weeks, Lisa Richard sat on the hard wooden benches of a Baltimore County courtroom and watched the trial for the teenager accused of killing her son unfold. The friends and family of Sebastian Dvorak — a beloved Canton bartender who was robbed and shot while walking home on Boston Street...
The pages of an old Arrow street directory state the precise location of a new harbor hotel and office building. The directory locates Wills Street “From Dock [Street] south and east of Eden.” The $117 million development there rose from its formidable foundation in the last few months, and the...
When Baltimore police Sgt. Ethan Newberg told fellow officers to arrest a bystander who criticized their tactics as they detained another man, the 24-year veteran of the department said the pedestrian had been “interfering.” Body camera footage from the May 30 incident released Friday by the Baltimore...
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...
The man charged with impersonating a police officer and raping a woman was denied bail by a judge Friday afternoon. Richard S. Barnes, a guard at University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, appeared via video screen for a bail review hearing. The hearing was originally scheduled for yesterday but...
It was frigid in the pre-dawn hours in West Baltimore. An icy breeze swept through a mostly boarded-up neighborhood on North Carey Street. But the atmosphere in Cumberland & Carey Park couldn’t have been warmer. Men and women in running shoes emerged from the darkness and traded hellos and high-fives....