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Mary T. Dempsey, who worked in medical billing, has died at 92.
- The new butcher shop and eatery will greet guests “as soon as possible,” said owner Robert Voss.
- It has been a year of staggering loss, with COVID killing more than 518,000 people in the U.S. alone. The shutdown triggered an economic crisis of business closures and double-digit unemployment, with as many as one in six Americans losing their job at one point.
- THB Bagelry & Deli is set to open in Owings Mills in May after being delayed by almost a year due to the coronavirus.
- The COVID-19 vaccine offers hope for a return to pre-pandemic life for Marylanders with intellectual and developmental disabilities, but they and those who support them are as frustrated as anyone with the difficulties of securing a vaccination appointment, and the community faces other unique challenges.
- Sinclair Broadcast Corp. said it will cut 5% of its workforce, including at its Baltimore-based headquarters.
- Among the nine bills are provisions that would overhaul the disciplinary process for police officers accused of wrongdoing, scrap decades-old job protections that critics claim protect bad cops and create a legal duty for officers to report misconduct within their ranks.
- Federal Election Commission reports show Republican Kim Klacik paid more than $4 million to GOP-oriented digital advertising and media companies to elevate her profile.
- Guy T. “Trev” Warfield III, former president of the Warfield Dorsey Co., a Towson insurance brokerage, died Feb. 22. The former longtime Riderwood resident was 91.
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- The unions contend school system leaders instructed staff to return to school buildings amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but refused to consider telework requests from those with underlying medical conditions.
- The famous horror writer Edgar Allan Poe didn’t have any children. But, he did have a great-nephew who shared his name and was the first owner of this estate.
- An East Baltimore man has been charged with attempted first-degree murder after Baltimore County Police say he shot a man in Parkville on Sunday.
- Baltimore County Police are searching for multiple suspects connected to a shooting that left one man injured with multiple gunshot wounds inside the Ramada by Wyndham hotel in Catonsville on Tuesday night.
- Frank Brooks Coakley, a pioneering Black manager of the old Maryland National Bank’s Mondawmin branch who became a homeownership specialist for Baltimore and Maryland, died of cancer Feb. 23 at Gilchrist Care Towson. He was 78.
- Mezcal Inc., a Baltimore-area restaurant owner, has paid nearly half a million dollars in back wages and damages to 62 workers after federal officials say he bilked employees through a phony tip pool.
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- Kushner Cos., the real estate firm that had been led by former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, is selling about half its Baltimore area apartment complexes, including two that sold Thursday for $69.3 million.
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William A. Romberger, insurance adjuster and former owner of Baltimore International Warehouse, dies
William A. “Bill” Romberger Jr., a retired insurance adjuster who earlier had owned the Baltimore International Warehouse, died Feb. 7 of pancreatic cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Hunt Valley resident was 78. - R. David Harden, a Washington consultant who spent years overseas with the U.S. Agency for International Development, is the latest Democrat to announce he will run next year against U.S. Rep. Andy Harris, the sixth-term Republican from Baltimore County.
- Perennial will offer healthy takes on traditional fare when it reopens.
- Lansdowne football has 24 underclassmen on its spring roster, compared to just two seniors.
- Jenny Krush was named the 2021 St. Joseph School Teacher of the Year by the Knights of Columbus Father O’Neill Council.
- Guy T. “Trev” Warfield III, former president of the Warfield Dorsey Co., a Towson insurance brokerage, died Feb. 22. The former longtime Riderwood resident was 91.
- Two former employees at the all-boys Gilman School have been accused of sexually abusing students, according to an investigative report the school commissioned. The report also records instances from the 1950s through 2008 when Gilman officials were apprised of allegations but did not investigate further.
- Federal Election Commission reports show Republican Kim Klacik paid more than $4 million to GOP-oriented digital advertising and media companies to elevate her profile.
- Jim Shea, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott’s nominee to be the city’s next solicitor, is one step closer to being confirmed for the job following a unanimous vote by Baltimore City Council’s Rules and Government Oversight Committee on Thursday.
- Former Laurel Police Chief David Crawford was ordered held without bail Thursday after being charged with committing a multi-year series of arsons across the region, targeting an enemies list including his replacement as police chief and his stepson.
- Not only did the Old Dominion commit lead the game in scoring, but he poured in 14 of his 21 points in the first quarter alone.
