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Gansler hires broadcaster Wheelock as spokesman

Mirrorball Madness is back, baby! On 'Dancing With the Stars,' they waste no time going straight to the competitive routines after a brief welcome from Tom and Brooke following the opening number.

As the new network season arrives this week, a couple of old familiar Baltimore faces have caught my eye: Andre Braugher and Wendell Pierce.

Mitt Romney was right: Russia is our No. 1 geopolitical foe

Lou Panos, a heralded journalist and author who covered state and national politics during a career that spanned 67 years, died of complications from heart disease at Johns Hopkins Hospital early Sunday.

Concert venues are about the live music experience, but then again, they're not. We were reminded of this on Monday when 9:30 Club spokeswoman Audrey Fix Schaefer confirmed the Washington venue's manager and "face of the Club" Josh Burdette had died over the Labor Day weekend. He was 36.

One of the top television series of the summer of 2013 has a Harford County native among its cast members, an actor who has spent nearly 25 years working with some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry.

The Baltimore Sun recently interviewed Jobson, who is now the president of U.S. Sailing and a member of its Hall of Fame, about this year's America's Cup finals, which begin Saturday in San Francisco. Jobson is serving as a television commentator on NBC.

'Grey's Anatomy' star to drive in American Le Mans Series event Saturday

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Mark P. Becker, Bert J. Hash Jr., Robert "Bobby" Parker and Clark Turner have been announced as the Class of 2013 of the Havre de Grace High School Hall of Fame.

After Nick Symmonds won a silver medal at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow, the American became the first foreign athlete to openly condemn Russia's anti-gay law on Russian soil.

"Breaking Bad," on AMC, is one of the most successful TV shows in recent memory. Sony Pictures Television grows worldwide, expanding channels into 840 million households.

Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. said Wednesday second quarter net income fell 41 percent to $17.8 million, or 19 cents per share, from a net income of $30.1 million, or 37 cents per share in the comparable period a year ago.

Sinclair Broadcast Group is promising TV viewers a first-of-its-kind format in a new cable channel the Hunt Valley broadcaster wants to roll out across the U.S

Teenagers in Maryland and across the country are receiving driver's licenses in fewer numbers than in years past, according to a national study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.

Emile Griffith's remarkable life ended last week with the boxer's death at age 75, but I hope his story of strength, triumph, tragedy and redemption should never leave us.

Jonah Goldberg says national media didn't get the verdict they wanted, so they're going after 'stand your ground' as a consolation prize

Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. plans to create a new cable television news channel with a blend of local and national programming and bring it to cities across the U.S. over the next couple of years, Sinclair CEO David Smith said Tuesday

You have to admire the financial muscle if nothing else of Baltimore's Sinclair Broadcast Group.

Baltimore's Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. announced Monday that it is purchasing eight television stations, primarily in the South.

Alumnus of 'TJ Hooker,' 'The Practice,' 'Boston Legal,' Priceline ads to speak in Hunt Valley

Four Baltimore charities will be highlighted when the series "Secret Millionaire" returns at 8 p.m. Aug. 4 on ABC, according to a press release.

Welcome to "The Men Tell All" episode of Des' dramatic journey to find love. According to Chris Harrison, this was "the best Bachelorette season ever," with the most "shocking event" still yet to come.

Claire Kosloff's job includes writing Stacy Keibler's script on new Lifetime show

It¿s Week 8 of "The Bachelorette" which means time for the hometown dates!

George Zimmerman was found not guilty in the death of Trayvon Martin at 10 p.m. Saturday, and it was a network news operation, ABC, not any of the all-news cable channels, that had the best initial coverage.

Since the Orioles started playing never-say-die comeback baseball the second half of last season, TV viewing has spiked. In 2011, O¿s telecasts on MASN ranked 18th in ratings among the teams in Major League Baseball. So far this season, they rank fifth, and have had an 86 percent jump in ratings since 2011.

Patricia E. Sadowski, a retired Baltimore County public schools reading specialist and music lover, died Sunday from congestive heart failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. She was 76.

JADS International's new Stan Lee Signature Cologne trades on the geek popularity of a comic-book-industry icon, whose creations span the good-evil continuum — from Spider-Man, the Avengers and the X-Men to Loki, Magneto and Doctor Doom.

Chris Cuomo, one of the hosts of "New Day," sounds like someone who has thought a lot about his TV image and what he's getting into as the point man in trying to make mornings matter at CNN.

Cal Thomas writes that sexual misbehavior overseas is tarnishing America's global image.

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With the word Tuesday that "NewsHour" was shutting down offices and laying off employees, it's time to ask the question: just how much of this one-time PBS bedrock is actually left?

During Surfset, riders do squats, planks, lunges and other exercise moves on a surfboard that uses bands and rubber balls to emulate the unsteady waters of the ocean.

A recap of this week's 'The Bachelorette,' as Brooks breaks a finger, Ben breaks ranks and Brian breaks the rules

Edward Joseph Snowden, the government contractor who revealed the National Security Agency's massive telephone- and Internet-surveillance program, has left few public clues about his life growing up in Crofton and Ellicott City

Jacoby Jones has been back cutting and catching balls on the practice fields for the Ravens, a week after he Cha-Cha-ed and waltzed his way to a third-place finish in the latest season of ABC's "Dancing with the Stars."