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JohnH. Davis Jr., a retired News American advertising executive, died Friday from complications of pneumonia at his Towson home. He was 93.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

May 17, 2018

How to get to the 143rd Preakness Stakes by car, bus, train and more.

By Sarah Meehan

May 16, 2018

David V. Brant, a retired book editor and avid reader, died FridayMAY04 from heart failure at his Columbia home. He was 80.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

May 9, 2018

Ray Glasgow III's life was cut short Saturday when he was shot to death near his middle school in Southeast Baltimore — the 95th victim of violence in the city this year.

John M. "Jack" Holmes, who as an Army Air Corps crewman flew secret missions in Europe during World War II and later became a Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. engineer, died April 22 in his sleep at his Parkville home. He was 95.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

May 4, 2018

Fewer Maryland students are expected to leave their classrooms Friday morning for the second national school walkout against gun violence.

By Talia Richman

Apr 20, 2018

Students from Dulaney High and St. Joseph School entered projects with difficult-to-understand names, but potentially lasting impact.

A man has died after a West Baltimore fire that also killed his mother last month.

By Christina Tkacik

Apr 3, 2018

Students from Baltimore Polytechnic Institute led a large crowd that stretched through blocks of downtown, through the Inner Harbor, for a local version of the national March For Our Lives protest Saturday.

By Jessica Anderson

Mar 24, 2018

Thousands of students across Maryland gathered in the nation's capital for a school safety and anti-gun violence rally expected to draw 500,000.

Maryland students are marching not just in honor of the 17 students, teachers and other staff killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during a school shooting last month, but also for the two students who were shot and injured by a classmate, who died, Tuesday at Great Mills High School.

Alfred J. Zang, who oversaw more than 80 construction projects across the region from the former Baltimore Arena to Morgan State University, died Thursday at Glen Meadows Retirement Community. He was 90.

By Yvonne Wenger

Mar 18, 2018

George P. Korb, a World War II B-17 navigator and prisoner of war who later owned and operated a Baltimore roofing company, died March 5 from liver failure at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 95.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Mar 14, 2018

Students at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute poured out the back doors of the school and onto the football field just before 10 a.m. Wednesday, joining with thousands of students in Maryland and across the nation in a coordinated effort.

By Talia Richman

Mar 14, 2018

World War II veteran landed at Normandy

By Jacques Kelly

Mar 13, 2018

Robert Joseph Neubauer, a retired attorney, died Feb. 26 at the Charlestown Retirement Community in Catonsville of coronary artery disease. The former Ellicott City and Ocean Pines resident was 97.

By Jacques Kelly

Mar 3, 2018

Jacques Kelly describes the bank failures that followed the 1929 Stock market crash

By Jacques Kelly

Feb 24, 2018

Richard L. Elliott Jr., an electrical engineer who was the manager of the engineering department at the old Maryland Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., died Jan. 22 from from complications of an infection at his Belvedere Square home. He was 93.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Jan 30, 2018

Had Republican views on immigration prevailed a century ago, people like my parents could never have escaped the Nazis.

Baltimore Polytechnic Institute students are among many across Maryland that are growing fish and plants in school-based aquaculture programs.

Thomas Saunders was the former head of the city's rumor control office and led tours of African-American sites throughout the city.

By Jacques Kelly

Jan 16, 2018

Eight Baltimore City schools were closed as of 10 a.m. Monday despite intense efforts over the weekend to fix broken pipes and non-functioning heating systems to ensure classrooms were heated after numerous schools were closed last week because of heating and plumbing problems.

The 335th homicide of 2017 in Baltimore city is not just a statistic, he is a person. He is a son, a brother, a friend, a student. And while we mourn his loss, as a city we also must learn from it. Jonathan Tobash deserves that much; we all do.

The Baltimore Teachers Union is urging the city to close down all schools until officials get a handle on heating problems that have already closed some buildings and left children shivering in others.

Robert D. Cardwell Jr., an accomplished pilot and retired Air Force brigadier general, died Dec. 23 at his Bel Air home from complications from cancer and Parkinson’s Disease. He was 82.

By Pamela Wood

Dec 30, 2017

Baltimore Police believe two two unknown suspects attempted to rob 19-year old Jonathan Tobash before fatally shooting him.

By Talia Richman

Dec 27, 2017

Jonathan “Johnny” Tobash, a 19-year-old Baltimore native, Poly graduate and thriving sophomore engineering student at Morgan State University, was always a “go getter” with big dreams. His family knew he was bound for greatness. Then he was fatally shot in a robbery gone wrong in Baltimore.

By Kevin Rector

Dec 21, 2017

John Atkinson, McCormick employee, known as Mr. Foodshow, dies

By Jacques Kelly

Dec 5, 2017

An estimated record crowd of 15,000 flocked to the city’s largest holiday parade Sunday for a chance to see Santa Claus on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle; Mayor Catherine E. Pugh and other elected officials; marching bands; dancers and giant cartoon balloons.

By Colin Campbell

Dec 3, 2017

The remains of Air Force Major General Alfred J. “Buddy” Stewart, a 1977 graduate of Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, will be interred during a Veterans Day program Saturday.

Lights Out Baltimore aims to rescue birds that have flown into buildings, advocates for owners to turn down lights that may disrupt migratory patterns.

By Christina Tkacik

Nov 9, 2017

For some, Jacey Lee's playtime was less important than the fact that there was a girl on the Poly Engineers varsity football team at all.

By Talia Richman

Nov 4, 2017

When 16-year-old Jacey Lee runs out at M&T Bank stadium Saturday for the noon varsity game, school officials say it will mark the first time a girl takes the field in the storied Poly-City rivalry.

By Talia Richman

Nov 3, 2017

The Kirwan Commission has a rare chance — and responsibility — to make sure that the $1.3 billion dollar enterprise that is our school system is well run. And if it isn’t, members must ensure there is a price to pay by someone other than our kids.

The 25-person commission was formed to

The lab, conceived of and built by students, is the first-of-its-kind in the city,

By Talia Richman

Oct 5, 2017

Baltimore expands speed and red light camera system

By Luke Broadwater

Sep 25, 2017

Live Baltimore will host a homebuying event Saturday, offering a total of $150,000 in incentives.

By Meghan Pryce

Sep 18, 2017

Local schools raise awareness, alternate schedules, add time between classes for locker visits and use more online textbooks to help lighten students' backpacks.

The artist Bruce Bowersock, who died July 20 at age 79, was a Towson native

By Mary Carole McCauley

Sep 4, 2017

William Downes, who helped found the prominent Baltimore insurance firm Riggs, Counselman, Michaels and Downes, died August 7 of pneumonia at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson.

By Carrie Wells

Aug 13, 2017

A group of Park School students is headed to the Arctic for climate change research.

By Scott Dance

Aug 4, 2017

Revived Baltimore speed camera system to begin issuing $40 fines Monday

By Luke Broadwater

Jul 26, 2017

Who is Lou Catelli? The Hampden man beyond the short shorts and trike

By Brittany Britto

Jul 20, 2017

The mother of Aaron Laciny, the 20-year-old cyclist killed by a hit-and-run driver in Baltimore county, speaks out about her son, a talented mathmetician who was just finding his stride after a turbulent childhood. She hopes a reward and memorial ride will keep the focus on his death and help police locate the driver.

By Jean Marbella

Jul 11, 2017

Jazz enthusiast Leon Galitzin dies

By Jacques Kelly

Jul 7, 2017

A group of Baltimore teachers is getting a crash course in the Chesapeake Bay's challenges and its ecological recovery through a program aimed at improving students' environmental literacy.

By Scott Dance

Jun 28, 2017

Jeffrey B. Smith, 90, a retired Baltimore trial attorney and a former partner of the old law firm of Smith, Somerville and Case, died June 17 from Alzhemier's disease at the Fairhaven retirement community in Sykesville.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Jun 26, 2017

When Baltimore turns on a new set of speed cameras on Monday, it will operate under new laws that officials say will make the system more reliable and less prone to errors than an old one that had to be shut down.

By Ian Duncan

Jun 23, 2017

Baltimore will begin testing its new speed cameras on Monday, the city transportation department said Thursday. No fines will be issued for the first thirty days that the cameras are in operation but drivers will receive a warning in the mail.

By Ian Duncan

Jun 22, 2017