basilica of the assumption

Baltimore's 200-year-old Basilica of the assumption will be closed to most visitors over eight months to repair recently discovered earthquake damage.

A Catholic bishop who has been at the forefront of fighting the Obama administration's contraception policy will lead the Archdiocese of Baltimore and replace Cardinal Edwin O'Brien.

James Edward O'Meara Jr., founder of a commercial construction company and World War II veteran, died Saturday of heart failure at his Glyndon home. He was 90.

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The Towson toilet bomb case came to an end Thursday when Duane Gerald Davis Sr. was found not guilty of leaving a phony destructive device in front of a courthouse.

Baltimore Symphony opens fall season with musical salutes to 'revolutionary women'

Marian Shriver McSherry, long-time partaker in Maryland's Catholic aristocracy and mother of 12 children, died on July 24 of breast cancer at her home in Frederick, Md. She was 85.

Marian Shriver McSherry, long-time partaker in Maryland's Catholic aristocracy and mother of 12 children, died on July 24 of breast cancer at her home in Frederick, Md. She was 85.

Hundreds of Marylanders — hands on their hearts, crisply saluting or wiping away tears — lined streets and gathered at landmarks to bid personal farewells to William Donald Schaefer

From Faidley's at Lexington Market to the Washington Monument, from Camden Yards to the Inner Harbor, a motorcade will ferry the body of William Donald Schaefer Monday afternoon on a two-hour farewell trip through the hometown that he loved and led.