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The FBI announced that Roger Taylor, aka "Milk" of the Baltimore gang "Trained to Go," was arrested in the Dominican Republic on racketeering charges.

By Phil Davis

Jul 3, 2019

A new signing period for international amateur free agents began Tuesday with the Orioles making their most significant early outlay on July 2.

By Jon Meoli

Jul 2, 2019

Dr. Joseph Baptiste, a dentist in Fulton in Howard County in Maryland, is one of two men who were convicted in a Boston federal court Thursday.

By Jonathan M. Pitts

Jun 21, 2019

What we know about the Americans have died in their rooms at Dominican Republic resorts under somewhat mysterious circumstances since the start of the year.

Edward Nathaniel Holmes and Cynthia Ann Day appeared to have suffered respiratory failure while on vacation in the Dominican Republic.

Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora said on Monday that his decision to skip his team's White House visit this Thursday was made "with conviction" in protest of the Trump administration's handling of the hurricane relief in his native Puerto Rico.

By Peter Schmuck

May 6, 2019

Democratic trip to Puerto Rico was really nothing more than a "junket," says Cal Thomas.

With the announcement of Wednesday's agreement that will allow Cuban players to safely come to the United States to play baseball in the same manner that professionals from South Korea and Japan can, the Orioles will have an even wider talent base to sift through.

By Jon Meoli

Dec 20, 2018

The Tutoring Art organization will be hosting two art workshops to raise funds for the Thrivent Builds Habitat for Humanity International that will be traveling to the Dominican Republic this Nov. 10 to build or finish homes for many families in that country.

Hayleen Reyes moved to Baltimore from the Dominican Republican five months ago in search of a better life. But on Thursday morning, the 21-year-old was among three workers who were shot and killed.

By Jessica Anderson

Sep 21, 2018

After Hurricane Maria hit, authorities began flying kidney patients in Vieques to the Puerto Rican mainland. The storm had ruined the only dialysis center on this tiny island; without treatment, the patients would die.

An estimates 200,000 residents of Puerto Rico have left the American territory in the year since the Category 4 Maria devastated the island. A dozen found work at Horseshoe Casino Baltimore.

By Jeff Barker

Sep 20, 2018

Consistent with his endless self-praise for his performance in office, President Donald Trump chose the arrival of Hurricane Florence as the occasion to give himself "an A-plus" in last year's Hurricane Maria assault on Puerto Rico.

Now that top Cuban prospect Victor Victor Mesa and his younger brother, Victor Mesa Jr., have been declared free agents by Major League Baseball, the Orioles plan to pursue both players aggressively, according to an industry source.

By Eduardo A. Encina

Sep 14, 2018

A long-time Hopkins researcher finds the estimates of death from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico to be sound, based on a method he has employed in war zones.

By Dan Rodricks

Sep 14, 2018

So it turns out that Puerto Rico, like everything else, is nothing but a stage set for President Donald Trump's narcissism.

Trump's rosy view of Hurricane Maria does a 'heckuva job' callously rewriting Puerto Rico's tragedy into farce.

FEMA wisely admits its failures in Puerto Rico, but will the 2018 hurricane season take the U.S. by surprise again?

Twelve people on a youth mission trip sponsored by the Archdiocese of Baltimore have arrived back in the U.S. after violent protests in Haiti delayed their return.

UMBC incoming freshman guard Jose Placer (Orlando, Fla./Master's Academy) is competing for Puerto Rico in the FIBA Under-18 Americas Championships in St. Catherines, Ontario.

Ricardo Rowe will talk about his autobiography and his foundation at an author salon from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. April 12 at the Central Branch Library, 10375 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. Preregistration: hclibrary.org or 410-313-7800.

Maria M. Cumming, a retired Loyola University Maryland Spanish teacher, died March 20 from complications of a stroke at Stella Maris Hospice. The Timonium resident was 86.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Apr 2, 2018

University of Connecticut political scientist Charles Venator-Santiago offers a deeper history of the misunderstood Jones Act and how it effectively made Puerto Ricans into U.S. citizens, but kept Puerto Rico and the people who lived there a second-class place.

The 5-foot-8 guard was named the America East Conference's shortest-ever Defensive Player of the Year,

By Jonas Shaffer

Mar 9, 2018

A crew of Baltimore Gas & Electric workers left Maryland on Saturday morning to join restoration efforts in Puerto Rico, where hundreds of thousands of people remain without power.

By Alison Knezevich

Feb 17, 2018

Governor Hogan's decisions regarding Baltimore funding suggest he views the city as Donald Trump does Haiti and Africa.

St. Mary of the Mills Catholic Church is hosting a Brides of Haiti fundraising bridal sale on Jan. 27. The church is hosting it along with St. Mary's Catholic Church and Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Barnesville.

Isabel Sainz, a political refugee from Cuba who became a devoted special-education teacher in Baltimore County, one who would bring her students to restaurants and shops and encourage them to participate in society, died Thursday of Alzheimer’s disease at her home in Towson. She was 81.

By Tim Prudente

Jan 14, 2018

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh said she was appalled by President Donald Trump’s recent comments, in which he reportedly used a slur to describe immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African nations.

By Talia Richman

Jan 12, 2018

With no power, no water, no work and no school, Puerto Ricans ask themselves whether they should they join the more than 100,000 people who have already left the island or stay and begin to rebuild.

In a Giving Tuesday essay, David Weeks of Build Haiti Foundation and a teacher at Glenelg Country School, writes about a school in Camp Coq, Haiti, that could use donations toward tuition for village students.

Advocates for immigrants say they will ask Congress to grant permanent residence to the nearly 60,000 Haitians who are living in the United States under temporary protection that the Trump administration announced will expire in July 2019.

By Colin Campbell

Nov 21, 2017

My name is Sariela Bordner. I am a military wife, mom of 3, Boy Scout Den Leader, Girl Scout Leader and teacher. I currently live in Bel Air, but was born in Puerto Rico. 

By Erika Butler

Nov 9, 2017

Seeing so many people gathering supplies and donating money, time, and energy to helping Puerto Rico, which was devastated by Hurricane Maria, has been...

Gov. Larry Hogan said Monday he had directed 100 Maryland National Guardsmen to head for the U.S. Virgin Islands to help with hurricane relief efforts.

By Ian Duncan

Oct 23, 2017

Meltdown DIY Art Studio is joining 24 other art studios Tuesday evening to host a Paint for Puerto Rico night.

We must help our fellow citizens in Puerto Rico and demand that Congress make restitution for their shameful, far-reaching dereliction of duty.

Now is a slow time for utility crews as our storm season comes to an end and winter snows and ice are still a few months off.

President Trump often reassures his trusting crowds with the words "Believe me." Will the Puerto Ricans do so, as they remain in the dire aftermath throes of Maria?

Trump reinvents time with Puerto Rico storm damage - or how 'every step of the way' just ran out of steps.

How do you solve a problem like Hurricane Maria?

Maryland SPCA cares for 20 dogs rescued from hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico

By Mary Carole McCauley

Oct 10, 2017

Donald Trump and others in the GOP have perfected fake sincerity, says Jules Witcover.

Four Retrievers and three Tigers are from Puerto Rico, which was ravaged by Maria.

By Jonas Shaffer

Oct 6, 2017

Johns Hopkins is among universities and other groups open-source mapping Puerto Rico to help aid organizations reach victims of Hurricane Maria

By Jean Marbella

Oct 5, 2017

Open Forum letter about the post-storm situation in Puerto Rico and how San Juan's mayor has been "clueless."

Nosing into the decorative white-painted wooden walls and peering inside Puerto Rican artist Eric Rivera Barbeito's piece titled 'Gracias,' a small house

In efforts large and small, Maryland groups raise money and resources for hurricane victims

By Erin Cox

Oct 2, 2017

To call Puerto Rico Trump's Katrina moment is an insult to George W. Bush.

Minnich: In America today, more questions than answers