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Dan Rodricks disparages Baltimore County Trump supporters as poorly educated and economically anxious

Anne Arundel County native Vince Vaise — best known by his fans as the ever-enthusiastic "Ranger Vince" — may no longer officially work in Baltimore after 27 years, but he can't stay away.

There was Enoch Pratt, the 19th-century businessman who established Baltimore's library system, laid to rest beneath a sandy brown obelisk.

By Joe Burris

Oct 25, 2014

June Wing, a political, social and environmentalist activist, died Tuesday at her Guilford home of respiratory failure. She was 98.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Oct 18, 2014

On Sept. 30, each of the Maryland Food Bank's three facilities, representatives from the Maryland State Police and the Maryland Department of Transportation joined food bank executives in welcoming a donation of 33,405 pounds of donated food.

Baltimore's National Great Blacks in Wax Museum moves forward slowly, but steadily with plans for a $75 million expansion that would quadruple its footprint, erecting a new state-of-the art institution in one of the city's more challenged communities.

By Natalie Sherman

Oct 14, 2014

Baltimore's free downtown bus system has proven appeal but expanding its routes or adding a $1 fare might be its undoing

Rec sports submissions for Howard County for the week of Oct. 9

USA Swimming has suspended Michael Phelps from competition for six months and removed him from its 2015 World Championship team in response to the record-setting Olympian¿s drunken-driving arrest in Baltimore last week.

Caught drunk driving a second time, Phelps might yet find a measure of redemption by joining the crusade for mandatory ignition interlock

At at time when Baltimore needs its sports heroes, Michael Phelps is latest to let city down

By Peter Schmuck

Sep 30, 2014

John "Jack" M.E. Hasslinger Jr., an accountant who managed a well-known family seafood business, died of heart disease Tuesday at his Mount Airy home. He was 63.

'Finery & Finish, Embellishments on Baltimore Federal Furniture' lets viewers get one-on-one with early-1800s pieces.

Volunteer at Fort McHenry will portray Baltimore resident during War of 1812

Francis Scott Key's poem was set to a drinking song, not a hymn so a bit of Orioles cheer is hardly sacrilegious

A celebration sans 'tall ships' or Blue Angels?

I traveled back to my hometown of Baltimore last weekend to reprise my role as that important historical figure, The Devil, in a rock opera about the Battle of Baltimore. This was the long-anticipated bicentennial performance of "1814!: The War of 1812 Rock Opera." General Smith had just driven the despot's heel offstage when the Baltimore City Police cut our mikes off and turned the lights up. We'd started late and gone 15 minutes over the time allotted by permit to use the park. It seemed

Strict security in Baltimore during Star-Spangled Celebration suggests Americans are too fearful of a terrorist attack

More than 6,600 Maryland students, teachers and chaperones – including about 200 from Ebb Valley Elementary – donned red, white and blue ponchos Sept. 9 as part of the largest 15 stars and 15 stripes Star-Spangled Banner Living Flag ever assembled at Fort McHenry National Monument and Historical Shrine in Baltimore.

We wonder, how many of us remember that before Baltimore on the Patapsco existed, there was a Baltimore Town right her in our part of Harford County, the Aberdeen Proving Ground to be exact. Old Baltimore was actually the county seat of Baltimore County for a few years, when Harford County was part of Baltimore County

Now that Baltimore has celebrated the National Anthem, perhaps we can stop desecrating it at Orioles games.

Thoughts on the life of Francis Scott Key

Maryland Public Television salutes all who helped make Baltimore spectacular for one weekend

Leading mobile service providers AT&T and Verizon said they saw significant increases in data usage in and around Fort McHenry and the Inner Harbor over the weekend.

Bidding at Boston auction house for 3-inch square fragments began at $10,000

Exploding cannon fire lit the sky and reflected off the water as rain poured down on American soldiers struggling to defend Fort McHenry against a British attack. It was September 1814 and during what's now known as the Battle of Baltimore, Francis Scott Key penned the work that became out national anthem, "Star Spangled Banner." It's been the job of Annapolis-based artist Greg Harlin to bring that scene to life ... on a postage stamp.

Down, 2-1, in the bottom of the ninth after Darren O'Day served up a homer to Brian McCann in the top of the inning, the Orioles rallied with two runs on three doubles against Yankees closer David Robertson.

One of the main events in the national anthem bicentennial, the Star-Spangled Spectacular, broadcast on PBS, featured Baltimore Symphony Kenny Rogers, Smokey Robinson and more.

The Baltimore Running Festival consistently generates about $40 million in economic impact each year, according to official estimates, and at its peak, the Grand Prix of Baltimore pumped $47 million into area hotels, restaurants and stores. But city officials say this week's Star-Spangled Spectacular — which marks 200 years since troops in Baltimore beat back a British invasion in 1814 — could surpass all those totals.

The 200-year-old national anthem still speaks to a nation's character and ability to overcome adversity, a message with great relevance today

The gunners at Fort McHenry readied the cannon known as Messenger, heaving it into position behind a wooden wall with a block-and-rope pulley system and loading it with gunpowder and a substitute cannonball of peat moss. Saturday's re-enactment at Fort McHenry, complete with soldiers, sailors and citizens dressed as they would have in 1814, was part of the "Living History" events for the Star Spangled Spectacular bicentennial celebration of the national anthem.

Meet Mrs. and Mrs. Francis Scott Key, in reality both unmarried, who have been portraying the Star-Spagled Banner writer and his wife for some 20 years at functions ranging from battle re-creations to Under Armour annual meetings. This week, they are participating in Sailabration.

Few political events in Iowa are more important to an aspiring Democratic presidential candidate than the Harkin Steak Fry. And this year's fundraiser — the 37th and final for retiring Sen. Tom Harkin — is drawing some of its biggest names yet, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

Many who are flocking to the Star-Spangled Spectacular's main venues remember all too well what the Battle of Baltimore was about and why we should remember it.

President Barack Obama laid out a sobering view of the international crises that have beset his administration this year — and tried to make the case for returning Democrats to the Senate majority — at a small gathering of political donors in Baltimore on Friday.

Drivers were advised to avoid the southbound lanes of Interstate 95 near the Fort McHenry Tunnel late Friday as President Barack Obama arrived to tour Fort McHenry.

To celebrate the bicentennial anniversary of the War of 1812, fifth-graders at Runnymede Elementary School reenact the tale, which birthed the national anthem.

Sue North wrote me about the Havre de Grace United Methodist Church's 4th annual blessing of the animals and pet expo Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. in Tydings Park in Havre de Grace. Free admission; pets must be leashed; other activities. Phone Tammy, 410-939-6105, for details or vendor spaces.

Amid festive celebrations marking the weeklong 200th anniversary of the Star-Spangled Banner, Maryland's leaders are hammering home the point that if it weren't for Baltimore, American history might have turned out much differently.

Residents of Federal Hill and Locust Point say they've grown used to the gridlocked traffic, elusive parking and other effects that come with the big weekend events in their neighborhood. Many say it's a small price to pay for their front-row seats to the festivities.

Maryland's governor reflects on what the defense of the city against the British said about our national character then — and today.