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Alice Webb's two-dozen watercolor paintings, displayed on the covers of a series of Baltimore Sun hometown guides, make up a new exhibit called "Around the Beltway with The Baltimore Sun" at Howard Community College in Columbia.

Alice Webb's two-dozen watercolor paintings, displayed on the covers of a series of Baltimore Sun hometown guides, make up a new exhibit called "Around the Beltway with The Baltimore Sun" at Howard Community College in Columbia.

The federal judge in Tribune Co.'s long-running bankruptcy case said in a memorandum Friday that he would approve a reorganization plan proposed by the company and its largest creditors, overruling objections brought by numerous parties.

The Patuxent Publishing Company building in Columbia, assessed at $2.77 million, is for sale after 30 years of housing the community newspapers, is for sale

Charter amendments also approved

The Catholic Review, which has chronicled Catholic life in Baltimore in its weekly publication for nearly two centuries, has cut back to biweekly issues.

Jim Shriver will give a talk about Westminster historic "post office on wheels" also known as rural free delivery, at noon, Tuesday, June 12 at the Carroll Post, American Legion, in Westminster.

Not available in Harford County Public Library, 'Shades of Grey' in circulation, and in high demand, in Carroll County Public Library.

Drastic cuts at the New Orleans Times-Picayune upset David Simon, who films his HBO show 'Treme' in the city

Anne Arundel: South River Student Awarded Scholarship

The coming of the Internet Age dramatically changed the world of criticism

Publisher Tim Ryan thanks readers, advertisers and staff

Sports columnist Ken Rosenthal discusses a moment that wrote itself

David Simon talks about his proudest moment as a newspaperman, and working with David Ettlin.

Jack W. Germond reflects on his time as The Sun's political columnist

Russell Baker discusses his time as the London correspondent

Gwen Ifill recalls the thrill of Page 1 — and the rivals on the other side of the room

Prone to error, conscientious about correction.

Plain-spoken but visionary, Arunah S. Abell got his paper, the Baltimore Sun, off to a smashing start.

Sometimes The Sun and its reporters became the story.

The problem with 'scientific' explanations for political leanings

Award-winning Carroll County photojournalist, fine art photographer and author Phil Grout will appear for the opening of his latest exhibition Friday, May 4, at Off Track Art in Westminster.

Joseph A. DiPaola Jr., an award-winning Baltimore Sun photographer whose 1962 picture of the nose-to-nose Preakness finish resulted in the suspension of a jockey who claimed foul, died Friday of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson. He was 91.

Retired Catholic Relief Services program director worked in communications and had volunteered in Africa

Members of the news, editorial, sports, photography and web design staffs of The Aegis, The Record and APG News received 37 awards in the 2011 Maryland, Delaware, D.C. Press Association's Editorial Contest. In addition to individual and team awards, The Aegis was named Newspaper of the Year among the association's non-daily newspapers with a circulation of more than 20,000.

Lou Panos, 86, who was inducted last week into the Maryland/Delaware/DC Press Association's Hall of Fame, cranked out articles, editorials and columns for the Associated Press for 20 years and later for the Baltimore Sun and the Patuxent Publishing Company newspapers, including the Towson Times.

The Laurel Leader won five awards, including two first-place awards, in the Maryland, Delaware, D.C. Press Association's 2011 editorial contest.

Howard County Times honored by MDDC Press Association

Thumb drive with Under Armour payroll data lost in U.S. mail, Ohio newspaper report says.

The Baltimore Sun on Friday was named newspaper of the year — and recognized as having the best website among the competitors — in the annual Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association awards contest.

Using off-the-shelf electronics, Thomas Smith, a 2011 Hopkins graduate, built Gado, a swiveling, motorized robot arm with a nozzle that uses vacuum suction to "grab" photos and place them on a scanner. It can take digital snapshots of the front and back of a new photo every 42 seconds — and these images are steadily being made available online with the Afro's digital article archive.

John Maxtone-Graham who is considered the dean of Transatlantic liner historians explores in his new book some fascinating new components of the age-old Titanic Story

Bert Sugar is remembered for wearing his fedora, chomping on his cigar and churning out story after wonderful story about boxing. But Sugar was a baseball historian as well. He had a great perspective on the game.

About Chris Korman

The Baltimore Jewish Times, whose parent company's assets were order liquidated by a bankruptcy judge on Friday, will be in mailboxes and on newsstands next Friday, the publisher said Saturday.

Alice C. Steinbach, an award-winning Baltimore Sun feature writer and columnist who won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for her account of a 10-year-old boy, died Tuesday evening of cancer at her Roland Park Place home. She was 78.

Walter Focke Herman, the former real estate editor of the old News American who had earlier been a Baltimore Sun sports writer, died of multiple organ failure March 2 at Keswick Multi-Care Center. The Roland Park resident was 85.

The General Assembly has started broadcasting its committee hearings, but it isn't broadcasting committee votes, robbing constituents of a chance to evaluate how well they are being represented.

Misunderstanding copy editing

Maryland: Loh says AD has 'unqualified support'

Howard County: Image Award Nomination for Howard Teacher

Journalism's hack vocabulary

Sun staff writer Kevin Van Valkenburg thanks Sun readers as he heads off to ESPN

The Frederick News-Post plans to revive its Monday edition, suspended nearly three years ago in a cost-cutting move, and return next month to seven-day publication, the newspaper announced Wednesday.