trips and vacations
- The amazing adventures of Jason Bostron and his wife Daisy Phillips. What a team this duo makes as they bicycle from Alaska to Argentina.
- Louise Mullan Flanigan, who owned and operated the Ambassador Gift Shop for six decades in a landmark Tuscany-Canterbury apartment house her father built, died Saturday in her sleep of undetermined causes at the Blakehurst Retirement Community.
- With veterans health care services in the forefront of the news, I am reminded of my recent sighting of an unusually decorated car driving in front of me on Route 32 as I approached Route 198, near Fort Meade. The car had lettering all over it, posters and American flags flying. I got close enough to read at least two of its messages: "I am driving to 49 U.S. states." and "Veteran Awareness Mission."
- This wedding featured a pop of peacock and a little 'Disco Inferno'
- Mays Chapel University of Maryland college student going on medical mission to Guatemala with A Broader View service organization. Roger Lin said he is passionate about combining is interests in medicine and Hispanics and the service trip perfectly fits that bill.
- Rock group's 8th studio album and first since 2011, hits stores on Tuesday
- "Ping Pong Summer" envisions a time when a kid's biggest worry was showing off at the local arcade, when a beach-side cookout with your weird relatives could become the stuff of family legend, when friends were all that really mattered and appearing cool was the toughest challenge a guy could face.
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- The Orioles ended their three-city, 10-game road trip with one of their most bizarre games of the season on Thursday night.
- Harford County's fifth annual Restaurant Week started Monday and will run through June 14, offering all kinds of valuable dining experiences around the county at a fraction of the normal cost.
- Orioles outfield prospect Dariel Alvarez has used his bat speed to mash Double-A pitching for Bowie
- Through her autobiographies, poems, essays, lectures and work in front and behind the camera, as well as on stage, Angelou touched generations. Her poignant writings about her own pains, challenges and triumphs; and issues involving civil rights, poverty and racial and social injustices, were brutally honest and on point. But they were done with a finesse that pulled the reader or listener in and left them, if not with a sense of hope for the future, with at least something to think about..
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- Gov. Martin O'Malley, who is considering a run for president in 2016, will return to Iowa next month to give the keynote address at the state's Democratic party convention.
- The bride's love for water led to a nautical-themed celebration at the Baltimore Museum of Industry
- Even though he threw 18 pitches, Orioles left-hander Zach Britton pitched a perfect ninth inning to pick up his second save of the season in the club's 4-2 win over the Cleveland Indians on Sunday.
- Although it was just a late May game against a team outside the American League East division, the Orioles' 4-2 victory over the Cleveland Indians on Sunday afternoon had the feel of a game they just couldn't afford to lose.