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Orioles’ Sig Mejdal, Ravens’ Eric DeCosta team up as champions of analytics and longtime friends
The relationship between the Orioles' Sig Mejdal and the Ravens' Eric DeCosta means Baltimore’s top professional sports front offices are connected in as modern a way as possible.
Funeral held for family killed by carbon monoxide poisoning
The images were as overwhelming as the tragedy that stunned this Maryland town. Eight white coffins lined up in an auditorium, their lids open to reveal the bodies of eight victims, arranged from the youngest, a 6-year-old girl on the right, to the...
River Hill student posts death threat on social media against Howard superintendent about redistricting
A 15-year-old sophomore at River Hill High School posted a death threat targeting schools Superintendent Michael Martirano, Howard County police confirmed Tuesday afternoon.
Cat-like creature spotted in Sykesville was a bobcat, DNR says
A large feline captured on a trail camera in Eldersburg was probably a bobcat, according to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
Ric Ocasek spent his early years in Baltimore. Then he came back for ‘Hairspray.’
Like Frank Zappa and Cass Elliot before him, Ric Ocasek achieved his fame after leaving his hometown of Baltimore.
Carroll County prayer lawsuit about respecting rights of all
The lawsuit I filed against Carroll County commissioners for opening their meetings with a Christian prayer has nothing to do with politics or personal sentiments against those involved.
Baltimore’s Pratt Central Library emerges from renovation with its beauties intact
The Central Enoch Pratt Free Library emerges with its beauties intact from a $115 million renovation.
Baltimore County driver pleads guilty in 2018 deaths of 5-year-old and her grandmother
The state wants Callie Noble Schwarzman to serve 10 years in prison after police said she fatally struck two people in 2018.
At Baltimore retreat, Pence goes where Trump did not, extends olive branch to U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings
Vice President Mike Pence urged U.S. House Republicans in Baltimore on Friday to “make it clear” that the GOP is prepared to work with Democrats — including Elijah Cummings, the Baltimore congressman sharply and repeatedly criticized by President...
Cheers inside, jeers outside as Trump makes quick visit to Baltimore for GOP retreat
Leaving outside protesters who loudly and sometimes profanely rebuked his characterization of Baltimore as “disgusting" and "rodent infested,” President Donald Trump gave a rambling, jokey speech Thursday night to a friendlier crowd of House...
Civil rights author cheers public launch of new commission on Maryland’s lynching history
NAACP lawyer-activist Sherrilyn Ifill helps introduce the newly created commission on Maryland's lynching history at the University of Baltimore.
UMD’s five-year football review
Let’s do a five-year review for UMD football – how is the transition going?
Coalition of Maryland HBCUs seeks $577 million to drop lawsuit, avoid ‘litigating for the next 10 years’
A coalition advocating for Maryland’s four historically black universities is sending a letter to elected officials offering to settle its 13-year-old lawsuit.
Large explosion heard near U.S. Embassy in Kabul on 9/11 anniversary
A large explosion rocked Afghanistan's capital near the U.S. Embassy in the early hours of Wednesday on the anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the United States.
The ‘seatbelt’ approach to the opioid crisis
In the 1960s, the U.S. government began requiring that cars include seatbelts. Imagine if America approached its overdose crisis the same way.
At vigil for transgender teen killed in Baltimore, LGBTQ community stresses unity in face of violence
Bailey Reeves, a rising high school senior who was one of at least 17 transgender people killed this year, was remembered Friday in a somber ceremony in Baltimore.
In Howard County, a ‘courageous’ plan to redraw school boundaries tests community’s commitment to diversity
Howard County's convictions are being tested by a proposal that seeks to redistribute some 7,400 of the school system’s 58,000 children to different schools — in part to address socioeconomic segregation that leaves children from poor families...
For first time in decades, most Baltimore rec centers now open on Saturdays
According to the city, this weekend marks the first time most Baltimore City-operated rec centers have operated on Saturdays since the 1970s.
Police officers on Baltimore’s tainted Gun Trace Task Force are locked up. But the lawsuits keep pouring in.
More than a year after federal prosecutors convicted eight Baltimore police officers on sweeping corruption charges, the city is facing a wave of new litigation.
State’s Attorney Mosby will ask courts to toss nearly 800 cases tainted by rogue Gun Trace Task Force cops
Baltimore prosecutors have spent more than a year reviewing thousands of arrests by the rogue Gun Trace Task Force and are preparing to ask the courts to throw out nearly 800 tainted cases.