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Through three major league starts, the Orioles have seen glimpses of David Hess’ promise and also what he’s trying to learn in order to survive big league lineups. Both were on display in the Orioles’ series opener against the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday night at Tropicana Field. Sure, there haven’t...
The defense attorney for disgraced former Baltimore Police Sgt. Wayne Jenkins is asking that he receive 20 years in prison at his sentencing next week. Attorney Steve Levin wrote in a sentencing memorandum filed with the court late Thursday that the leader of the police department’s corrupt Gun...
One seat on the arena floor, among those occupied by the more than 300 members of the C. Milton Wright High School Class of 2018, remained empty during Friday’s commencement ceremony, in honor of their late classmate, Tyler James Pope. Pope, 17, died Aug 28, 2017 in an early-morning single-vehicle...
Keep in mind that it was a non-contact practice and the defense was without many of its top players. Making any conclusions at this time of the year is foolish. But below are a dozen thoughts off of the Ravens’ organized team activity workout Thursday, the first of three open to reporters. 1) It’s...
In the old language of the 1963 Cuban Missile Crisis, President Donald Trump "has just blinked" regarding the planned meeting with North Korea dicatator Kim Jong Un. In President John F. Kennedy's day, a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union was avoided. This time, who knows? The president's withdrawal...
In the hours that have passed since Baltimore County police officer Amy Caprio was killed, details have emerged about her death that have horrified and shocked our community. Dawnta Harris is charged with first-degree murder. If convicted, he faces a mandatory life sentence. We still do not know...
At most any other time in history, it would be perfectly fitting to have the president of the United States address the U.S. Naval Academy’s graduating class. After all, he or she (I can dream) is also the commander in chief and in charge of the armed forces. The president ultimately decides where...
President Donald Trump says a lot of outrageous stuff, like, for example, implying that NFL players who refuse to stand for the national anthem should be kicked out of the country. But the latest rabbit hole he’s dived down is far more serious. The president has spent much of the last week egging...
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As a seventh-grader, Mick Arnold tagged along one summer as his father visited customers of his packaging business. One asked the boy what he wanted to do when he grew up. “I said I’d like to do what my dad does. I’d like to be involved in packaging,” Arnold, now 47 and president of the fourth-generation...
Under Armour may be giving up a contract to outfit all Major League Baseball players to Nike, according to a report Thursday in Sports Business Daily. The report, citing an anonymous source, said Nike and Major League Baseball were close to inking a deal to have the Under Armour archrival take...
Medicare recipients in Maryland should be receiving new Medicare cards designed to increase security and help prevent fraud, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said. The new cards no longer contain social security numbers. Instead, they include randomly assigned Medicare numbers. The...
We're learning an important lesson about cutting-edge voice technology: Amazon's Alexa is always listening. So are Google's Assistant and Apple's Siri. Putting live microphones in our homes has always been an out-there idea. But tech companies successfully marketed talking speakers such as the...
Baltimore scientist and author Mario Livio has so many books crowded onto the shelves of his home near Quarry Lake that the thick white boards sag beneath the weight. And those are just the shelves holding the art books in Livio’s living room. The scenario is repeated in every room in the home...
As the front door of a criminal courtroom opened to usher in Harvey Weinstein, the once-powerful movie mogul looked out at the large gathering of lawyers and reporters and, a dazed expression on his face, mouthed one word: "Wow." Weinstein — in court here Friday to face three felony charges, including...
Jada Pinkett Smith's turbans aren't just an accessory. The 46-year-old actress and Baltimore native revealed on her latest webisode that she's losing her hair, possibly due to alopecia. "It was terrifying when it first started. I was in the shower one day and had just handfuls of hair in my hands...
Nicole Phelps, wife of local Olympian Michael Phelps, is pumping a virtual fist for mommies with a recent post about feeding her babies in public. And the response in mommy circles and from the public at large appears pretty strong. Phelps posted her experience on Instagram two days ago, along...
College has long been a theme in Alejandro Diasgranados’ classroom at Aiton Elementary School in Northeast Washington, D.C. The teacher’s third and fourth graders’ reading groups were named after prestigious universities like Stanford and Johns Hopkins, and the Laurel resident had shared with his...
Before becoming a lauded inventor of one of the most pivotal technological devices of our time, James “Jim” E. West said, his journey started simply — with curiosity. Gadgets with screws or nuts — including his grandfather’s pocket watch — were often endangered because West wanted to learn their...
Excitement was building in Maryland for Robert F. Kennedy’s presidential bid as May 1968 drew to a close. There was even talk that the candidate himself might be visiting. The month had started with great promise, as local supporters basked in RFK’s twin victories in the Indiana and Washington...
President Donald Trump's legal team wants a briefing on the classified information shared with lawmakers about the origins of the FBI investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election and may take it to the Justice Department as part of an effort to scuttle the ongoing special...
Newly released emails show senior Environmental Protection Agency officials collaborating with a conservative group that dismisses climate change to rally like-minded people for public hearings on science and global warming, counter negative news coverage and tout Administrator Scott Pruitt's stewardship...
President Donald Trump reopened the door Friday to a high-stakes summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, a day after aborting the meeting because of what he said was open hostility and nuclear threats from Pyongyang. Trump said it is even possible that a meeting could take place on June 12...
A wave of younger candidates, which swept over the Baltimore City Council two years ago, is now taking aim at the city’s incumbent state senators facing Democratic primary challenges next month. In several competitive state senate races in Baltimore, some younger challengers are leading incumbents...
As a federal deadline looms, a state effort to stabilize Obamacare by creating a fund to help insurers cover the most expensive claims may have hit a snag. The two insurers who sell plans in the state under Obamacare, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield and Kaiser Permanente of the Mid-Atlantic States,...
In suspending Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa on Friday, and then again in accepting his resignation on Tuesday, Mayor Catherine Pugh cited a "downward trend in violence" to applaud his leadership of the department in the months before he was charged with federal crimes of failing...