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Nearly four months ago, the container ship Dali lost power and crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, decimating it and killing six construction workers. Crews have since removed tens of thousands of tons wreckage from the Patapsco River and fully reopened the shipping channel in June. But there’s more activity on the horizon. In…

Cheers, celebration and infectious joy were spreading all around on day one of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Nearly every big name in Republican politics, from Donald Trump to Tucker Carlson, along with a wide range of high-ranking, elected Republicans and leaders of influential conservative organizations, was in attendance. “I’m…

BY HALELUYA HADERO AND CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It’s summertime, and the bargains seem easy at a time when many consumer prices are high. July sales events have become a seasonal revenue driver for the retail industry since Amazon launched its first Prime Day back in 2015. While consumers may be…

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This letter is in response to Dan Rodricks’ recent column regarding the five members of the Harford County Board of Education voting to scrap the AP African American Studies course (“Dan Rodricks: A tweak to the history of redlining in Baltimore and other cities,” July 11). To me, this is just another example of the…

Former President Donald Trump told The Washington Examiner that he has rewritten the speech he was set to deliver at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Thursday after being the target of an attempted assassination at his rally Saturday. In the interview, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee says he will now call for a new effort…

A young man armed with a gun fires multiple shots at a popular but controversial presidential candidate during a campaign appearance. If that description sounds familiar, particularly to Marylanders, it applies not just to Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania, but to Monday, May 15, 1972, in Laurel, Maryland. On that day 52 years…

By DEL QUENTIN WILBER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The would-be assassin got off six shots in 1.7 seconds, nearly taking the life of a president and changing the trajectory of a presidency. It happened on a dreary March afternoon in 1981. President Ronald Reagan was leaving the Washington Hilton hotel after giving a speech…

Last month, Carroll officials joined 1,500 municipal officials from throughout the state in Ocean City for the 75th annual Maryland Municipal League leadership conference, featuring four days of workshops, seminars, presentations, networking, and training. One of the featured presentations on June 25 at the MML statewide training conference was a discussion on Westminster’s water reuse initiative,…

For 15 weeks in 1910 the Union Bridge Pilot newspaper published a series of “Reminiscences” written by James Lebbius Switzer. Switzer was born there in 1837 and his family was related to almost everyone in the village. He was about 20 when the family moved to Iowa. Writing from his home in Missouri more than…

Ryan Faughnder | Los Angeles Times (TNS) Remember the metaverse? It was just a couple of years ago when it seemed as if every technology, media and entertainment company was scrambling to adapt to a future in which regular people would live parallel digital lives online, walking around as virtual reality avatars in 3D computerized worlds. That…

David Bramble, the man who would remake Harborplace — unless Baltimoreans vote down his plan on Election Day — has another big project already underway, one with huge potential for the west side of the city. Three miles north of Harborplace, Reservoir Square is a $100 million redevelopment of a nine-acre site along North Avenue,…

By COLLEEN LONG and AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Relatively few Americans fully endorse the idea that a fertilized egg should have the same rights as a pregnant woman. But a significant share say it describes their views at least somewhat well, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press For all the usual stagecraft, the Republican National Convention that opens Monday is different from Donald Trump’s previous nominating affairs. In 2016 and 2020, Trump was the underdog heading into fall and faced criticism from within his own party. This year, he will accept the Republican nomination with his party…

A scene he witnessed during Westminster’s first Pride festival in 2018 sticks with Jason Garber, president of the nonprofit that runs the event. Standing outside Birdie’s Cafe, he watched a woman kneel down and look into her child’s eyes as a same sex couple walked by. “See that? That’s just people who love each other,”…

In a last-minute move, the Baltimore City Council canceled Wednesday’s highly anticipated hearing on the ongoing opioid crisis. A total of four oversight hearings were scheduled after a New York Times article called Baltimore “The Overdose Capital” of the U.S. Mayor Brandon Scott’s office strongly disputed some of the statements in the article, especially regarding…

By NADIA LATHAN AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — About 500,000 customers still won’t have electricity into next week as wide outages from Hurricane Beryl persist and frustration mounts over the pace of restoration, an official with Houston’s biggest power utility said Thursday. Jason Ryan, executive vice president of CenterPoint Energy, said power has been restored to…

What a wonderful tribute to Richard Campbell Donohue by Jason Coleman and his students at St. Paul’s School, who brought Donohue’s story to light (St. Paul’s students travel back in history with trip to the Netherlands to honor WWII hero, July 9). It’s so important for young people to have a sense of the reasons…

I enjoyed reading the letter from Mr. Gavant about The Sun covering the Capitals hockey team (It’s cool to see Capitals ice hockey covered in The Sun, July 6). Before Baltimore’s basketball and hockey teams left town some years ago, I was the team dentist for both teams. It seems that The Sunpapers have been…

It is amazing that we as a nation would be so caught up with age when age really brings wisdom. President Joe Biden has more knowledge and wisdom in his years of political history than former President Donald Trump has in his little finger (“Biden offers best chance to defeat Trump,” July 8)! We should…