The container ship Dali is seen before dawn a crews prepare refloat and remove it from the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge fifty-five days after it hit a structural pier causing a catastrophic collapse. (Jerry Jackson/Staff) Crushed shipping containers are seen on the container ship Dali as it is moved into the Seagirt…
New state laws likely to prove costly | READER COMMENTARY
Every year, Maryland passes a slew of new laws (“Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signs juvenile justice legislation, state budget, and bills in honor of Pava LaPere,” May 16). No one seems to ask nor does the media seem to be interested in the costs of executing and enforcing all these new laws. One big question…
Maryland weather: Warmth and sunshine expected mid week
Clouds are expected to start off the week with Sunday remaining mostly cloudy with a high of 76, according to the National Weather Service. Clouds will remain through Sunday night and into Monday before gradually becoming sunny with a high near 77. Temperatures are expected to drop to 57 Monday night with patchy fog forecast between…
Miss Bel Air 2024 twirls fire and has an eye for art
At 19, Gianna Romero has excelled in a wealth of activities, from ballet to baton twirling, and from acrobatics to art. In March, the Joppatowne native was named Miss Bel Air 2024. A graduate of the John Carroll School, Romero is a freshman and dean’s list student at Stevenson University, majoring in business communications. Here…
2024 Preakness: Fashion and hats | PHOTOS
Jon Aiello, left, and James Cola enjoy the third race of the day ahead of the Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course. (Kevin Richardson/Staff) Valerie Marks of Lutherville and Joe Medrano of Potomac arrive at Pimlico Race Course on Preakness Day 2024. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/Staff) Sherre Harris, left, with her mother, Carolyn Smith,…
Preakness 2024: Every winner from Saturday’s racing program at Pimlico
Here’s a recap of every race in Saturday’s program on 2024 Preakness Day at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. For live coverage of the day, click here. The Batoff Goldie Fitful rainfall Saturday morning pushed the day’s first race — a five-furlong turf dash — over to the dirt. It was a muddy race decided…
2024 Preakness day | PHOTOS
Wearing a horse head mask a Preakness attendee who says his name is John Smith, of Federal Hill, drinks a beer in the infield as his friend Sam Martin, Federal Hill, laughs. (Kim Hairston/Staff) Jockey Alberto Delgado covered in mud after finishing third in the first race of the day while aboard Laddie Dance. The…
Dan Rodricks: The Jim Rouse legacy is now a million affordable homes | STAFF COMMENTARY
When James Rouse died at 81 in 1996, The Baltimore Sun’s obituary described him as “the developer and social architect who turned idealism into bricks, mortar and profit with projects as diverse as Harborplace, Charles Center and Columbia.” Twenty-eight years later, that probably holds up, in the public mind, as the Rouse legacy. But one…
Manchester Valley High students raise mental health awareness through pickleball fundraiser
Manchester Valley High School students held a pickleball tournament this week to raise money for the charity Morgan’s Message, a nonprofit that helps student-athletes struggling with mental health issues. Morgan’s Message is named for Morgan Rodgers, a Virginia native and lacrosse player at Duke University who died by suicide July 11, 2019 at the age…
Trucks are rolling across a new US pier into Gaza. But challenges remain to getting enough aid in
By LOLITA C. BALDOR and JON GAMBRELL (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — Trucks carrying badly needed aid for the Gaza Strip rolled across a newly built U.S. pier and into the besieged enclave for the first time Friday as Israeli restrictions on border crossings and heavy fighting hindered the delivery of food and other supplies.…
UN’s top court opens hearings on the Israeli military’s incursion into Rafah
By MOLLY QUELL (Associated Press) THE HAGUE (AP) — South Africa told the United Nations’ top court on Thursday the situation in Gaza has reached “a new and horrific stage” as it sought emergency measures to halt Israel’s military operation in the enclave’s southern city of Rafah. It was the third time the International Court…
Comparing antiwar protests 60 years apart | READER COMMENTARY
The wall-to-wall coverage of protesters today takes me back to my anti-Vietnam marches in the ’60s, particularly those accompanying arrests and trials of the Catonsville Nine, folks from my hometown of Baltimore, some priests and nuns, who had burned draft card records and files (“Johns Hopkins encampment ends after protesters, university come to agreement,” May…
Teen who ate spicy chip died of high chile consumption and had a heart defect, autopsy says
By STEVE LeBLANC, KATHY McCORMACK and MICHAEL CASEY (Associated Press) BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts teen who participated in a spicy tortilla chip challenge on social media died from eating a large quantity of chile pepper extract and also had a congenital heart defect, according to an autopsy report obtained by The Associated Press. Harris…
Biden administration is moving ahead on new $1 billion arms sale to Israel, congressional aides say
By SEUNG MIN KIM, ELLEN KNICKMEYER and ZEKE MILLER (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has told key lawmakers it plans to move forward on a new $1 billion sale of arms and ammunition to Israel, three congressional aides say. It’s the first arms shipment to Israel to be pushed ahead since the…
En el funeral, evocan la bondad de Miguel Luna, víctima del derrumbe del Key Bridge
Read this article in English. Durante semanas, María del Carmen Castellón oró por que ocurriera este milagro, dijo a la multitud reunida el viernes 10 por la noche en Baltimore. Pedía que toda su familia y todos sus amigos pudieran reunirse para despedirse de su marido, Miguel Luna, quien perdió la vida junto con otros…
From Hogan to a Trumpier Senate: Takeways from Tuesday’s primaries
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI (Associated Press) The presidential primary may be decided, but election season marches on. Voters in several states, including Maryland and West Virginia, chose nominees Tuesday in critical races that could decide the balance of power on Capitol Hill next year. Here are some takeaways from Tuesday’s primaries: HOGAN: GAME-CHANGER OR SACRIFICIAL LAMB?…
Voters at the polls today in Maryland’s primary election | PHOTOS
Albert Matthews, 85, was first to vote at Thomas Jefferson Elementary/Middle School. Arriving before 7 a.m. this year, the Southwest Baltimore resident has made a point to be first in line over the past decade, mainly because he has to get to work early at the city’s Circuit Courthouse. (Lloyd Fox/Staff) Voter Janet Nolan gets…
Man fatally shot in North Baltimore on Monday night, police say
A man was killed in North Baltimore on Monday night, Baltimore Police said. At about 10:46 p.m., officers responded to the 2700 block of Greenmount Avenue, which runs through the Harwood and Better Waverly neighborhoods, to investigate reports of a shooting. They found a man with gunshot wounds to the body. The man was taken…
Palestinians mark 76 years of dispossession as a potentially even larger catastrophe unfolds in Gaza
By JOSEPH KRAUSS (Associated Press) JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinians on Wednesday will mark the 76th year of their mass expulsion from what is now Israel, an event that is at the core of their national struggle. But in many ways, that experience pales in comparison to the calamity now unfolding in Gaza. Palestinians refer to…
Pennsylvania man dies in Harford County motorcycle crash, police say
A man died Sunday night after the motorcycle he was driving went off a roadway and crashed into a telephone pole, Maryland State Police say. Troopers from the state police’s Bel Air barracks responded to the 2600 block of Whiteford Road in Harford County just after 10:30 p.m. for the report of a single-vehicle crash.…
Misery deepens in Gaza’s Rafah as Israeli troops press operation
By WAFAA SHURAFA, JOSEPH KRAUSS and SAMY MAGDY (Associated Press) RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Aid workers are struggling to distribute dwindling food and other supplies to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by what Israel says is a limited operation in Rafah, as the two main crossings near the southern Gaza city remain closed.…
Watch: Gov. Wes Moore news conference with updates on Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse
Watch Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s news conference Monday at 10:30 a.m. on the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge. U.S. Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, U.S Senator Ben Cardin, the U.S Coast Guard, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. were also in attendance. Top Featured Tags: – Maryland News…
