Forget any comparison to the movie "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs." Baltimore's meatball forecast is sunny and bright. In late February, 8 Ball Meatball opened a Fells Point restaurant specializing in an assortment of the golf-ball-size rounds. And a year ago, Meatballs, Etc. presented its...
Manager Buck Showalter said Wednesday that Tillman would pitch on three days rest, Friday in the series opener against the Tampa Bay Rays.
I had the pleasure of serving on the board of the Howard County Conservancy starting back in the 1990s when it was just getting off the ground as a local nonprofit. It had recently come into possession of Mt. Pleasant, a little-known, 232-acre farm off of Route 99 in Woodstock. We weren't quite...
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US Foods said Wednesday that it would close a distribution center in Anne Arundel County in June, eliminating the last local footprint of a once-mighty Maryland company, after failing to reach an agreement on concessions with unionized workers at the facility. The decision to shift operations to...
When two employees at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center died just months apart in what the hospital described as domestic violence incidents, their co-workers were left wondering if they had missed signs at work about the problems at home and what they could have done to intervene....
The hackers who seriously disrupted operations at MedStar Health recently and held some data hostage broke into a computer server left vulnerable despite urgent public warnings in 2007 and in 2010 that it needed to be fixed with a simple update. The hackers exploited design flaws that had persisted...
It would be easy to assume Frederick's Flying Dog Brewery has always been a Maryland business. From collaborations with Otterbeinâs Bakery and Old Bay to a partnership with the nonprofit Oyster Recovery Partnership benefiting the Chesapeake Bay, Flying Dog has made forming tangible connections...
Since his "Bank Rolls (Remix)" established him as a rapper to watch last year, East Baltimore's Tate Kobang had yet to release a new project to capitalize on the national buzz. That changed Friday, when Kobang released "Since Weâre Here," a 10-song mixtape recorded over the last five months that...
Owners Scott Bauer and Nate McKinney have tapped into a tiny slice of Germany's famous beer halls at Das Bier Haus in Federal Hill. Mugs of beer, hearty fare and communal tables have been drawing diners to the convivial corner space since it opened Jan. 7. Bauer got the idea for the restaurant...
Dangerously Delicious Pies owner Mary Martian Wortman was just as surprised as everyone else when Orioles center fielder Adam Jones smeared an orange pie in teammate Matt Wieters' face after Wieters' walk-off single Monday night â except, maybe, Wieters himself. Though Jones said during the offseason his...
Adoptable pets: Here's a collection of a few of the dogs, cats and other critters in the Baltimore area who need homes.
The team behind the Inner Harbor's "Mr. Trash Wheel" hopes to get a second googly-eyed garbage collector in Canton by the end of the year, but still needs nearly $90,000 in donations to build it. The Healthy Harbor Initiative has raised about $461,000 for the project, 83 percent of its $550,000...
The University of Maryland had $50,000 worth of outside help in the search leading to the hiring of head football coach DJ Durkin, according to school documents obtained in a public records request. The university paid a $50,000 consulting fee to Chuck Neinas, president of Colorado-based Neinas...
Ravens officials often don't reveal a whole lot about their draft plans, but sometimes it's what they don't say that speaks loudest.
Brown, an undrafted rookie out of James Madison who was one of team's preseason standouts last year, played in six games in 2015, starting one.
In Annapolis, you never know what might set off a fight. Sometimes, it's politics, sometimes personalities and on occasion, it's just a bit mystifying. That last possibility might be the only viable explanation (or non-explanation) of the circumstances surrounding Gov. Larry Hogan's veto of the...
Last month's attacks on an airport and train station in Brussels and the bombing of a city park in Lahore, Pakistan, were cruel reminders of the indifference with which terrorists regard human life. That is why President Barack Obama was right to keep up the pressure on world leaders meeting in...
Megan Sennett lives in Annapolis with her three daughters. Like thousands of moms, she supports her kids with a part-time job. In fact, she has three of them. It's a high-wire balancing act. The slightest bump can knock her right off. For Megan, that blow came last summer when she was diagnosed...
Spurred on by the federal government, hospitals in Maryland have moved quickly in recent years to roll out electronic medical records. The benefits are many. Electronic medical records can help patients avoid unnecessary tests. They help doctors tailor treatment even for patients they are meeting...
With the latest federal court ruling on police use of Tasers, a South Carolina police officer must face a civil trial for shocking a decorated soldier three times while arresting him for playing loud music from his car. The decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit adds to the...
Gov. Larry Hogan has made no secret of his disdain for a transportation scoring bill headed to his desk, but has his rhetoric left behind the facts? In addition to emails and Facebook posts asserting the same thing, Hogan bluntly told reporters Thursday that this "terrible, terrible piece of legislation"...