Ryan O’Hearn, Ramón Laureano face Orioles while chasing a pennant with the Padres
Entering Monday’s game, the Padres are two games behind the Dodgers in the National League West and hold the second wild-card spot.
Ramón Laureano and Ryan O'Hearn of the San Diego Padres celebrates after Laureano hit a two-run home run against the San Francisco Giants on August 13.
Jaire Alexander absent from practice as Ravens prepare for season opener vs. Bills
Alexander has not participated in practice since Aug. 9. Harbaugh told reporters on Aug. 10 that Alexander was “OK.”
Baltimore Ravens cornerback Jaire Alexander (23) jogs to the next drill during the team’s training camp at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Md. on Sunday, August 3, 2025.
Baltimore records 7 homicides in August, fewest for month in a half-century
Baltimore is now in its third consecutive year of steep declines in homicides and nonfatal shootings.
Baltimore Police on scene of a police-involved shooting on the 2700 block of Mosher Street on Wednesday, June 25, 2025.
Tyler Wells to return Tuesday, Suárez and Handley activated as Orioles’ Sept. 1 additions
With Wells and Kyle Bradish back in the mix, the Orioles will move to a six-man rotation for the rest of the season.
Pitcher Tyler Wells photographed during the 2025 Baltimore Orioles Media Day at spring training.
Maryland women’s history losing its keeper as heritage center fades away
The Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, a nonprofit committed to preserving the history of women, is dissolving.
The Maryland Women’s Heritage Center was housed in the historic Woman’s Industrial Exchange building in Baltimore's Mt. Vernon neighborhood.
Trump plans a hefty tax on imported drugs, risking higher prices and shortages
Trump has promised to impose hefty import taxes on pharmaceuticals, a category of products he’s largely spared in his trade war.
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Aug. 22, 2025, in Washington.
Fall-like, sunny weather across Maryland for Labor Day and into this week
Outstanding, fall-like weather will continue in Maryland for Labor Day and through the middle of the week.
Carl Barnhill of Baltimore, walks near Moorish Tower at the Druid Hill Park walking loop in Baltimore, Monday, June 2, 2025.
Maryland’s governor, legislature get so-so grades on environmental scorecards
Two and a half years into Gov. Wes Moore's term, the nonprofit Maryland League of Conservation Voters says his administration has fallen short on its climate and environmental justice commitments and notably backflipped on progressive policies.
Gov. Wes Moore takes questions from reporters on Maryland’s sweeping audit of police-custody deaths during a news conference at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Md. on Thursday, May 15, 2025.
Retirement savings plans are now mandatory in Maryland
Maryland law (HB 1378, 2016) requires most employers to offer their employees a payroll-deducted retirement savings plan at work.
Glenn Simmons, Executive Director MarylandSaves
It’s my turn to host the family cookout. I am not sure I’m ready.
Wallace Lane learned this summer he’s old enough not just to attend the family cookout but to take over the grill too. Call it a rite of passage.
Illustration of black man grilling food at a cookout with family.
Is this the year? 10 reasons the Ravens can (finally) win the Super Bowl.
“We’re not trying to wait anymore,” safety Kyle Hamilton said of the Ravens’ championship aspirations.
Lamar Jackson had the league’s highest touchdown rate and second-lowest interception rate in 2024, and he was an elite runner.
At rally interrupted by federal officials, union leaders and others push for worker protections
The rally in Woodlawn was the third and final stop of the day for the union groups, which were traveling around the region to highlight three themes.
Courtney Jenkins, president of the Metro Baltimore Council AFL-CIO, leads a bus tour through the Greater Baltimore area to visit workplaces to highlight "freedom, fairness and security."
Maryland may open more state trails to e-bikes. Here’s what to know.
Officials with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources are considering allowing e-bikes on more state bike trails, a move they say could increase accessibility to public parks.
Class 1 e-bikes are already permitted on the Western Maryland Rail Trail.
Parents: It’s OK if back to school looks more blooper reel than Instagram reel
The first week of school goes by airport rules — anything goes as long as they get there.
A young woman of color student struggles to carry a large heavy backpack conceptual
Golf center in Southeast Baltimore damaged by 2-alarm fire
A golf center in Southeast Baltimore was damaged by a two-alarm fire on Sunday, according to the Baltimore City Fire Department.
Truck 55 sits in the Baltimore City Fire Department station in Pigtown on Thursday, June 29, 2023.
Orioles can’t solve Justin Verlander as defensive problems mount in 13-2 loss to Giants
The Orioles didn’t hit well, they didn’t play defense well and they certainly didn’t pitch well.
Orioles center fielder Colton Cowser takes a hit away from Heliot Ramos of the Giants with a diving catch in the first inning.
Government shutdown looms as Congress returns after monthlong August recess
As Congress returns to Washington this fall after a monthlong August recess, they will have to find a way to work with Democrats or around them as a government shutdown looms.
The U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. on Friday, January 3, 2025.
Shoppers to close four grocery stores in Maryland
Shoppers is closing its Essex, Westminster, New Carrollton and Waldorf stores.
Shoppers in Mondawmin Mall reopening following a health code violation
When a journalist dies in Gaza, does it change how we think about this horrific war?
When a colleague urged me to write about the death of Anas Al-Sharif, a correspondent covering the war in Gaza for Al Jazeera Arabic, he hoped I would be outraged. I didn’t. Because, frankly, I don’t know how I feel. So I asked someone who was there.
Freelance journalist Mariam Dagga, 33, who had been working with the Associated Press and other outlets during the Gaza war, poses for a portrait in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on June 14, 2024. Dagga was one of several journalists killed along with other people in Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on Monday, Aug. 25, 2025.
As heat kills more Marylanders, air conditioning is a right for some but not for all
But as summers grow hotter and longer, landlords across much of the rest of Maryland are under no obligation to cool buildings.
Thursday, July 17, 2025 — Victoria Price, of Kensington, recounts some of the horror stories from her time at Charter House, a Silver Spring apartment building that was infamous for broken air conditioning. It was one of the catalysts for the 2020 county law requiring apartment building landlords to provide and maintain air conditioning in good working condition for their tenants.
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