The many objections of David Smith
An attorney for the Sinclair chairman and Baltimore Sun owner objected to 64 questions in a recent deposition as part of a lawsuit Smith is funding against city schools.
Sinclair Broadcast Group President and CEO David Smith testifies before the Legislature’s Joint Government Oversight Committee meeting Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2007, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/The Des Moines Register, Doug Wells)
City College students headed to UB after school board approves move
After an onslaught of support for Baltimore City College, the city school board approved a plan to allow students to move to the University of Baltimore for three years during the renovation of the high school’s century-old building.
Baltimore City College is seen on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024.
More affordable housing may be coming to your neighborhood. It could be hard to spot.
The goal, developers say, is to turn affordable housing on its head — making seamless with surrounding communities and attractive to residents of various income brackets.
The mixed-income Legacy at Twin Rivers project as seen on 4/19/2024 in Columbia, MD.
UMMC doctors will decide whether to unionize in a vote next month
The election will be held at the hospital’s downtown campus and its midtown campus over two days next month. The results will determine whether the union is established.
The election will be held at the hospital’s downtown campus and its midtown campus over two days, June 12-13.
MICA students learn about racism in historic Black neighborhoods through woodworking
The historic cornices, vent covers, trims and other ornate fixtures they made in class will go on renovated Baltimore homes in Black neighborhoods.
MICA professor Sarah Doherty’s class poses for a photo with cornice pieces they made to be installed on the revitalized West Baltimore home in the background on May 3, 2024.
A risky double transplant and back to work. Restaurateur Tony Foreman is used to almost dying.
Tony Foreman, co-founder of one of Baltimore’s biggest and most respected restaurant empires, was saved by a heart and kidney transplant surgery so tricky John Hopkins couldn’t do it.
Restaurateur Tony Foreman shows the scars on his chest from numerous surgeries.
After a long year and no answers, a family honors their loved one
Rotina Lacy, mother of Airman Makai Cummings, poses for a portrait during the Memorial Day observance at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens on May 27, 2024.
The 7 things you have to spot to call yourself a true Baltimorean
From a certain running man to a certain revving bike, there are seven Baltimore totems you have to see before you can claim resident status.
Members of Baltimore’s dirt bike community outside the B&O Railroad Museum.
Morgan State’s plan to train more Black doctors is years behind schedule
Construction hasn't started, funding appears uncertain and it'll be at least another two years before students enroll.
Photo collage of old hospital building on left and young Black female medical student on right, both obscured by chain link fence.
17-year-old killed, 15-year-old injured in West Baltimore shooting Saturday
Baltimore Police responded to a ShotSpotter alert Saturday afternoon that led them to a 17-year-old boy suffering a fatal gunshot wound and a 15-year-old with a nonfatal one.
A Baltimore City Police car sits parked on North Calvert St.
Baltimore Police detective survives after being shot in chest in South Baltimore
“Luckily,” Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley told reporters, “his protective vest saved his life.”
A Baltimore Police detective survived after being shot in the chest Friday in the 3400 block of South Hanover Street in the Fairfield area of South Baltimore.
Letters: Immigrants have always made America better
Meeting the the needs of migrant children in Maryland and their families will make our communities stronger, a Pikesville physician says.
Meeting the the needs of migrant children in Maryland will make our communities stronger, a Pikesville physician says.
7 restaurants and bars with outdoor seating to soak up the sun
Food social media influencer Chris Franzoni recommends some of his favorite outdoor restaurants to eat and drink at in Baltimore City, Baltimore County and Carroll County.
A grapefruit rosemary crush from Charly’s Waterfront in Essex.
Vacant and damaged, one former Catholic church may serve as warning about closures to come
St. James the Less Roman Catholic Church once anchored an East Baltimore neighborhood that was home to many German Catholics, but it has languished since the parish was dissolved in the 1980s. A lightning strike sparked a fire in the towering steeple in 2020, and now it's up for sale with a $1 million asking price.
St. James the Less Roman Catholic Church offers a tale of the promise and the pitfalls of offloading historic and expensive-to-maintain religious properties.
Public memorial service set to celebrate Johns Hopkins Black studies scholar
Shani Mott, a scholar of Africana studies at the Johns Hopkins University, died in March. A celebration to commemorate her life will be held Sunday.
From left, London, Clarke and Elijah and their father, Nathan Connolly, pose with a photo of Shani Mott.
They bonded over the Grateful Dead. Now friends of a slain trans woman honor her at a festival
The festival — they are calling it MegFest — was supposed to pair up with the day of the trial of the man who fatally shot her. It is supposed to bring closure to a community that is still piecing together what happened that night in December.
Meghan Lewis' life is honored with a candle lit memorial in Bel Air, MD on Jan 2, 2024.
For sale: 3 homes near Baltimore pools
Baltimore homes for sale in Highlandtown, Hampden and Riverside near city pools.
FAFSA chaos: Delays in financial aid decisions complicating college search
Delays with the Free Application for Federal Student Aid means students can’t make decisions about which college they will attend.
Camryn Carter, a senior in Baltimore, got accepted with a full scholarship to University of Maryland, College Park, his first choice. He called the FAFSA delays “a blessing and a curse”: a blessing because his mother had more time to fill out the form and a curse because it was difficult for him to juggle the FAFSA process with his demanding AP courses and college essays.
With final votes counted, Jones upsets Stokes in East Baltimore council race
A longtime union leader, Jones ran a progressive campaign to unseat a two-term East Baltimore stalwart. He joins a wave of young, progressive-leaning candidates set to join the council.
A compilation photo of councilman Robert Stokes Sr.  on the left and Jermaine Jones on the right.
Baltimore pools set to open for summer. Here’s when and where.
This weekend marks the unofficial start of summer. It also means pools across Baltimore will be reopening soon for those looking to cool off and splash around.
Kids play in the Roosevelt Park Pool and most of the other city pools are opening, some with extended hours, after a lifeguard shortage caused closures over the last few years since the pandemic.
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