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As difficult as it is to simulate the offense of a player such as Purdue’s Carsen Edwards in practice, it is probably tougher to get a true gauge on the kind of defense Michigan employs as a team. Four days after figuring out how to stop the Big Ten’s leading scorer in the second half of Tuesday’s...
A Baltimore pharmacist who was awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty in a federal drug distribution case has been hit with new charges that he paid someone to murder a witness in the case. David Robinson, 51, a licensed pharmacist who owned and operated the Frankford Family Pharmacy, admitted...
Baltimore police say three 14-year-olds have been charged as adults in the sexual assault of a 19-year-old woman in the 300 block of North Fulton Avenue on Feb. 6. Police say the woman had gotten off a bus when four youths forced her into a rear yard at gunpoint and sexually assaulted her. Neighbors...
At spring training facilities across Florida and Arizona this week, the presence of high-speed cameras and data-capturing systems over a pitcher's shoulders in their bullpen sessions is as ubiquitous as the coaches overseeing them. The Orioles' camp is no different, and manager Brandon Hyde said...
On Jan. 22, 2019, the Supreme Court decided by a 5-4 margin to allow the Trump administration’s ban on most transgender individuals serving in the military to go into effect. The justices did not take a stance on the legality of the ban, however, which allows cases that are challenging the policy...
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The Baltimore-based Law Offices of Peter Angelos have joined a host of firms across the country beginning to file lawsuits against the St. Paul, Minn-based 3M Co. over earplugs it provided the military that were alleged to be defective by the U.S. Justice Department. The first local case against...
Consumers who buy energy-efficient appliances this weekend in Maryland will get a break on the state's 6 percent sales tax. Maryland’s tax-free weekend applies to qualifying Energy Star products, such as air conditioners, washers and dryers, furnaces, heat pumps, boilers, solar water heaters, standard...
It's been a complicated few weeks for Amazon, what with its abrupt pullout from a massive New York City development, extortion claims related to intimate photos taken by its founder Jeff Bezos and increasing antitrust scrutiny in Europe. For now, these events seem unlikely to pose much threat to...
Developers of the proposed $5.5 billion Port Covington project in South Baltimore began seeking design approval Thursday from a city architectural review board for the first set of buildings that could break ground late this year and open in 2021. The first phase will contain two residential buildings...
Chicago police late Friday released two brothers they had been questioning about a reported attack on “Empire” star Jussie Smollett, saying they no longer were considered suspects. “Due to new evidence as a result of today’s interrogations, the individuals questioned by police in the Empire case...
Flip open the covers on the half a dozen books listed here, and pretty soon you’ll start hearing voices. But that’s O.K. when those voices are as provocative, thoughtful, funny and fascinating as are those in the six nonfiction titles that we’ve assembled in honor of Black History Month. One voice...
Baltimore pastry chef Duff Goldman, who rose to fame with his cake decorating show “Ace of Cakes,” is partaking in a baking battle against “Cake Boss” Buddy Valastro on the Food Network in March. The challenge will air on the Food Network series “Buddy vs. Duff,” a six-week reality baking competition...
Update: Chicago police late Friday released two brothers they had been questioning about a reported attack on “Empire” star Jussie Smollett, saying they were no longer considered suspects. In an unusual statement, Chicago police said Friday that the two brothers being questioned about a reported...
Whether as the plaintiff in a recently filed lawsuit or a central figure in a new documentary, therapist Christopher Doyle portrays himself as both healer and healed. “The same-sex desires, just like it was in my case, just went away. And today, I’m married, I have two kids and I’m so happy,” Doyle...
Readers: Think you know your Baltimore? Try answering our weekly trivia question. Some weeks will be ridiculously easy, some weeks a bit more challenging. Put your best guess in the “answer” field and hit “submit.” Or comment on Instagram: @retrobaltimore. If you’d like to be recognized for a correct...
Now here is a Valentine’s Day gift that is as romantic as it is practical. In the 1980s, Baltimore launched a Valentine’s Day “adopt-a-pothole” campaign in which citizens could pay to have a pothole filled in their sweetheart’s name. A pink or red heart was stamped in the asphalt by the repair,...
With Valentine’s Day here and Spring Training hard upon us, who better to revisit than former Orioles outfielder Fred Valentine? A native of Clarksdale, Miss., and a star shortstop (and quarterback) at Memphis’ Booker T. Washington High School (class of ’53), Valentine was signed by the Orioles...
Veteran public corruption investigator James Cabezas, who retired two years ago from Maryland’s Office of the State Prosecutor, has written a memoir of a four-decade career taking down corrupt government employees and politicians. This is The Baltimore Sun’s second peek into the plethora of public...
Who judges the judges in Maryland? Gov. Larry Hogan and many state lawmakers think state judges don’t face enough scrutiny. So they have proposed legislation to provide more oversight — by allowing cameras in courtrooms, tracking judges’ sentencing of violent criminals and including the names of...
James Cabezas investigated public corruption for three decades while working in the Maryland state prosecutor’s office before retiring two years ago. And he did it while going blind and even after he lost his sight. Cabezas, with local journalist Joan Jacobson, recently published a memoir of his...