The Ravens’ Thanksgiving Day game against the Pittsburgh Steelers has been postponed to Sunday afternoon amid a coronavirus outbreak, the NFL announced Wednesday.
Maryland defeated Old Dominion, 85-67, at Xfinity Center on Wednesday afternoon in its season opener, the first of three games in five days for a four-team event in College Park.
The Baltimore County Public Schools system was hit with a ransomware cyber attack, shutting down all network systems, officials said Wednesday.
Some patients in the outpatient clinic at the Baltimore City Convention Center’s field hospital have started receiving an experimental antibody treatment.
For Black Marylanders, sauerkraut has become an unlikely side dish during holiday meals, despite its German origins.
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For now, the U.S. appears to have avoided a ruinous breakdown of its electoral system. Next time, Americans might not be so lucky.
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A day before Thanksgiving, Maryland reported 2,697 new coronavirus cases and 38 deaths tied to COVID-19.
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Based on IMDb rankings and Metacritic scores, Stacker compiled a list of the best war movies of all time. How many have you seen?
This year’s Symphony of Lights drive thru will go forward after a court ruled Wednesday against a request for a preliminary injunction to halt the event. While the ruling clears the way for Wednesday’s start to the Columbia holiday event, the monthslong lawsuit among the parties continues.
Richard Rombro, a retired judge who was an advocate for progressive causes and who formerly served in the Maryland General Assembly, died of stroke complications Nov. 17 at Roland Park Place. The former Mount Washington and Park Heights resident was 91.
Mount St. Mary's opened its men's basketball season with a victory over Morgan State at Hill Field House.
Junior swingman John Carter Jr. scored 17 points on the strength of four 3-pointers as Navy men's basketball defeated a talented George Washington team, 78-71, Wednesday afternoon at Alumni Hall.
Almost two decades after the “Stop Snitching” street DVD jolted Baltimore officials about the problem of witness intimidation, a series of recent cases makes clear the practice continues and has evolved, exploiting social media and mobile technology.
As Giving Tuesday, the kick-off to the holiday giving season approaches, many nonprofits are holding their breath to see what the last stretch of 2020 will hold for them.
There may not be a whit of scientific evidence that reading a good book boosts your immune system, but we are choosing to believe that it does anyway.
Avril Haines, Joe Biden’s nominee for director of national intelligence, has several Baltimore ties. She studied physics at the Johns Hopkins University, opened Adrian’s Book Cafe in Fells Point, was president of the Fells Point Business Association, and two years ago was named a senior fellow at Hopkins' Applied Physics Laboratory.
As Maryland men's basketball coach Mark Turgeon enters his 10th season in College Park, his tenure could best be described as polarizing.
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- Junior swingman John Carter Jr. scored 17 points on the strength of four 3-pointers as Navy men's basketball defeated a talented George Washington team, 78-71, Wednesday afternoon at Alumni Hall.
- While string lights may adorn Christmas trees in Catonsville, Arbutus and Towson, the crowds of families that usually gather during tree-lighting festivities to sip hot cocoa and greet Santa as he arrives will not be there.
- Richard Rombro, a retired judge who was an advocate for progressive causes and who formerly served in the Maryland General Assembly, died of stroke complications Nov. 17 at Roland Park Place. The former Mount Washington and Park Heights resident was 91.
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- The comeback was far from a given; staff cleared out the walk-in refrigerator in March when the pandemic hit, and assumed it would never reopen.
- Is pumpkin pie a “vile pretender” of a dessert, whose flavor profile hinges upon the spices strewn about the innards of a dissected gourd? Or is it a mouth-watering delicacy that couldn’t possibly be delivered via mail, lest it be gnawed at by “rascally postmasters” and arrive half-eaten?
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