Rock and politics take center stage
They came out because one chapter in the life and times of Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley is coming to a close - just as another appears to be opening. More...
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U.S. investigation of City Council ends without charges
Eighteen months after launching a wide-ranging public corruption investigation into the financial practices of the Baltimore City Council, federal prosecutors dropped their criminal probe yesterday without charging anyone. "Our office...
City, schools deal on hold over control
Mayor Martin O'Malley thought he had come up with an offer that the city school system couldn't refuse: The city would provide $3 million to spruce up school buildings and...
Public art to help during pinch
As lawyers argued before the state's highest court about the adequacy of the funding to Baltimore schools, city officials highlighted yesterday the latest gambit to raise funds to renovate the...
Searching for answers in harbor disaster
As rescue workers continued to search yesterday for three missing passengers of the Seaport Taxi overturned by a vicious storm Saturday, federal investigators questioned the captain, first mate and other...
Election rivals see gap in funds
It may be a new day in terms of the configuration of Baltimore's City Council districts, but it is a familiar story as far as fund raising goes: Incumbents are...
Cuts stall homeownership effort
IT HAS BEEN that rarity among government programs -- efficient, effective and, above all, inexpensive. But now Live Near Your Work -- the 5-year-old, city-state-private effort to help employees buy...
Timeline of sniper shootings, arrests
October 2 A 55-year-old man becomes the sniper's first victim when he is killed by a single bullet around 6 p.m. in a grocery parking lot in Montgomery County. Earlier,...
Redrawn map confounds voters
At Charles Village's annual festival in early June, a team of incumbent state legislators showed up for an early round of election-year politicking. By the time the North Baltimore community...
A sad note on Belair Road
After nearly a quarter-century, they're about to sell the last pick and play the final lick at Baltimore Bluegrass. The Northeast Baltimore acoustic music store -- which has provided instruments,...