Jean Marbella

Jean Marbella is an investigative and enterprise reporter for The Baltimore Sun. She joined The Sun in 1987 and has been a features writer, national correspondent, editor and columnist. She was born in Havre de Grace, grew up in Chicago and graduated from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism.

WITH THE BRITISH 7th ARMORED BRIGADE

August 21, 2021 at 1:25 a.m.

As British troops began to take control of this city Sunday morning, members of Saddam Hussein's ruling Baath Party shot at residents attempting to flee. One of their targets was...

Marine Lance Cpl. Marcco Ware carries a wounded Iraqi soldier, who was shot three times during an attack on a convoy of the 3rd Battalion, Fifth Regiment. One Marine was killed, as were about 35 Iraqis.

In a flash, Marine in spotlight

August 21, 2019 at 3:58 p.m.

Marine Lance Cpl. Marcco Ware was on guard duty last night, gazing across a dark Iraqi landscape of palm trees, irrigated fields and deserted houses, when he heard that President...

Recalling the days after Challenger

August 22, 2019 at 5:17 p.m.

On a similarly bright winter morning 17 years ago, the space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after liftoff, killing the seven astronauts aboard in a Y-shaped plume of smoke and leaving...

New York continues the rituals of sadness

January 30, 2019 at 11:06 a.m.

NEW YORK - Even as the city finished preparations for today's one-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks, outside a small Catholic church in the Bronx yesterday morning it was business...

In New York, actor Eli Wallach (left), his grandson Tyler and actress Olympia Dukakis listen to Donna Murphy sing at a rehearsal of "Brave New World," a three-day theater marathon.

Artists struggle to make sense of senseless act

January 30, 2019 at 11:07 a.m.

NEW YORK - Against a setting sun, a clarinetist blows fiercely into his instrument, the sound more anguished cry than musical note. Dancers, moving as slowly as a dream, climb...

'It will never be the same there'

January 30, 2019 at 11:07 a.m.

NEW YORK - How close did Rachel Florio live to the World Trade Center's towers? So close that when her husband would call from his office there to say he...

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