Benjamin Jealous rejects doubts that he is too young to head the NAACP
Everyone wants to meet the new guy. And so as Benjamin Todd Jealous works the room at Baltimore's Annie E. Casey Foundation, there is a receiving line of sorts that...
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Revamp of rail systems sought
A new federal study commissioned after the 2001 Howard Street Tunnel fire recommends an overhaul of the city's convoluted passenger and freight systems as the only way to fix a...
Agency faults Stadium Authority
The attorney general's office is contending that the independent state agency that owns Oriole Park at Camden Yards exceeded its authority by paying more than $100,000 to a prominent Baltimore...
In states as far away as Utah, survivors are offered shelter, services
From hurricane-ravaged Louisiana to cramped quarters in Houston's Astrodome to shelters in such states as New York, West Virginia and Utah. Such are the paths that victims of Hurricane Katrina...
Ruling places focus on state for schools fix
Deeming the Baltimore school system's special-education program dysfunctional, Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. hailed yesterday a federal judge's emergency order giving the state control over an area he vowed to...
Arson suspect pleads guilty in fires at upscale housing development
A security guard angry at his employer for denying him bereavement leave when his infant son died and envious of the wealthy residents moving into an upscale Charles County housing...
Slots cast shadow on sunny opening day
Life couldn't get much better for Margaret Runk right now, here at the Pimlico Race Course on an unseasonably warm opening day. It's only 2:30 p.m. and already she's won...
Vallario stands in way of witness-protection bill
He shuffles into his seat near the back of the House of Delegates chamber, a quiet, eccentric man, occasionally rising to explain a bill in his gravelly, barely comprehensible voice....
Senate set to vote on extending medical decision-making rights
Jodi Kelber-Kaye was thrown out of a hospital room when her long-time partner was emerging from heart surgery. Lisa Polyak was refused access as her partner received an anaesthetic before...
Jessamy organizes push for witness law
Fearing that witness-intimidation legislation may again wither in Annapolis, Baltimore State's Attorney Patricia C. Jessamy has asked city community and church leaders to assemble in support of it this morning...