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Obama Focusing on Job Creation in Baltimore Visit
(WASHINGTON) — President Barack Obama is leaving behind scandal-focused Washington to focus on the country's slowly improving jobs picture. Obama is to fly by...

Racketeering, Smuggling, Sex with Guards: 25 Indicted in Massive Baltimore Prison Scandal
Twenty-five people, including 13 guards, have been busted in a scandal featuring everything from racketeering to smuggling to an inmate impregnating female...

Baltimore Breakup: The Brutal Business of the NFL
The Baltimore Ravens -- Super Bowl champs -- trade wide receiver Anquan Boldin to save salary cap space.

Power Outages Big Fear As Storm Bears Down On DC
(HAGERSTOWN, Md.) — After pummeling the nation's midsection with heavy snow, a late-winter storm made its way Wednesday to the nation's capital, where residents...
When Bad Bets Happen to Good Mayors
There are many reasons i should not be mayor of a major city, like my tendency--in even minor tense situations--to overuse the Bat-Signal. But I would be great...
A San Franciscan’s Superbowl Ode to Baltimore
Worried that the mayors of Baltimore and San Francisco would just offer each other crabs for their Super Bowl bet, I used the Awesome Column to get San...

The Wonderful Weirdness of Super Bowl XLVII
A blackout, wild momentum swings, fodder for second guessing: this Super Bowl had it all. How the Baltimore Ravens pulled off the win.
Bad Lights, Bad Refs, Bad Sportsmanship: 5 Lingering Super Bowl Questions
Though the big game is over, there's still plenty to talk about.
WATCH: When the Lights Went Out at Super Bowl XLVII
(Lack of) Lights! Camera! Action!
Earl Weaver and the Ravens: Let Us Now Praise Baltimore
A legend dies and a franchise rises—and the city Baltimore returns to sports primacy

Super Bowl XLVII: 9 Wacky Ways of Predicting the Winner
From video games to animals of all sizes and species, superstitions abound when it comes to trying to guess the winner.
For The Super Bowl, A Family Affair
The Harbaugh brothers, Jim and John, will face off in the Super Bowl when the San Francisco 49ers meet the Baltimore Ravens

The NFL’s Thrilling Playoff Weekend: Did Fear Cost Peyton Manning?
Denver coach John Fox should have taken a shot to win the game in regulation. After all, Matt Ryan and the Falcons pulled it off.

‘Chubby’ from The Little Rascals Gets a Headstone After 76 Years
The quintessentially American Our Gangseries may have followed the fictional adventures of a playful group of children, but the real biography of one of its...

Today’s Sign of the Zombie Apocalypse: Student Charged in Cannibalistic Slaying of Housemate
A student at Morgan State University told police that he ate the heart and part of the brain of a man who lived in suburban Baltimore and had been missing for a...

From Baltimore Cop to English Serial Killer
Dominic West — Jimmy McNulty on The Wire — plays an infamous murderer in the new film Appropriate Adult.
Hot Market for Homes Selling Under $10,000
A market for ultra-cheap homes has emerged in cities around the U.S., and the result is that in many cases it’s much less expensive to buy a house than it would...

MARTIN O'MALLEY / BALTIMORE: Wonk 'n' Roller
Twice since Martin O'Malley was elected mayor six years ago, Baltimore has been hit by blizzards. Each time, he had city workers phone as many as 25,000 elderly...
Cinema: Baltimore Aureole
It's the 1950s--the last time, we nostalgically think, when the American middle-class narrative was coherent, predictable: everyone in his place and a...
Baltimore Bullets
SHOW: HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET TIME: JAN. 31, AFTER THE SUPER BOWL, NBC THE BOTTOM LINE: Hollywood heavyweight Barry Levinson tries a cop show. It's good,...


