Holidays

The St. Patrick's Day brawl

2012-05-15 15:25:31

New details of the Baltimore police response to a particularly large, unruly and violent crowd of youths downtown over the St. Patrick's Day weekend not only raise the question of whether the department has the resources it needs to anticipate and respond...

Wine, dine your mom in HdG Sunday

2012-05-15 16:52:00

Happy �Mother's Day �dear readers, If you are a mom or a grandmother, you hopefully will celebrate Sunday surrounded by loved ones. Mother's Day �is the single most popular day to dine out – how about a Havre de Grace restaurant – or make...

Downtown mobs -- what police call routine others describe as scary

2012-05-15 05:25:00

There is a disconnect sometimes between what police see as normal and routine and what others view as scary. When Denise Kostka and her husband saw a mob forming outside her downtown hotel, she became frightened. She didn't see a lot of police, the young...

Some feel city covered up extent of St. Patrick's Day violence

2012-05-14 18:45:00

On Saturday night, Denise Kostka and her husband, disturbed by loud voices, peered out from their eighth-floor room in the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel and saw at least 100 teens massing on the street below. "I never saw anything like that,...

'Mad Men' recap: Season 5, Episode 9: 'Dark Shadows'

2012-05-13 21:02:00

"The air is toxic. I don't want that in here." -- Megan Draper Sure,�Megan was talking about the smog alert. But she was also basically summarizing what all of "Dark Shadows" was about. Everyone is angry. At everyone else. No one is happy. Not one bit....

Readers react to St. Patrick's Day violence

2012-05-14 04:23:00

Sunday's story on violence at St. Patrick's Day attracted many reactions. Most people writing me emails and in comments at the bottom story said the city had become scary. It's further proof of the uphill battle the city has trying to show improving crime...

St. Patrick's Day violence exceeded initial reports, police dispatch tapes show

2012-05-12 12:07:00

As an unseasonably warm St. Patrick's Day drew to a close in Baltimore, teens by the hundreds swarmed downtown, keeping one step ahead of police while battling from corner to corner, mostly with fists, sometimes with knives. As authorities watched from a...

Marie Rose Cornely, homemaker

2012-05-09 15:00:25

Marie Rose Cornely, a homemaker who enjoyed writing poetry, died Sunday of heart disease at Stella Maris Hospice. She was 87. Marie Rose McKenna was born and raised in Philadelphia. She was a 1943 graduate of the Academy of Notre Dame de Namur in...

Franchot's September song

2012-04-28 05:00:00

Data-stream around Grandpa, youngsters 2.1 and 3.1, while he tells you about the time long, long ago when a certain elected official grew so nostalgic about a time even longer ago when Labor Day marked the beginning of the school year. Way back in the...

With new book, Madeleine Albright sheds light on long-hidden family secrets

2012-05-05 00:00:00

In 1997, Madeleine Albright couldn't have been more certain that she knew everything important about herself and was in possession of every relevant fact about her life. And then, at age 59, just days after being confirmed as U.S. secretary of state,...

Gymnasts earn awards and titles at state championship meet

2012-04-24 09:39:00

Level 4 gymnasts from Aberdeen-Churchville Parks and Recreation Gymnastics traveled to the bay for their final competition of the 2011-2012 gymnastics season. Thirty-seven girls competed in their USA Gymnastics Junior Olympic State Championship meet in...

Pet food for Passover

2012-04-04 09:19:00

You think you're all set for Passover -- but maybe you forgot about your pet? You do not have to remove your cat or dog's food and dish bowl as you begin prepping for Passover this week if you switch to Evanger's kosher dog and cat food. Established in...

Kids costumed as Christmas tree ornaments were featured in the Disney-MGM holiday parade in 1999.

2012-05-14 12:58:00

A member of the Samaritan sect raises a Torah scroll during the traditional pilgrimage marking the holiday of Passover atop Mount Gerizim near the West Bank city of Nablus.

2012-05-11 00:00:00

The night before Halloween Algerina Perna photographed Mark Sanders portraying Edgar Allan Poe at Poe's Frightful Halloween! which was held at Westminster Hall, in the graveyard, and the Westminster Catacombs.

2012-05-03 16:02:21