Haiti Earthquake (2010)

Comfort leaves Baltimore for final time

2013-02-26 16:30:00

A maritime icon slipped out of Baltimore for the final time Tuesday morning, without speeches or hoopla, brass bands or balloons. Only a small band of well-wishers waved and took pictures as the Navy's 894-foot hospital ship Comfort left Pier 11 in...

Columbia 'pioneer' has plan for Haiti

2013-02-14 03:15:00

Three years after a devastating earthquake left much of Haiti in ruins, a new effort has been launched to help the long-suffering island nation — an effort based in Howard County and spearheaded by a well-known Haitian with close ties to Columbia....

Five questions with … Ellen Reich

2012-11-25 00:00:00

Ellen Reich's business — run out of her Butcher's Hill rowhouse — has international reach. She's the proprietress (she loves that word) of Three Stone Steps, which sells metal art, recycled jewelry and other intriguing items made by...

Celebration of King's life punctuated by commitment to create a 'beloved community'

2013-01-21 04:00:00

Standing inside the Smith Theatre at Howard Community College on Sunday, social activist and author Dorothy Bailey recalled Martin Luther King Jr.'s words resonated with her as she was preparing to "sit in" protest at North Carolina Central University...

Q&A with Wilde Lake football player Moise Larose

2012-10-10 15:04:00

An All-State lineman on the offensive side of the ball last season, Wilde Lake's Moise Larose may be even more impressive this fall on the defensive side. The 6-foot-5, 285-pound senior has committed to Rutgers as an offensive tackle, but Wildecats coach...

Seclusion helps All-American Rejects singer re-focus

2012-09-19 17:54:00

A few years ago, Tyson Ritter, the lean lead singer of the All-American Rejects, was a walking rock 'n' roll cliche. After experiencing "life-changing" success thanks to "Gives You Hell" — his band's 2008 single that sold more than 4 million copies...

Glen Mar church group brings hope to Haiti

2012-07-26 08:44:00

The unpaved street winds up a steep, rocky hill to a "shell of a hospital." It's a concrete structure without any patients, said Shirley Matlock, a member of Glen Mar Methodist Church, in Ellicott City. Construction supplies, tile and paint occupy most of...

Tornadoes, derecho meant a whirlwind start to job for MEMA director Mallette

2012-07-18 16:16:00

One afternoon in early June, Ken Mallette was in Jacksonville driving from a funeral when he got a text message about severe storms striking Maryland. One of the storms' 11 tornadoes had just ravaged nearby Fallston. In his second week as executive...

Naval Academy greets record number of female plebes

2012-06-28 15:56:00

The snide comments surprised Randy Kurtz, who figured she was suffering the same harrowing rites of passage as her U.S. Naval Academy classmates as they trudged through the plebe summer of 1978. "You don't belong here," the male midshipmen might say. A...

Navy moving hospital ship Comfort to Virginia

2012-02-14 19:19:00

The USNS Comfort, the white-hulled hospital ship that has been a fixture of the Baltimore waterfront for a quarter-century, is moving next year to Norfolk, Va., the Navy announced Tuesday. Maryland officials had fought the move of the ship, whose...

Maryland Air National Guard losing planes, mission

2012-02-20 17:08:00

For months, the men and women of the 135th Airlift Group have been training on their new C27J Spartan turboprops for their deployment this spring to Afghanistan. Their job: carrying soldiers, equipment and supplies around the war zone as the fighting...

Rachel Marsden: Are government's 'strategic communications' coming to America?

2012-05-24 00:00:00

Did you hear about the new bill that would allow the U.S. government's official overseas information agency to rebroadcast its content onto American TV and radio? The bipartisan Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 was introduced in Congress last week by...

After the 2010 earthquake struck Haiti, many families were forced to live on the streets. These young children were resting in a bucket in Port-au-Prince.

2013-05-10 11:52:07

Ultimately, she said, her goal is to help individual Haitians develop work skills that could lift them into the middle class. "People are already starting to talk about starting a business," she said. "That's the hope." Wettermann's work in Haiti is just one of her many interests.

2013-04-28 00:00:00

Children play among the wreckage of a light aircraft in a camp for survivors of the January 2010 quake in Haiti, which was built in an abandoned airport in Port-au-Prince, on February 28, 2013.

2013-03-01 00:00:00