Elizabeth II

Come, noble brothers! Let us abolish this seditious "privacy"

2013-04-22 04:18:00

Stars are shooting, drinking, driving and chomping, and the government is watching. Welcome to your post-weekend trends report for April 22, 2013.� You have to love Congress. America's favorite band of geriatric jokers decided it would be hi-LAR-ious to...

The lady was a champ

2013-04-13 04:00:00

MANCHESTER, England -- There is a story about Margaret Thatcher that is probably apocryphal but speaks volumes about the strength of Britain's first female prime minister, who died Monday at age 87. Following her election in 1979, the story goes that...

Jesse Weinberg

2013-04-05 13:59:52

Jesse S. Weinberg, who practiced law for seven decades and made a specialty of Baltimore's ground rents, died of respiratory failure March 20 at Sinai Hospital. The Pikesville resident was 94. Born in Baltimore and raised near Druid Hill Park on Lakeview...

Ralph K. 'Ken' Barnes, World War II POW

2013-02-26 15:46:23

Ralph K. "Ken" Barnes, a retired Koppers Co. manager who was a prisoner of war during the twilight months of World War II, died Saturday from complications of a stroke at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The longtime Cockeysville resident was 89. The...

Poetic passions, tragic partings among Baltimore's greatest romances

2013-02-08 05:10:00

Baltimore has witnessed love and loss. From the banks of the harbor to Mount Vernon's cobblestones to the grassed-over burial plots of Greenmount Cemetery, embedded in this city are vestiges of some of history's great romances, stories of people coming...

Five questions for ... Richard Golden

2013-02-08 11:02:00

Richard Golden became a savior of the Maryland thoroughbred horse breeding industry in 1988 when he teamed with Allaire du Pont and later Tom Bowman to open Northview Stallion Station in Chesapeake City, eventually revitalizing farmland that had been home...

'American Idol' season 12 premiere, Nicki and Mariah spar in New York

2013-01-17 05:34:00

Oh, "American Idol" Season 12. Where else would the show premiere but in "The City That Never Sleeps," and New York offered up� its biggest and brightest budding stars. Enter the judges: Randy Jackson, country heartthrob Keith Urban and the two "ladies"...

A murder mystery that just won't die

2012-12-30 16:52:00

Sixty years ago, an extraordinary reign began in England, one that would provide the nation with a comforting measure of stability and continuity during some of the most tumultuous decades of the 20th century and right on into the far-from-placid 21st....

Slush and celebrities as we groggily recover

2012-12-26 07:21:00

Happy Boxing Day! If you haven't tipped your coachman, be sure to pull a few shillings from behind your ascot, then send him off to spend the day with his brood. With most people still out of the office, online trends are leaning toward what movie to...

Our special relationship with 'Downton Abbey'

2013-01-09 10:38:11

America has a remarkably close relationship with its previous owner. It seems we no sooner threw off the yoke of George III than we started collecting mugs decorated with the images of royal wedding partners. England and the United States have been...

Band ready for its mighty moment

2013-01-19 19:28:32

They've played for the queen. They've played for four presidents. And Monday, the "Mighty Sound of Maryland" will add President Barack Obama to their list of famous fans. Led by the sounds of booming drum lines and trombones, the University of...

Kate Middleton is pregnant! The top Twitter reactions

2012-12-03 10:01:00

Confession: We got a bit too excited when we heard the news today that Kate Middleton's expecting a little royal baby. Apparently, so did everyone else. We've rounded up the best (er, funniest) reactions to Will and Kate's big news. "#royalbaby is...

Britain's Queen Elizabeth disembarks from an amphibious vehicle as members of the St Aubyn family wait to welcome her to Mount St. Michael off the coast of Cornwall, in south west England

2013-05-17 00:00:00

A 4-inch Lego replica of Queen Elizabeth dons a mini-crown with 48 cut diamonds that will be on display at two Legolands in England.

2013-05-15 23:24:35

1955: Years before Queen Elizabeth visited Chicago, cartoonist Carey Orr celebrated royalty closer to home.

2013-05-10 12:18:00