Paul Sarbanes

Margaret Lee, fashion coordinator

2013-03-26 15:33:00

Margaret Beauchamp Van Hollen "Mickey" Lee, a retired fashion coordinator, died of congestive heart failure March 20 at Roland Park Place. She was 88 and had lived in Roland Park for many years. Born Margaret Van Hollen in Baltimore, she was the...

For former members, life after Congress

2013-01-02 14:11:00

Connie Morella served as an ambassador in Paris. Helen Bentley became a consultant to the port of Baltimore. Wayne Gilchrest opened an environmental education center on the Eastern Shore. Former members of Congress from Maryland, they rebounded from...

'79 Orioles recall one of the coldest World Series games

2012-10-26 15:57:00

How cold will it be Saturday night, when the Detroit Tigers and San Francisco Giants meet in the Motor City for Game 3 of the World Series? Forty-three degrees, with temperatures dipping into the upper 30s by game's end, predicts meteorologist Jim...

3rd District called a 'religious gerrymander'

2012-10-04 14:15:00

The shape of Maryland's 3rd Congressional District has been compared to everything from a Rorschach Test inkblot to a crime-scene blood spatter to a broken-winged pterodactyl, but according to one theory its odd dimensions could have a basis in religion...

Anne A. Coulbourn, homemaker

2012-09-06 13:13:39

Anne A. Coulbourn, a homemaker and volunteer, died Aug. 31 of lung cancer at the Blakehurst retirement community. She was 82. The daughter of a stockbroker and a homemaker, the former Anne Adams was born in Baltimore and raised in Ruxton. After...

Cardin launches re-election campaign

2011-11-06 14:41:00

U.S. Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin kicked off his re-election campaign Sunday, promising several hundred supporters that he'd fight for better schools, more jobs, a cleaner environment and access to health care. "It's not about this election. It's about the...

Mikulski honored as longest-serving woman in Congress

2012-03-21 14:56:00

Call her Maryland's Iron Lady. U.S. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski was lauded Wednesday on the floor of the Senate for setting the record as the longest-serving woman in Congress, a streak that her colleague, Sen. Ben Cardin, likened to that of another...

Sarbanes, Edwards say jobs bill hurts transparency

2012-03-09 17:01:00

Two Maryland Democrats who opposed a jobs bill that won House approval this week said Friday they voted against the measure because it would roll back regulations intended to protect investors, including those created under the landmark and...

Congressman tours UMBC research and technology park

2011-07-05 15:34:00

With Congress not in session, U. S. Rep. John Sarbanes visited bwtech@UMBC Research and Technology Park on June 27 as part of his tour of innovative manufacturing sites in Maryland. "I'm trying to move around and talk to some of those organizations and...

Funeral marks Schaefer's 'extraordinary life'

2011-04-27 18:03:00

At a memorial service that celebrated both his landscape-altering legacy and his big-hearted if crusty-shelled persona, the William Donald Schaefer nation gathered one last time on Wednesday — friends and one-time foes alike, Maryland politicos past...

Sun poll: Mikulski builds wide lead in Senate contest

2010-10-25 18:46:00

The first and likely only debate between Sen. Barbara Mikulski and Republican challenger Eric Wargotz appeared unlikely to alter the dynamics of a U.S. Senate contest that seems all but decided. Even as the two met Monday on Maryland Public Television, a...

Schaefer returns to City Hall

2011-04-25 18:13:00

Bells tolled from Zion Lutheran Church and a crowd of more than 100 residents, damp with the unseasonable heat, grew silent. A gleaming hearse pulled up in front of Baltimore's City Hall, bringing the body of William Donald Schaefer to the building...

Former Montgomery County Exec. Doug Duncan, left, and Sen. Paul Sarbanes , right, at the end of the funeral for William Donald Schaefer at Old St. Paul Church.

2011-04-27 00:00:00

Charles McC. Mathias Jr.'s casket rests in front of Vice President Joseph Biden , British Ambassador to the United States Sir Nigel Sheinwald, former Sen. Paul Sarbanes and close friend Walter Pincus.

2010-02-02 00:00:00

U.S. Sen. Paul Sarbanes throws a strike to Javy Lopez for the ceremonial first pitch on Opening Day at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

2005-04-04 00:00:00