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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,...

With 100 days to go, London calling Michael Phelps

2012-04-17 17:28:00

The day began as so many have forMichael Phelps: at Meadowbrook pool in Mount Washington, where the mileage he has swum over the years would have gotten him to London a long time ago. But on this Saturday, the Baltimore swimmer's work would continue out...

Surprise, surprise: Big Apple swept up in "Timsanity."

2012-03-22 09:23:00

Shocking bulletin from the�Big Apple: New York is officially agog at the�Jets signing of Tim Tebow.�"Linsanity" is so yesterday. Now it's all about "Timsanity." The New York media is reacting to the Jets' controversial signing�in its usual�under-stated...

50 years ago: Bootleg whiskey-making operation in Abingdon broken up

2012-03-26 11:49:00

As taken from the pages of The Aegis dated Thursday, March 29, 1962: Twenty-one hundred gallons of mash, dozens of empty 100-pound sugar bags and an undisclosed amount of moonshine whiskey were confiscated by officials in a raid on a farm near Abingdon....

Day trip: Run with Santa or make a wish at Wisp

2011-12-02 16:20:00

Philadelphia Running of the Santas Dress up as St. Nick and enjoy a day of holiday festivities. Get things started early with a pub crawl featuring $2 beers at several local venues. Then head to Finnigan's Wake to participate in the "Hottest Santa"...

Watching the ball drop — at noon

2011-12-31 16:56:00

At half past noon on New Year's Eve, slivers of yellow confetti littered the main lobby of the Maryland Science Center, where employees worked to sweep them up. There, the ball had already dropped — long before the stroke of midnight which, for...

On New Year's Eve, some Maryland towns will drop anything but a glittering ball

2011-12-30 20:08:00

New York City has its descending ball. Miami Beach has its giant orange. And Princess Anne has its stuffed muskrat. At midnight Saturday, the town of 2,400 people in Somerset County will become the latest in a line of Maryland communities — and...

Deal of the week

2011-12-30 12:23:59

New York City deals heat up as season cools down As families head home after the holidays and children return to school, New York City is on sale for travelers willing to brave the cold temperatures in exchange for lower prices. New York's first-ever...

And a Happy New Duck to you, too!

2011-12-29 06:26:00

With the coming of each new year, many people get predictably festive and offer "Happy New Year" salutations to everyone they encounter. In Havre de Grace, folks have real reasons to be festive, not the least of which is the annual New Year's Eve Duck...

My best New Year's Eve

2011-12-27 20:23:02

A handful of Baltimoreans recall their favorite celebrations. "My best New Year's Eve was when I and a friend went to London to the Millennium Dome for what was essentially a huge rave. … It was also the dumbest thing I ever did. We arrived about...

Last-minute New Year's Eve party ideas

2011-12-27 20:23:00

You're hosting a party, and your guests are going to be streaming through your door in just a few days to ring in the new year. But you've still not pulled all the details of food, drink, decor and so forth together. Here are a few suggestions from Helene...

Fence to enclose Baltimore's New Year's Eve celebration

2011-12-21 15:00:00

Baltimore's free New Year's Eve fireworks are back this year, but with an added wrinkle: The Inner Harbor festivities will be encircled by a metal fence, with access restricted to nine points of entry during much of the celebration. The fence, similar to...

Mark Zuckerberg is seen on a Times Square screen getting ready to ring the NASDAQ stock exchange opening bell on Friday.

2012-05-22 21:26:00

Regulators are probing what went wrong in Facebook's IPO.

2012-05-22 14:32:00

The Nasdaq Marketsite logo is seen across from the news ticker in Times Square.

2012-05-22 13:43:00