Local News | Retro Baltimore: Echoes of the Key Bridge collapse in the 1883 Tivoli disaster on the Patapsco River By Jacques Kelly April 16, 2024 at 5:00 a.m. On the night of July 23,1883, 63 people — 34 women, 23 children and six men...
Retro HoCo: Elton John’s 1971 concert at Merriweather Post Pavilion caused a ruckus By Mike Klingaman April 11, 2024 at 10:50 a.m. On June 16, 1971, nearly 300 people tried to crash John's concert, which drew 12,000...
Sports | Retro Baltimore: How Orioles’ arrival helped integrate Baltimore hotels in 1950s By Mike Klingaman April 2, 2024 at 5:00 a.m. The arrival of the 1954 Orioles helped hasten the demise of segregation that marked Baltimore's...
Local News | Retro: College students explore Cherry Heights, Baltimore County enclave once reserved for Black residents By Frederick N. Rasmussen March 19, 2024 at 5:00 a.m. "A New Suburb for Colored People" proclaimed a newspaper ad for Cherry Heights, one of...
Local News | Part of Assateague Island was poised to be ‘Ocean City South’ when Ash Wednesday Storm hit By Paul McCardell March 10, 2024 at 10:09 a.m. Much of the Maryland part of Assateague could have been a resort community called Ocean...
Sports | Retro Baltimore: When Yankees manager Billy Martin brawled at the Cross Keys Inn By Jacques Kelly March 5, 2024 at 8:23 p.m. The fight that made sports history began in the early hours of a September Sunday...
Local News | A difficult choice for Baltimore: Which Catholic churches will close? By Jacques Kelly March 4, 2024 at 11:58 a.m. As Baltimore lost nearly 350,000 people in the last 50 years, Catholic church numbers have...
Local News | Remembering Morgan State students’ long fight to integrate Northwood Theatre, won this week in 1963 By Paul McCardell February 23, 2024 at 12:08 p.m. The Civic Interest Group's eight-year campaign to open the Northwood Theatre to Black patrons was...
Baltimore Orioles | Retro Baltimore: 70 years ago, Orioles stirred up desert stardust at their first spring training By Mike Klingaman February 20, 2024 at 6:58 a.m. In their first spring training 70 years ago, the Orioles teased fans with a hot...
Local News | Historic Route 40 in Maryland was the setting for some civil rights struggles of the early 1960s By Frederick N. Rasmussen February 13, 2024 at 2:10 p.m. Once the main artery of commerce, the segment of Route 40 that passes through Maryland,...