Politics
When Baltimore sent Kurt Schmoke to City Hall 12 years ago, it became the last of the nation’s predominantly black cities to elect a black mayor in hopes of reversing urban decay.
Sept. 2, 1999
Sports
On just about any score card, Orioles Park at Camden Yards is a home run.
July 11, 1993
World & Nation
Oprah had come to town and that meant trouble. Because why else would she come to town?
Dec. 4, 1988
At the Harlem Park Elementary School here, in a poverty-ravaged area of the nation’s 13th-largest city, they are waiting for the promised benefits of a novel effort to turn around low-achieving schools.
Dec. 22, 1992
The police chief of Baltimore’s public school system has been placed on administrative leave as officials investigate a cellphone video that shows a uniformed officer slapping a young man.
March 2, 2016
It’s called the House of Mara, and it’s a house divided, and in New York they’re wondering if a Super Bowl win would resolve the differences between the feuding owners of the New York Giants.
Jan. 11, 1987
The city of Baltimore plans to pay Freddie Gray’s family $6.4 million as a settlement for civil claims in his arrest and death — an extraordinary payment in a claim against the police department.
Sept. 8, 2015
The mayor activated an emergency headquarters, the city school system warned students against violence and even the Obama administration asked for calm Monday as Baltimore began the wait for a verdict in the first trial of a police officer in the Freddie Gray case.
Dec. 15, 2015
California
Twenty-three years ago, parts of Los Angeles looked something like Baltimore has in the last week, only more so.
April 28, 2015
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, beleaguered by the death of Freddie Gray and the protests and rioting that followed, announced Friday she won’t seek re-election.
Sept. 11, 2015