NEWS
By Jessica Anderson, The Baltimore Sun | May 27, 2013
They left the Maryland Historical Society tucked inside the coat pockets and notebooks of Barry Landau and his assistant, but the historical documents returned in manila envelopes, neatly packed inside a gray cardboard file box. Authorities continue to reunite more than 10,000 items "of cultural heritage" to museums and libraries along the East Coast that were targeted by Landau and his assistant Jason Savedoff. This month the Maryland Historical Society has received about one-third of 60 documents stolen.
NEWS
By Theresa Sintetos, The Baltimore Sun | March 1, 2013
The U.S. Postal Service issued an illustration of a bank swallow by Maryland artist Matt Frey Friday as a stamped envelope, the second in a four-part series of swallows by Frey commissioned by the organization. The bird is the smallest swallow in North America, and adorns the seventh stamped envelope issued by the Post Office this year. A Baltimore native, Frey graduated from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts with a degree in illustration in 1996. He has done illustrations for Discover Magazine, National Geographic Magazine and the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, among others.
EXPLORE
October 20, 2011
Opening the envelope at an awards show is the suspenseful buildup to the announcement of a winner: best picture, top dog, most original costume or whatever. The only winners if the development envelope, Harford County's chief planning tool, is opened are likely to be a few well-positioned developers. It's been 14 years since Harford County expanded the territory it regards as prime for development, and that territory still includes a fairly substantial amount of land prime for building.
NEWS
By David Zurawik and The Baltimore Sun | October 11, 2011
Nobody does investigative journalism on TV like Public Television's "Frontline" -- nobody, and that includes "60 Minutes. " And Tuesday night at 9, the venerable series revisits Ft. Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, and the case of anthrax researcher Bruce Ivins who killed himself in 2008 as the FBI zeroed in on him as its prime suspect in the case of deadly envelopes of anthrax sent through the mail. According to this hard-edged report done in partnership with McClatchy Newspapers and Propublica, the FBI did more than zero in. Under tremendous pressure to solve the case that started in 2001 with anthrax mailed to U.S. senators and network anchors, the agency squeezed Ivins hard -- using every trick in the book to get a confession out of him even as he insisted on his innocence to the end. Ivins was a troubled guy with some distinctive kinks, the report acknowledges, but even FBI consultants in the case now admit that the agency overstated its evidence and never found a smoking gun to prove the researcher's guilt.
NEWS
By Nick Madigan, The Baltimore Sun | December 22, 2010
At the foot of the altar in the cavernous church, six coffins — three of them child-sized and all but one white — lay in a semicircle, surrounded by a forest of flowers. Photographs of the dead sat atop each casket, along with balloons and stuffed toys. Hundreds of mourners packed the pews Wednesday, seeking solace in song and prayer as they remembered six members of a family who perished when their house burst into flames on a frigid night last week. Sobs pierced the hymns and chants.
BUSINESS
By Andrea K. Walker, The Baltimore Sun | May 10, 2010
Manufacturer Oles Envelope Corp. in Baltimore has been bought by a Virginia rival, but will maintain most of the current workers and operations, the companies announced Monday. Double Envelope of Roanoke, Va., closed on its acquisition of Oles, which employs about 115 people, on April 27. The name of the plant will eventually be changed to that of the new company, said John Draper, vice president of sales at Double Envelope. Top management will lose their jobs, but most of the other workers will be retained, Draper said.