Gathering

It's time for another food truck rally. The Gathering will be held Friday on the parking lot of Stratford University in Little Italy, just a few blocks way from where the very first Baltimore food truck rally was held in June 2011. So far, 19 trucks have confirmed, including these, according to Gathering planner Damian Bohager. Busia's Kitchen Cazbar Chicken 'n' Waffle Cupcake Runners Four Brothers Great Cookie GrrChe Gypsy Queen Iced Gems Jolly Pig Karlita's Kooper's Chowhound Miss Shirley's Miss Twist Noodlerolla Souper Freaks South Carolina BBQ Woody's Taco Island    

Christen Brown won't ever forget the phone call she received just before 4 a.m. June 14 - when she learned her little brother had died after an altercation with a police officer. "I just wouldn't believe it," she said Monday evening at a rally in Towson, describing the phone call from her mother. About 50 members of Christopher Brown's family and community, as well as others, gathered outside the Baltimore County Courts Building to protest what they believe to be preferential treatment of an off-duty officer charged in the 17-year-old's death.

Ravens receiver LaQuan Williams ran 10 yards, cut hard to the right, caught the ball and scored. Except this time Williams added two points to the board, not six. For one of the first times in his career, Williams didn't care much about winning (even though his team won, 111-110). "This is for the kids, it's all for the kids" Williams said of the charity basketball game he hosted at Stevenson University's gymnasium on Saturday . "We just want to come out and give them a good time and a nice show.

The Baltimore Pride Festival was as much political rally as it was party Sunday, with supporters of same-sex marriage galvanizing a base of thousands to attempt to win a looming ballot fight. Dozens of volunteers for both the Marylanders for Marriage Equality coalition and President Barack Obama's re-election campaign spread throughout Druid Hill Park on the final day of Baltimore Pride - the annual celebration of the city's gay and lesbian community - passing out stickers, selling T-shirts, registering voters and enlisting supporters.

For the better part of a decade, Jill Crowther-Peters has portrayed the widowed seamstress who stitched the Star-Spangled Banner, but on Thursday she had the chance to really feel what it was like to be her. Crowther-Peters, dressed as 19th-century flag maker Mary Pickersgill, stopped to savor the moment as she helped darn three threads from the original banner into a 30-foot American flag that flew over Ground Zero in New York after the Sept....

When Lt. Cmdr. Wesley A. Brown was a midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy, he was ostracized, his classmates once trashing his room ahead of an inspection. But the Navy embraced him as a trailblazer in Wednesday funeral services, part of which were held in a field house that bears his name. More than 250 gathered in Annapolis to remember Brown, the sixth black midshipman and the first to graduate. Mourners included top Navy and military officials, the first black female graduate of the academy and the oldest living black graduate of any U.S. military service academy.

Public records show that employees of Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold improperly accessed databases to gather information on at least three people on an "enemies" list, the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland said Tuesday. One of the so-called enemies was Lewis Bracy, a recently retired National Security Agency police officer and community activist who has not previously been associated with Leopold's alleged dossiers, according to the ACLU, which obtained the records through a public information request to the state.

When she heard Mercy Medical Center was going to celebrate National Cancer Survivors Day on Sunday, Megan Campbell knew she had to be there. The doctors and nurses at Mercy are, after all, the reason her two kids got to know their grandmother. The six years since her mother, Priscilla "Jo" Jones, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, Campbell said, have meant the world to her family. At the time, Campbell was pregnant, and she wasn't even sure Jones would see the birth of her first grandchild.

Activists working to repeal Maryland's same-sex marriage law have collected more than twice the signatures needed for a referendum — likely ensuring that the measure will be on the ballot for voters to decide in November. The law's opponents submitted 122,481 signatures in favor of a referendum; 55,736 are required. If enough are verified as legitimate, as expected, Maryland will be in the center of a national debate on same-sex marriage, with groups on both sides preparing to spend millions.

When it was announced that yet another group would be taking on management of the Baltimore Grand Prix, one of the company's funders stepped into the spotlight. Columbia-based financier J.P. Grant III has stayed out of the public eye since the storm of a no-bid city schools contract blew over in 2000. But all the while, his company Grant Capital Management was accumulating city contracts. In 2003, the city granted his company a "master lease," an agreement that speeds up the contracting process, but also made it more difficult for The Sun to track.