NEWS
By Kevin Rector, The Baltimore Sun | August 25, 2014
Commuters entering Baltimore from the south on Monday morning found themselves in a massive traffic jam amid widespread confusion about how to navigate a new construction pattern, in part due to a failure by the Maryland Transportation Authority to update signage about the change. "It was way, way, way beyond anything I have seen," said Tamory Winfield, a MdTA spokesman, of the traffic problems on northbound Interstate 95. Crews are rushing to fix the issues before the afternoon rush hour, which will include a northbound influx of fans headed to tonight's Orioles game, he said.
BUSINESS
By Natalie Sherman, The Baltimore Sun | August 19, 2014
Ocean City's planning and zoning commission is scheduled to meet tonight about the possibility of banning short-term rental properties in some residential neighborhoods. The meeting was prompted by complaints from year-round residents in Mallard Island, an upscale community of single-family homes on the bay. The idea has also generated concern that a change will hurt investment by other property owners, who rely on rental income to subsidize maintenance and other costs. The commission is looking at the possibility of changing the rules for property owners in single-family neighborhoods considered R-1, including Mallard Island, Caine Woods, Montego Bay and Little Salisbury.
SPORTS
By Alejandro Zuniga and The Baltimore Sun | July 9, 2014
In an emergency, left-hander Wei-Yin Chen could pitch out of the bullpen for the Orioles tonight against the Washington Nationals at Camden Yards, manager Buck Showalter said in his pregame news conference. Right-hander Bud Norris will make his first start for the club tonight since returning from the 15-day disabled list, but if the appearance is cut short, the Orioles could turn to Chen in order to preserve their bullpen. Chen hasn't started since Thursday against the Texas Rangers, when he went six innings and gave up two earned runs.
SPORTS
By Alejandro Zuniga and The Baltimore Sun | July 3, 2014
Orioles right-hander Bud Norris, on the 15-day disabled list with a strained right groin, is “still in play” to start Monday against the Washington Nationals, manager Buck Showalter said in his news conference before Thursday's game against the Texas Rangers. Norris will take pitcher's fielding practice this afternoon and will toss either a bullpen session or a simulated game Friday. The right-hander said he hasn't had any further setbacks to his injury, and that he anticipates feeling healthy enough to start Monday, the earliest he can return from the disabled list.
NEWS
By Jessica Anderson, The Baltimore Sun | June 30, 2014
A candlelight vigil will be held Monday night for a man who was fatally shot outside his mother's Windsor Mill home last week. Residents in the Barkley Woods townhomes plan to meet at 7:30 p.m. in the 3600 block of Derby Shire Circle, where police said Danard George Norris, 25, was shot multiple times outside his mother's home shortly after midnight early Friday. "Our neighborhood is still pretty shaken up so that's why we are all coming together," said vigil organizer Alethea Watkins.
SPORTS
By Ryan Bacic, The Baltimore Sun | June 5, 2014
For the first two months of her Western High gym class, special education teacher LaDonna Schemm didn't notice. Then a freshman, the ever-bubbly Joy Keene-El would get out of her wheelchair and do everything thrown her way, from tennis to baseball to swimming. One day, when the physical fitness test came around, she did 61 pushups. But eventually an activity came that Keene-El said she couldn't do. And so an incredulous Schemm asked why not. "Look," Keene-El said, hoisting a pant leg. "I don't have any knees.