It is another day without heat or hot water for many people living in Southwest Baltimore after construction crews hit a natural gas main in the area.

The Baltimore Sun hosted its inaugural Newsmakers Forum tonight, with Gov. Martin O'Malley as the featured guest. Opinion Editor Andy Green conducted an hourlong interview with the governor. Read the chat transcript or watch the video.

ANNAPOLIS | A Senate committee will hear testimony Thursday on a bill that would require random drug testing for state residents receiving food stamps or government cash assistance. Sen. J.B. Jennings, Baltimore County Republican, is sponsoring the bill, which he says would help reduce cases of food-stamp fraud by detecting ...

The Baltimore FBI office has received a large number of phone calls concerning e-mails that are supposedly from the FBI Director, the Special Agent in Charge or other top Bureau officials that aren't really from them.

The Baltimore Sun hosts its inaugural Newsmakers Forum at 7 tonight, with Gov. Martin O'Malley as the featured guest. Submit a question for the governor and follow the event via our live chat and streaming video.

Baltimore City Police have arrested about 12 middle school students following a large fight this afternoon.

In a famous essay about crime and the British press , George Orwell identified the kinds of murder cases that excited the news media and titillated the public. The victims, he wrote, tended to be middle-class; the alleged perpetrators were seemingly respectable members of the community; the motives were typically sexual or romantic in nature. And none of the cases was open and shut, leaving ...

Going into the 2012 NFL Draft, the Baltimore Ravens top priorities are at the center, guard and linebacker positions. At all three positions the Ravens have players that will likely be gone soon whether that be through retirement or free agency. Sure there are solutions in free agency that could provide quick fixes, But it can provide a ton more security to draft a player that could potentially ...

The lecture hall is under attack. Science, math and engineering departments at many universities are abandoning or retooling the lecture as a style of teaching, worried that it’s driving students away. Read full article >>

Before last season, as the Baltimore Ravens were redesigning their offense around Joe Flacco, I wrote that Jared Gaither was the key to that rebuilding process . While Ozzie Newsome is a brilliant general manager with a proven track record including a Super Bowl ring, no person in the NFL , whether it be player, coach or personnel manager, is perfect. Newsome made a mistake by not giving Jared ...