Jean Marbella

Football deaths As the heat index rose into the mid-90s Aug. 5, the air-conditioning failed at Hopewell High School in Virginia, and classes would be cancelled the following day.

“Traditionally, the courts have given tremendous deference to the military when it says what it needs,” he said. “It is very possible the Supreme Court will uphold the use of race as one of the criteria for admissions.

An attorney for the U.S. Naval Academy said Monday that the elite military school should continue using race and ethnicity in admissions, because it was not where it needed to be in building a diverse student body.

One year later, the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel: Baltimore Jewish and Muslim communities seek healing

Imam Earl El-Amin of the Muslim Community Cultural Center in West Baltimore said, “The only answer is love and reconciliation so that people can coexist together in peace.”

The blaze was just the latest blow to Lakeside Homes, a tired, 47-year-old complex beset both by problems in its 303 apartments but also by its owner's multiple legal and financial woes.

The fire at Lakeside Homes at Holiday Heights in Lansdowne on Oct. 6 was caused by unattended cooking, Baltimore County police and fire officials said Tuesday.

Having missed its most recent deadline and fallen short on eight of 10 main provisions of an agreement to overhaul its health care system, the Baltimore City Booking and Intake Center received another two years from a federal judge on Friday.

Since fire, troubled Lansdowne apartments have made progress on long needed repairs, HUD says

One boy was 8 when he and his siblings entered foster care. While they were ultimately adopted, he cycled for more than six years through psychiatric hospitals, foster and group homes and finally a hotel, where, “with no relatives willing to care for him … he [expected to] age out of foster care,” according to a court report.