Aaron Gold considers his team at Zeffert and Gold Event Catering a family. His own 90-year-old mother still prepares the soups, sauces and hummus for bar and bat mitzvahs, weddings and corporate functions the company caters.
But once the coronavirus pandemic hit and a state of emergency put the...
Between his long hours sleeping and her fitful searches for answers online, his forcing down meals he couldn’t taste and her cleaning, cooking and caring for him as best she could, there was the constant, unrelenting worry — gnawing at them for days as they hunkered down in their Baltimore apartment,...
With confirmed cases of the new coronavirus found in over 80 nursing homes across the state, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan issued an emergency order Sunday aimed at curbing the spread of the illness in such facilities, many of which have been ravaged by similar outbreaks across the country.
Per the...
All officers assigned to the Baltimore Police Department’s Southwest District were ordered to self-quarantine after an officer tested positive for the coronavirus. Within a day, department officials confirmed six officers and two other employees tested had positive.
In a news release Sunday, the...
The manager of Lee’s Pint & Shell in Canton said he has taken steps to reduce the crowds outside the restaurant after people on social media posted photos of people gathering in close proximity to one another.
The oyster and bourbon bar in Canton had been the subject of criticism on Facebook after...
The Johns Hopkins University student government association last week asked the university’s president and the chair of its board of trustees for a partial refund of students’ tuition.
In a letter dated March 31 from the Johns Hopkins Student Government Association to university President Ronald...
After a brief suspension due to the new coronavirus outbreak, the Baltimore City Council will reconvene remotely Monday.
The board did not meet as scheduled March 23 due to the growing pandemic. Maryland remains under a stay-at-home order, and City Hall is closed to the public.
Last month, Democratic...
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3:25 p.m.: Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Sunday issued an emergency order aimed at limiting the spread of the coronavirus in nursing homes, many of which have been ravaged by outbreaks in the state and across the country.
Among the measures, nursing home staff who interact with...
A federal judge declined to order the release of two people from immigration detention facilities in Maryland after their lawyers argued that they are at a high risk of death or serious illness from a coronavirus infection.
But U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang said he would quickly consider...
Confirmed cases of coronavirus in Maryland have increased to at least 3,609 Sunday, with the death toll now at 67, officials said.
Maryland added 484 cases and 14 deaths since Saturday. Almost 25,000 people have tested negative for COVID-19 and 936 have been hospitalized.
Sixteen additional confirmed...
One son has pursued an interest in the Civil War, while his twin brother learned some computer programming and their younger sister researched Madam C.J. Walker, the self-made hair-care millionaire.
The Boldon siblings may be out of school, but they are still learning, their mom says.
“The school...
Gov. Larry Hogan has declared a statewide “moment of prayer and reflection” at noon today to honor the people who have died from COVID-19, commonly known as the coronavirus, as well as the medical workers and first responders tackling the ongoing outbreak.
In a proclamation signed by the governor,...
At least 53 people have died in Maryland of the coronavirus since the pandemic began.
One of them was David Michael Dudley Sr., a 61-year-old Windsor Mill resident who died March 31. His son said he was previously healthy aside from needing medication for high blood pressure.
Mr. Dudley loved few...
The 24-year-old man who was shot to death early Saturday in Baltimore’s Federal Hill neighborhood was hosting a “game night” party and streaming on Facebook Live when his attacker scaled a fence, according to a review of the video and a woman who attended the party.
Ernest Wilson III was shot about...
Until early March, Hizbawi Kiros worked as a valet at Sinai Hospital. He’s happiest when interacting with people who need his help, so he liked the job, which he’d held for almost three years.
But when Sinai created a drive-up COVID-19 testing center on the parking lot where Kiros worked, his bosses...
