News in Greater Baltimore Area


  • 'Massive fraud' nets plea of guilty - Md. man, former donor to GOP, could get 30 years in multimillion-dollar, years-long scheme

    Alan B. Fabian, a Maryland entrepreneur, philanthropist and former Republican fundraiser, pleaded guilty yesterday in Baltimore federal court to a multiyear scheme that the government says defrauded banks and businesses of at least $32 million.
  • 1968, 2008: 'Wars don't die' - Survivors of Catonsville Nine mark anniversary with a protest

    Forty years ago today, nine Catholic men and women - three of them priests - walked into a military draft office in Catonsville and seized the records of hundreds of young men likely to be summoned to fight in Vietnam.
  • Pimlico abuzz over 'Brown' - Top pick for Preakness regarded as total package

    Like any good prom king, he arrived fashionably late and seemed completely comfortable when every eye turned his way.
  • U.S. will triple port security grants for Md. - The federal government will more than triple its grant funding this year for port security in Maryland, providing money for a state-of-the-art video surveillance system and technology to help monitor the thousands of trucks that enter the port of Baltimore each day.