The city’s response to her finding that 136 solid waste workers have no health insurance reflects “an entrenched culture,” says Baltimore Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming.

Councilman Mark Conway’s bill would prohibit new crematoriums from being operated near residential areas – and might just block a controversial one in a Baltimore neighborhood.

A major factor in swaying the library’s board of directors in Chad Helton’s favor was his redemptive life story, Board Chair Christine Espenshade says.

Keeping the mayor informed of all agency interactions with reporters is a prime concern, an in-house memo says.

The new standard takes effect two months after the death of Ron Silver II, a Baltimore sanitation worker who collapsed on a woman’s doorstep, begging for water.

The credits saved the county executive $12,649 in property taxes on his newly built home at Millers Island. No special treatment was given, Olszewski’s press secretary says.

It takes a lot of nerve for Councilman Costello and the mayor to attack a judge and the many serious people who believe the waterfront apartment tower plan is bad for the Inner Harbor. [OP-ED] ...

Approved trips include a journey to Boston to challenge her uncle’s involvement in her grandmother’s estate and a New York City speaking engagement for a ministry that focuses on formerly incarcerated ...

Shen reported for The Baltimore Evening Sun in the late 1980s and then for 17 years was a staff writer for The Washington Post. An award-winning writer on The Post’s Metro staff, she covered Maryland ...