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Mike Klingaman

A magazine and sports enterprise reporter for The Baltimore Sun, Mike Klingaman writes human-interest stories and historical profiles. A native of Catonsville, he was one of three finalists for the 1985 Pulitzer Prize in Specialized Reporting.

Retro Baltimore: Maryland’s response to Pearl Harbor attack, start of war

December 10, 2024 at 11:32 a.m.

At the University of Maryland at College Park, President H.C. Byrd advised men on campus to "go to your classes normally and do your routine work — but do it...

From left, Jennifer Dresner, Richard Vook, Teresa Stubbs Vook, Richard Michael Vook and Kim Miller, ..who work for RequiTest Inc., a government contractor based in Ellicott City. (Karl Merton Ferron/Staff)

No. 1 small Top Workplace 2024: RequiTest is a cutting-edge software development firm with a small but loyal workforce

December 6, 2024 at 7:00 a.m.

Employees pay that underwhelming presence no mind. At RequiTest, there's little turnover in personnel; the company boasts an annual retention rate of at least 90% in recent years.

11042 Greenspring Ave. is a three-story home in Lutherville Timonium. (courtesy of Krauss Real Property Brokerage)

Hot property: 7.5-acre Baltimore County estate is a sports lover’s paradise

December 5, 2024 at 7:40 a.m.

Address: 11042 Greenspring Ave., Lutherville Timonium 21093 List price: $8,500,000 Year built: 2018 Real estate agent: Heidi Krauss, of Krauss Real Property Brokerage Last sold price/date: Acreage sold for $2,180,000...

Barnaby Wickham has made giant holiday wreaths out of hubcaps that he has picked up on roadsides while riding his bike around Baltimore. He has one of them hanging on his home in Baltimore. (Lloyd Fox/ Staff)

Roadside trash to treasure: Baltimore cyclist builds 12-foot wreath from 330 hubcaps

November 28, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Strings of clear lights decorate Wickham's wreath, a melange of gleaming black and silver hubcaps bearing the emblems of all kinds of cars — Toyota, Ford, Honda, Nissan, Chevrolet and...

Warren Manufacturing Company store and Main Street, 1908. The mill town was demolished 1922 -1923 to make way for Loch Raven Reservoir to build the upper dam. Rickety wooden steps left middle distance lead from the dirt road to the store's porch. The stone George Clatterbuck house is on the west side of Main Street, across from the store. (Baltimore County Public Library)

Retro Baltimore: The flooded town of Warren, Baltimore’s own Lost City of Atlantis

October 29, 2024 at 5:03 a.m.

Flooded by engineers a century ago to boost drinking water for the city, the town of Warren today is an afterthought, if recalled at all, by Baltimore County residents.

Nine Tailed Fox, the Chinese restaurant, due to open in The Village of Cross Keys in the spring of 2025. (Courtesy)

Atlas Restaurant Group announces name and chef for Cross Keys Chinese restaurant

October 15, 2024 at 2:45 p.m.

Jeffrey Mei, a longtime cuisinier who has managed kitchens from New York to Texas, has been named executive chef at the Nine Tailed Fox, the Chinese restaurant due to open...

The Orioles swept the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1966 World Series. Baltimore's 33 straight scoreless innings pitched in that Fall Classic is an MLB postseason record that this year's Dodgers team tied. (Baltimore Sun file)

Dodgers and Orioles share postseason record of 33 straight scoreless innings pitched

October 14, 2024 at 8:48 p.m.

The buzz surrounding the streak harked back to the 1966 World Series, a four-game sweep for an underdog Orioles team that swept the Dodgers.

Alisha and her husband Frank Williams. Alisha has a cousin, Ryan Carter, who lives in the Tampa area with his wife, Casey. Ryan is a disabled veteran and couldn't get into a hospital before Hurricane Milton arrived. As a result of his not being admitted to the hospital and the special needs emergency program, Ryan and Casey stayed in their home during the hurricane with a friend from Baltimore who flew in to help them. (Kim Hairston/Staff)

Marylanders with Florida connections say Milton: ‘Like something out of a disaster movie’

October 11, 2024 at 8:53 a.m.

As Hurricane Milton approached the Gulf Coast Wednesday, The Sun asked readers to let us know about their connections to Florida and what worried them most.

Hospitals in Maryland, around US move to conserve IV fluids amid hurricane disruptions

October 9, 2024 at 7:35 p.m.

Hospitals in Maryland and elsewhere are taking steps to conserve intravenous fluids that have been in short supply since Hurricane Helene flooded a key North Carolina production plant.

Evelyn Harlee was one of first six women to graduate from Baltimore Polytechnic after the school went coed in 1974. (Karl Merton Ferron/Staff)

Baltimore Polytechnic enrolled first female students 50 years ago

October 9, 2024 at 7:00 a.m.

Fifty years ago, Baltimore Polytechnic went coed. In September 1974, a handful of female students paved the way.

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