WASHINGTON – With the aid of lawmakers, seafood businesses in Maryland, Virginia, Alaska and North Carolina last month won federal approval of an additional 35,000 visas for non-immigrant workers, but the timing couldn’t have been worse. Within days, the coronavirus…
Maryland high school athletes lose vital time during pandemic
Several high school athletes are losing vital time to get recruited by college coaches, as well as missing out on senior milestones.
In the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, a Van Gogh was swiped from a Dutch museum
The stolen work, “The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring 1884,” is an oil painting Van Gogh created when he was 30 years old, only six years before his death in 1890.
Annapolis theaters share financial and cancelation concerns as COVID-19 spreads
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Annapolis theaters and stage performers are struggling to keep afloat with financial concerns and show practices.
Extremists trying to take advantage of coronavirus crisis to recruit
White supremacists across the nation are attempting to capitalize on the crisis to take advantage of the scared and confused in hopes of recruiting new followers.
As coronavirus spreads in Washington region’s prisons, families and advocates seek action
The number of coronavirus cases inside correctional facilities across Maryland, the District of Columbia and Virginia are rising, while inmates, staff and their families grow more concerned.
Examining the “second book slump” among authors of young adult novels
Many readers have read a book series in which the quality seemed to decrease overtime. In an effort to examine the validity of this trend, CNS looked at data from Goodreads.com users average ratings of popular young adult fiction series.
COVID-19 forces programs to adapt to feed hungry in Maryland
Government programs, food banks and nonprofit organizations aiding people who struggle to put food on the table have had to adapt to the novel coronavirus pandemic, and they say stress levels have moved beyond typical levels.
Coronavirus roundup: Deaths pass 6,500, jobless rate rises, other developments
WASHINGTON — There are now 257,773 cases of the coronavirus and 6,574 deaths due to the pandemic in the United States as of Friday afternoon, according to John Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering data dashboard. The White…
An American stranded in Europe by the COVID-19 pandemic: a personal story
On March 17, six days from my expected return to New York, I was alerted that my flight with Norwegian Airlines was cancelled.