“Here lies MOUNTAIN ROSE II ‘An honest, faithful horse who did his best to the end.’ Destroyed Oct. 24, 1924.” Those words paint a small picture of Mountain Rose II and the love his owner and trainer had for him.
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Beyond the Track: The City of Laurel saddles up its businesses for race day
In recent weeks, new signage featuring jockeys racing thoroughbreds adorn the windows of local storefronts with the slogan “Saddle Up, Laurel!”
A year after layoffs, former federal workers are still piecing their lives back together
In Maryland alone, about 29,700 federal jobs disappeared between January 2025 and March 2026 amid a sweeping federal workforce downsizing.
They’ve spent decades at Laurel Park. Now the racetrack may be in its final days
Laurel Park is facing a cloudy future that threatens to fully dismantle Devro Hebron’s weekly routine.
Maryland youth prison hired out Black boys to farmers, factories
Every day, Black boys sorted straw and worked the foot treadle of the broom binding machines in a dim basement, trapped in a tinderbox filled with dust and flying chaff that clouded their lungs. Prisoners of the House of Reformation…
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall once advocated for the Cheltenham boys
When some boys wound up in the House of Reformation for Colored Boys, a juvenile correctional institution for Black boys in Cheltenham, Maryland, they turned to the NAACP for legal help. They found an attorney named Thurgood Marshall. Before joining…
Fingerboard Farm Runs Multiple Businesses to Stay Afloat, even a Cannabis Venture
IJAMSVILLE, MD. – About an hour west of Baltimore, where the city and suburban landscape gives way to Maryland’s rural countryside, visitors can find Fingerboard Farm, an historic landmark in Frederick County that once nurtured fruit orchards. Today, Fingerboard cultivates…
How CNS reported on Cheltenham
Capital News Service reporters investigated Maryland's once-segregated juvenile justice system across two semesters, from fall 2025 through spring 2026, examining the history of the House of Reformation for Colored Boys at Cheltenham alongside the House of Refuge for Juvenile Delinquents,…
Bruce Springsteen tour rails against Trump attacks
Springsteen has never shied away from voicing his political opinions, but his current U.S.-based tour has taken it further.
From student to school board member in less than four years
Less than four years after graduating from the Harford County school system, 22-year-old Liliana Norkaitis is back—and serving on the county’s Board of Education as one of Maryland’s youngest public officials.