Category: Baltimore News

BALTIMORE, MD – For the past two weeks, people have been voting to name the first two penguin chicks of the 2014 breeding season at The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore.  Voting ended this weekend with 909 out of 2,400 votes being cast for Dawn and Hope!  Dawn is named in honor of the dishwashing detergent […]

Baltimore activist Tawanda Jones WBFF Fox 45 News has found itself embroiled in controversy after reporting that Baltimore activist Tawanda Jones called for the death of police officers in an apparent rush to sensationalize a week-old protest against police brutality and capitalize on the killing of two police officers in New York City by Ismaaiyl […]

Hecht’s (Updated 12/23/2014) Once upon a Christmas in a time and place far far away there were four grand department stores Hutzler’s, Hecht’s, Hochschild’s and Stewart’s. For more than one hundred years these stores were for the loyal White shoppers of Ye ‘ole Baltimore. Hochschild’s They were the crown jewels of an era of the […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u We’ll talk crime and policing in Baltimore, including the mistrial declared in the second trial in the 2010 murder of North Carolina teen Phylicia Barnes. And Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, a think tank and political action committee is calling for an apology from the Baltimore County Fraternal Order […]

Sofiya, a 6-year-old Amur leopard. BALTIMORE, MD-– The Maryland Zoo today welcomed Sofiya, an Amur leopard, one of the rarest cat species in the world.  Sofiya is a 6-year-old Amur leopard born at the St Louis Zoological Park, in Missouri. Over the course of her life she lived at The Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo and Connecticut’s […]

Royal Farms Arena BALTIMORE – In its year-end issues, Venues Today and Billboard Magazine distinguishes SMG managed Royal Farms Arena among the top venues for 2014. Venues Today names the Arena #1 in the United States among buildings 10,001 – 15,000 and #8 internationally. Billboard Magazine, long known as the leading industry trade publication names […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u We recap this past weekend’s horrific events in New York, where two NYPD officers were “assassinated” by a mentally deranged man (who first shot his girlfriend just outside of Baltimore) before committing suicide. What are the implications for the ongoing debate about reform in the criminal justice system and […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — Authorities say they’ve broken up a violent, multistate dog-fighting ring involving hundreds of dogs forced into brutal combat. Authorities said Monday that a Baltimore grand jury returned indictments against 22 people involved in the ring, 14 of whom are in custody. They’re all charged with animal cruelty, dog fighting and conspiracy. The […]

The suspect, 28-year-old Ismaaiyl Brinsley (bottom left) and the weapon the suspect used to killed NYPD police officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos. (AP Photo/New York Police Department) TOWSON, Md. (AP) — Authorities in Maryland are identifying a woman who was shot by the same man who killed two NYPD officers before shooting himself to […]

Harriet Tubman (Photo Courtesy of www.nps.gov/) ANNAPOLIS, MD (December 19, 2014) — Governor Martin O’Malley today issued a statement on the signing of legislation by President Barack Obama that honors the contributions and preserves the legacy of Harriet Tubman. A Maryland native and one of the Underground Railroad’s most famous conductors, Harriet Tubman made historic advancements […]

A retired Baltimore City police officer has stirred up controversy for posting a allegedly racist and derogatory photo on Facebook. On Dec.16, WJZ-TV, Baltimore’s CBS affiliate, reported that a former city cop posted a picture of African-American men on top of a car protesting in Ferguson, Mo., over the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u A local political round table on the issues of the week with the AFRO’s Roberto Alejandro and Fox 45 investigative producer Stephen Janis. Plus, we’ll discuss President Obama’s historic decision to normalize relations between the United States and Cuba. All coming up this evening on AFRO’s First Edition with […]