Category: Baltimore News

Larry Jeter, the owner of Dimensions In Music – a record store located on Park Avenue in downtown Baltimore – has agreed to provide product shelf space to the vocal, songwriting and dance winners of the 2014 Baltimore “Uplifting Minds II” (ULMII) national talent competition. The competition is part of a free one-day entertainment conference […]

For more than 25,000 Maryland residents, this holiday season was filled with the uncertainty of what’s to come after their extended Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) benefits ended. They are among more than a million Americans who lost their federal unemployment benefits Dec. 28 because Congress did not renew the extended benefits created to buffer the […]

BALTIMORE — Students at Wide Angle Youth Media, which runs after-school programs, could have chosen any issue as the subject of their project a couple of years back. But the teenagers decided they wanted to spend the year working on media campaign to improve school attendance by improving bus service. The bus figures large in […]

(Updated 12/30/2013) Members of the Northeast Baltimore community were awakened by the sound of sirens in the early morning hours of Dec. 27 as the Baltimore City Fire Department responded to a four-alarm blaze on the corner of Loch Raven Boulevard and Cold Spring Lane. Emergency crews confronted flames pouring out of the Northwood-Appold United […]

The Community College of Baltimore County was among 10 finalists chosen by the Community College Futures Assembly as it issued its call for Legacy Award nominations. The Legacy award application criteria included only former bellwether finalist programs that are able to illustrate five years of program effectiveness. The Legacy award is sponsored by the Association […]

The National MS Society, Maryland Chapter, has announced the honorees for its 2014 Dinner of Champions. Dr. E. Albert Reece, OJ Brigance and Dave Pietramala will receive the Champion of Hope award at the 21st Annual Dinner of Champions, Feb. 22, 2014 at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront. The Dinner of Champions is held annually to […]

None of the officers involved in the death of Tyrone West will face criminal charges because they were using “objectively reasonable force” to subdue a subject who was resisting arrest, the state’s attorney’s office and the Baltimore City Police Department announced Dec. 19. “We have concluded that there is no evidence to support the filing […]

Young actor Anthony Michael Hobbs stars as Samuel Wise in the Nolan Williams Jr. holiday musical presentation, “Christmas Gift!,” held recently at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center located on the University of Maryland campus. Hobbs also appears in the Holiday campaign for Finish Line athletic chain, the second largest athletic chain in the U. […]

It took perhaps an extraordinary entrepreneurial leap of faith in 2010 to open the doors of Jody Davis Designs, a woman’s boutique at 110 W. Saratoga Street in the midst of the country’s worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. “Business, it’s still challenging – up and down – but, I’m still thankful to continue […]

Strathmore celebrates gospel music with three local award-winning choirs preserving and spreading the rich, jubilant and reverent tradition of the genre in Make a Joyful Noise: Best of Maryland Gospel, 8 p.m., Feb. 8 in the Music Center. The voices of the James E. Jordan Jr. Adult Choir, the Tribe of Judah Choir and Baltimore […]

Authorities took a giant step toward abating crime in the violence-steeped community of Cherry Hill in south Baltimore this week when they announced indictments against alleged members of competing gangs in the area. A federal grand jury, in three separate indictments, charged 26 individuals on racketeering conspiracy, drug conspiracy and other drug-related charges based on […]

Last year it was legendary linebacker Ray Lewis who announced in December that he would be retiring after 17 years with the Baltimore Ravens. This year the Ravens will lose another life-long member of the organization. Mishael Miller has sung the National Anthem for just about every Ravens’ home game since the team was founded […]