Category: Baltimore News

Sabrina Nicole Fitts, age 29, of Baltimore, Maryland, was sentenced Dec. 20 to a one-month prison term, eight months of home detention and 250 hours of community service after pleading guilty to failing to file currency transaction reports on suspected proceeds of illegal drug dealing by U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar. Bredar also ordered […]

The Baltimore Farmers’ Market and Bazaar wraps up its 36th season with options for holiday shoppers. During the holiday season, market-goers can purchase everything needed for festive meals including the region’s freshest apples, pears, citrus fruit, sweet potatoes, greens, honey, nuts, turkeys, goat and other meats, fish, dairy, breads and spices. Farmers also offer wreaths, […]

The Rev. Dr. Leon Dunkley has been called as associate minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Silver Spring by the unanimous vote of the congregation. He has served the church as assistant minister since August 2012, joining senior minister, the Rev. Elizabeth Lerner Maclay. A graduate of Starr King School for the Ministry in […]

Please help us to reach out to members of the Greater Baltimore community by sharing our request for volunteers as a public service announcement.  The Dyslexia Tutoring Program’s mission is to teach reading to low-income children and adults with dyslexia or a language-based learning difference at no cost to the student. Our clients are assessed and then […]

The MTA recently rolled out the annual Holiday Bus. Operating on different routes throughout the month of December, the Holiday Bus will make regular stops while in service but passengers will NOT be required to pay the regular fare. The specially decorated bus, complete with Santa and two elves will run Monday through Friday throughout […]

The west Baltimore community is saddened by the sudden death of Father Edward Miller, pastor of St. Bernardine Parish for almost 40 years. He apparently died Dec. 15 after conducting 8 a.m. mass. Services begin 3 p.m., Dec. 18 with a viewing, followed by a wake, 7 p.m., at St. Bernardine Catholic Church, 3800 Edmondson […]

When the Rev. Carl A. Pierce Sr. of Carter Memorial Church first walked into St. Peter the Apostle Church three years ago, he saw the carved angels, a statue of the patron saint standing over the altar and a pipe organ in the balcony. But Pierce also saw something else in the vacated church, he […]

The Baltimore City Health Department suspended Mondawmin area operations for Safe Streets, a community-based program to reduce crime and street violence, after two recent arrests, including the discovery of a loaded handgun and live ammunition in the possession of a Safe Streets worker who is on parole for murder. Safe Streets is a program to […]

ABC News anchor and tenured journalist Byron Pitts will serve as the commencement speaker for Morgan State University’s inaugural December commencement exercises, to be held on December 20 beginning at 10:00 a.m. in the Carl J. Murphy Fine Arts Center. Pitts, a native of Baltimore, MD will address more than 300 graduates in the history-making […]

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland food banks tend to see an influx of families during the holiday season, but this year local pantries are seeing more people in need because of cuts to food stamps. Now, food pantries are counting on donations from the community to keep supplies stocked. “We always see an increase around the holiday,” […]

BALTIMORE – Five years after Jabriera Handy was charged with murdering her own grandmother, the 22-year-old sits on a statewide task force that assesses how criminal offenses committed by juveniles are handled in Maryland. At 16 years old, the slim young woman was accused of killing 69-year-old Eunice Taylor – leading to 11 months in […]

During the last city council meeting for 2013, Councilman Nick Mosby (D-District 7) introduced “Ban the Box,” a bill that would bar prospective employers from asking, in the initial job interview, if a job applicant has a record of criminal arrests or convictions. On Dec. 5, Mosby said omitting the criminal conviction-check for applications and […]