Category: Baltimore News

With the primary election for Baltimore City State’s Attorney less than a year away, the city’s current top prosecutor took to the streets to address the crime rates in the city. Gregg Bernstein stood amidst a crime-ridden neighborhood in east Baltimore, at the corner of East Preston and Ensor streets at a July 30 news […]

Police have arrested a third suspect for the shooting of a 16-month-old toddler in Baltimore. Rashid Mayo, 22, was arrested more than 1,100 miles from Baltimore in an apartment in Ruston, La., two months after the May 24 shooting. According to police, Mayo is one of three men involved in a double shooting in the […]

The exact causes behind the death of a man who struggled with Baltimore police following a traffic stop remains unclear, with authorities declining to release information in the case. Tyrone West, 44, died following a struggle with Baltimore police officers on July 18. “The autopsy hasn’t been released yet,” said Baltimore police spokesperson Detective Vernon […]

A Baltimore woman was charged Aug. 2 for poisoning her two grandchildren, a five-month-old girl and one-year-old boy, by rubbing methadone on their gums. The male toddler was killed by “methadone intoxication” according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Towanda Reaves, 50, has been charged with second degree murder, child abuse resulting in […]

(Updated 8/2/2013) Baltimore City school board member Anthony A. Hamilton submitted his letter of resignation Aug. 1 after several inconsistencies were disclosed about his personal and professional background. According to Baltimore NBC affiliate WBAL-TV, Hamilton used another man’s academic record to produce false credentials. “As a result of Mr. Hamilton’s actions and claims we are […]

A federal jury on July 24 convicted Daren Kareem Gadsden, aka “D,” 36, of Upper Marlboro, for conspiring to steal almost $1.4 million from a Baltimore City Housing Authority bank account, according to a statement by U. S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein and other officials. “Daren Gadsden stole from the […]

As the new school year approaches, students from Baltimore to the Hampton Roads region of Virginia remember David Tolulope Esan, the Hampton University freshman who drowned in a campus swimming pool during a school-sponsored celebration in March. Esan, 17, a graduate of Western School of Technology and Environmental Science in Baltimore County, was attending a […]

Maryland’s Open Meetings Compliance Board ruled on July 29 that Baltimore’s board of finance violated transparency laws by holding a closed meeting to approve $100 million in city issued bonds for the Harbor Point’s $1.8 billion development initiative. The Open Meeting Compliance Board is an independent state run agency housed in the State’s Attorney’s Office. […]

As Detroit, Mich. lurched into the biggest municipal financial bankruptcy in American history, mostly from an estimated $3.5 billion in immediate debt it couldn’t pay to current and future retirees, the question in Baltimore and countless other U.S. cities is blunt– and fretful: Could it happen here? Yes, according to municipal finance experts. But Baltimore […]

One East Baltimore pastor has taken matters into his own hands and is staging funerals in an attempt to show young adults what it means to take a life. Amidst the spasm of street violence that seems to grip the city, Pastor Drew Kyndall Ross, of Resurrection Church, led his first simulated funeral, on July […]

Three days past her due date, a Baltimore mother-to-be gave birth in the front seat of her SUV to her second child, while she and her husband attempted to make it to the hospital in the early hours of July 27. Wendy and Gerard Talley, both 32, were enjoying a typical Friday evening at their […]

Baltimore police July 25 arrested Capone Chase, 19, less than a week after naming the suspect “public enemy number one” for the execution-style shooting death of Ramon Rodriguez, 21. Chase was arrested without incident in the 1500 block of Pennsylvania Avenue in the early morning hours, police said. Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said public response […]