Category: Baltimore News

Union workers gathered in front of Baltimore city hall on July 17 to protest a proposed $107 million tax deal for the development of the Harbor Point project on a portion of the city’s waterfront. More than 100 protesters from UNITE HERE and United Workers gathered with signs calling for a new development model in […]

(Updated 7/19/2013) A man died in police custody following a struggle with officers in northeast Baltimore on the evening of July 18, officials said. At the scene, Deputy Commissioner Jerry Rodriguez said northeast district police stopped a vehicle in the 1300 block of Kitmore Rd. for a traffic violation. While investigating the vehicle for drugs, […]

A 16-year-old Baltimore girl was found dead with her throat cut in the early morning hours of July 19 in an incident that police said may be connected to a suicide elsewhere in the city. Shortly before 1 a.m., city police responded to the 3100 block of Liberty Heights Ave. in northwest Baltimore after receiving […]

Baltimore City Councilman Nick Mosby was among those honored during a White House visit July 10 by first lady Michelle Obama for his support of her campaign against childhood obesity. “It felt amazing to receive an invitation, not just from the First Lady, but just to be invited to go to the White House,” Mosby […]

Baltimore police have arrested a man they believe may be linked to as many as four shootings that left a total of seven people injured in less than a week in the city’s Harlem Park neighborhood in early July. Lamont Jones, 29, of West Baltimore, was taken into custody July 14 in connection with the […]

Darryl Anderson, who police say shot three women–killing 20-year-old Gennie Shird– in a June 27 assault staged on a Baltimore front porch, was tracked down in Alabama by a team of federal marshals and arrested July 16. Anderson, 25, who was considered armed and dangerous and had been dubbed “Public Enemy Number One” in connection […]

Baltimore – Students and faculty from the School of Architecture and Planning have been invited for the third straight year to participate and exhibit an environmental installation for Artscape. The project, titled Destination 1 is a music pavilion and DJ dome inspired by the visionary ideas of Buckminster Fuller. A forefather of the modern sustainability […]

Minority vendors were awarded more than $340 million in contracts to supply utilities in the state, the Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) announced July 9. During the PSC daylong hearing, utility companies told PSC commissioner Harold Williams that not only did they meet their goal they exceeded their target for diversity contracts. “It’s commendable that […]

The Baltimore Branch NAACP will be hailed as one of the NAACP’s top local units when the nation’s oldest civil right gathers for the annual convention in Orlando, Fla, the NAACP said July 12. The branch is to receive the prestigious 2013 Thalheimer Award, the NAACP’s top award to given to branches and units for […]

Baltimore police issued a warrant for the arrest of Darryl Anderson, 25, in the June 27 triple shooting in the 3300 block of Elmora Ave, in which 21-year-old Gennie Shird was killed. Anderson, reportedly a Black Guerrilla Family (BGF) gang member, faces charges of first-degree murder, attempted murder, various assault charges and weapons charges. According […]