Category: Baltimore News

When youth advocate, Ifetayo Kitwala, 14, stood to announce the beginning of the Intersection’s summer gun violence campaign on June 25, she couldn’t help but mention the string of violence from the previous weekend. One incident on Friday, June 21, she said left a man shot in the face and chest just a few feet […]

Dressed in red, white and blue, Marilyn J. Mosby–a West Baltimore-based lawyer and wife of City Councilman Nick Mosby– was joined by city politicians and supporters in front of the Clarence Mitchell Courthouse on June 24 to announce her candidacy for Baltimore city state’s attorney. “I come to you one year–exactly one year from the […]

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake July 1 endorsed Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown’s run for governor, adding her support to the 70 state municipal officials who are embracing the drive to elect Maryland’s first Black chief executive. “I have been thrilled by the track record of leadership that Brown has shown. He understands that Baltimore is an […]

Motivational speaker and author Wes Moore was one of the planters, June 27, when Art with a Heart planted a tree in honor of the author and youth advocate. The planting at the corner of E. Baltimore Street and Montford Avenue was to show their appreciation for Moore, 34, having served as guest speaker at […]

The Baltimore Orioles hosted their annual youth softball and baseball clinic June 29, teaming up with the Coppin State University women’s softball team to teach kids the ins and outs of baseball. The summer baseball clinic was held at Radecke Park in northeast Baltimore and was in full swing with kids and parents from the […]

Cynthia Dugger thought the loud bangs that rang out near her home on the 3300 block of Elmora Avenue in Baltimore on the evening of June 27 were thunder, part of a band of storms moving through the area. Instead, Dugger said she was horrified to find out that the loud bangs on the block […]

BALTIMORE — Business is good for Steven Murphy. Last year the Baltimore real estate agent sold $45 million worth of property in trendy waterfront neighborhoods including Fells Point, Locust Point and Canton. Even after Hurricane Sandy inundated New York and New Jersey just last hurricane season; even after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005; […]

Less than a week into the summer season, Baltimore has endured an unusual spike in crime which police said was primarily related to guns and gangs. The city has seen 114 homicides this year, compared to 103 during the same period last year, and 190 non-fatal shootings compared to 171 in 2012. City officials said […]

A Baltimore man has been arrested for the shooting death of a man over Memorial Day weekend. Tavon T. Hammond, 28, is charged with the murder of a 24-year-old Sykesville man, Blake Harris. According to police records, Harris was shot at the intersection of Marble Hall Road and Cold Spring Lane in Baltimore around 7:30 […]

Ten years ago, Tropical Storm Isabel flooded Sandy Piskor’s Fells Point rowhouse, sweeping brown harbor water through the rooms, saturating first-floor furniture, ruining appliances. Outside, firefighters in pontoon boats were rescuing neighbors, but there was no way to salvage all the possessions from their homes along the cobblestone streets of one of the city’s oldest […]

Baltimore student, Kiara Gordon of Abbottston Elementary School was one of 14 Student Patrollers out of nearly 30,000 Patrollers in Maryland to be honored with the 2013 AAA Mid-Atlantic Outstanding School Safety Patrol Award. Selected for their extraordinary leadership, dedication, responsibility and service to their schools and communities, each of these students received a plaque […]

The first days of summer have been busy for the Baltimore Police Department, as a string of shootings and murders have swept the city. In the first five days of summer, from June 21 to June 25, there were 27 shootings in the city. Police said nine people have been killed, bringing the homicide total, […]