Category: Baltimore News

Thousands are expected to attend the June 7 going home services for the Rev. Dr. Harold A. Carter Sr., Baltimore pastor, civil rights legend, author, and community activist who died May 30 after a long battle with cancer. There’s not much more comforting than prayer and the members of New Shiloh Baptist Church, on the […]

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland’s second-highest court has affirmed the verdict in the election fraud trial of a campaign consultant involving Election Day automated calls that prosecutors said were aimed at keeping Black voters from the polls. Julius Henson worked for former Republican Gov. Robert Ehrlich’s campaign during his 2010 rematch with Democratic Gov. Martin […]

(Updated 6/1/2013) The faith community of Baltimore was saddened, May 30, to hear of the death of the Rev. Harold A. Carter Sr., pastor of New Shiloh Baptist Church for 48 years. His leadership has helped craft the ministry of more than 100 sons and daughters in ministry and mentored the discipleship of generations of […]

Family members, residents of Baltimore’s Cherry Hill neighborhood, law enforcement officials, clergy and others gathered in front of the Cherrydale apartments in the 1100 block of Cherry Hill Road on May 29 to remember a one-year-old who was shot to death several days earlier. Carter Scott was sitting in the backseat of a car also […]

Derek Liggins never thought he would see the day. After eight years behind bars for selling drugs, Liggins decided to turn his life around. He joined STRIVE Baltimore, a program that specializes in helping fathers and hard-to-employ Baltimoreans. That program later became the Center for Urban Families, which has been recognized for its success. That […]

City officials broke ground May 29 for the Baltimore Horseshoe casino. The million-dollar project, which is being spearheaded by Caesars Entertainment, will be located near M&T Bank Stadium. It will include slots, blackjack, craps and poker. Construction is scheduled to be completed in September of next year. 

The Baltimore City Council wants to ensure that city’s jobless aren’t passed over as the city develops. But a new local hiring bill, is too good to be true, says local minority businessmen. The bill would require contractors with $300,000 in city contracts or $5 million in city subsidies to hire 51 percent of their […]

While residents across the city from Park Heights to Belair-Edison lit grills to enjoy Memorial Day weekend feasts and danced the “Wobble” with family and friends, Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts was consoling residents in the Cherry Hill neighborhood. On the evening of May 24, 16-month-old Carter Scott, became the city’s youngest victim of […]

Building on a legacy begun more than five decades ago, Baltimore’s CENTERSTAGE continues to enliven the city with topics of race and class in the latest cycle of plays based on the late Lorraine Hansberry’s Broadway debut, “A Raisin in the Sun.” For the past two months, audience members of all ages and walks of […]

Officers from the Baltimore Police Special Enforcement Section arrested and charged two suspects May 21 with multiple weapons and narcotics violations after a cache of weapons, suspected marijuana and almost $20,000 in cash were found in their home, official said in a statement of probable cause in the case. The suspects were identified as Francisco […]

The Baltimore mega-church Bethel AME Church announced a partnership with local radio stations 92Q and Magic 95.9 to help send relief to the victims of Moore, Okla., a town which was hit the hardest by a devastating tornado on May 20. The twister killed 24 people including 10 children and two infants, officials said. The […]