Category: Baltimore News

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 […]

As she settles in as the first African American woman to become a Baltimore Fire Department battalion chief, Charline B. Stokes can look back over a bumpy road. She has gone from high school dropout and teenage mother to inexperienced, female driver among tough guy first responders. But she has risen steadily in the fire […]

Beauty. You know it when you see it and everyone wants some. Beauty in our homes. Beauty on the landscape. Beauty on ourselves. Americans spend billions every year to get their share. Beauty is easy to spot, but it’s a difficult to put it into words. What’s your definition of real beauty? That question –and […]

One of the signs of the times is that seniors who thought they would be retiring at a certain age are continuing in established careers or even starting second careers because of changes in the economy. Maybe they aren’t ready for a rocking chair, but many are interested in slowing down, just not so much. […]