Category: Baltimore News

Smoke created a dense fog as firefighters battled a two-alarm fire that engulfed a building containing the Open Space artist studio and gallery and several auto body repair shops at the intersection of 28th St. and Sisson St. in Baltimore on May 1. “Flames shot up 30 feet in the air,” said William Hamilton, who […]

Worshipers late for service at Victorious Ministries International (VMI) Church might have had a parking problem last Sunday, because the 4600 block of York Road was lined with rows of motorcycles. Nearly 100 members of biker clubs from across the nation came, for the second year, to seek God’s protection, mercy and grace for motorcyclists […]

“Who does that?” Who knowingly and willingly breaks the law who has been sworn to uphold the law? Who knowingly and willingly has sexual relations and gets impregnated not once, but twice by a murder suspect whose name is visibly tattooed on not one, but two women’s body parts? Well, if the federal indictment handed […]

Growing up in the Park Heights in the community of Northwest Baltimore in the 1960s and 1970s, Harry Black never thought he would work in public administration, much less become director of finance for Baltimore. For Black, maneuvering the drug-infested neighborhood, which eventually became overrun with crack cocaine, poverty and blight, was, literally, an uphill […]

The Mayor’s Office of Employment Development (MOED) and CBAC Gaming, LLC, the owner and operator of the Horseshoe Casino Baltimore, were granted permission May 1 to hire a recruitment coordinator to find qualified local residents to apply for jobs at the casino, according to a statement released by the mayor’s office. The recruitment coordinator will […]

Det. Daniel T. Nicholson IV, the lead investigator in the missing person’s case of honor student Phylicia Barnes, was charged on April 29 with four counts in an illegal police search to find his own runaway daughter. Nicholson faces two counts of second-degree assault, one count of fourth-degree burglary and one count of making a […]

Sean-Christopher Riley, “Shaka” as he calls himself, may not fit the stereotypical idea of homelessness. He works as a nursing assistant. He has his associate’s degree from Montgomery Community College. He served his country as a U.S. Army airborne infantry specialist from 1982 to 1986. But he’s homeless. Shuffling from the couches of friends and […]

Traffic crawled, backing up for more than a block, as drivers slowed to read a sign slung over the shoulders of 10-year-old Larry Saunders. “I disrespect my parents and everyone who tries to help me!” it read. Sarina Clark, Larry’s mother, said she was fed up with his back talk, lies and insolence. So, she […]

The Baltimore City NAACP will host it’s annual prayer breakfast on May 11, 2013, from 9 a.m. until noon at New All Saints Church, 4408 Liberty Heights Avenue in Baltimore. Baltimore Police Lt. Colonel Melvin Russell, an ordained minister who leads the department’s community outreach and faith-based partnership initiatives, will deliver the address. “The connection between the faith community […]

Associated Black Charities (ABC) President and CEO Diane Bell-McKoy was recently honored by The Center for Urban Families (CFUF) with its Urban Visionary Award. Additional awardees included Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children’s Defense Fund, Peter Edelman, a Georgetown Law Professor and Shawn Dove of the Open Society Foundations’ Campaign for Black Male Achievement. […]

State officials pledged April 24 to launch a widespread investigation into corruption at the Baltimore City Detention Center in the wake of the federal indictment of 25 people, including 13 female corrections officers, for a racketeering enterprise that involved drug trafficking, money laundering and sex—all centered inside the jail. The scheme involved cash payments, sex […]

For the residents of the Oliver neighborhood in East Baltimore, one of the most welcome signs of change these days is the demolition crew. Recently, they celebrated, along with Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, as a city-sponsored wrecking crew leveled the 600th vacant house, part of a surge in demolitions over the last two years. The […]