Category: Baltimore News

Charlotte Knox was among the first wave of people hired to work at the downtown Baltimore Hyatt Regency hotel. After 30 years, she was glad to retire last year. “When I came to work at the Hyatt, there were 400 plus employees, including managers and supervisors. Since then I have seen such a difference,” said […]

Two months after he was shot by a Baltimore police during a training exercise, University of Maryland Police Officer Raymond Gray can’t hold his wife, play with two boys or work. After he was shot, he spent three weeks at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma before he was transferred to Sinai Hospital, for rehabilitation. […]

Neither the heavy rain nor the cold that hovered over Baltimore could dampen the spirits of the community leaders, residents, politicians, clergy and police officers who marched through Fulton Heights on April 12 for a rally to make the streets safer. Billed the “Enough is Enough” rally, the event was part of a seven week […]

Safe havens for young people, cultural diversity training for law enforcement officers and accountability at all levels of criminal justice and social service infrastructure were the recurring themes as youth leaders, community organizers and Baltimore City police officers met on April 15 at the Academy of Success in West Baltimore for the First Annual Youth […]

Morgan State University’s Community Organic Vegetable Garden is back in full flower and is greener than ever this year. The once-vacant land at Chinquapin Run Park, on the corner of Hillen and Stonewood Roads, is being cultivated by Morgan political science majors and members of the school’s Nutritional Sciences Program, along with the help of […]

(Updated 4/15/2013) Baltimore City is in a state of heightened security awareness until tomorrow evening following two bomb explosions during the Boston Marathon around 3 p.m., Baltimore City Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts said April 15. “In response to today’s incident and in consultation with Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, I have raised the security awareness level […]

In the latest in a series of controversies swirling around Dr. Ben Carson, the famed Johns Hopkins pediatric neurosurgeon has withdrawn as the speaker at next month’s medical school commencement program. Carson, known around the world for the unparalleled success he earned in medicine after pulling himself up from poverty, recently drew criticism—AGAIN—after he made […]

A string of unrelated shootings, over a nearly 8-hour span from the evening of April 10 to the morning hours of April 11, left eight people injured, according to the Baltimore City Police Department. Detective Vernon Davis told the AFRO that police will continue to search for the shooters. “We have detectives and officers patrolling […]

(Updated 4/13/2013) Deontae Smith, 15, will never learn how to drive. He will never go to a prom. He will never vote. While thousands of Baltimoreans gathered in downtown Baltimore to celebrate the return of the 2012 Super Bowl Champions, the Ravens, Deontae was stabbed near the parade route, later pronounced dead at a nearby […]

(Updated 4/17/1013) The Baltimore City Board of Estimates approved the purchase of 72 new speed cameras for $2.2 million April 10 by a four to one vote. The purchase is to replace equipment that was the subject of a massive malfunction in January. The cameras are used to snare motorists who violate speed laws. The […]

The Baltimore City Police, in an effort to forge solid police-community relations in a crime-plagued section of West Baltimore, will stage a series of police-citizen neighborhood events in the Fulton Heights neighborhood over the next seven weeks, police officials said April 11. Beginning April 12, Police Commissioner Anthony Batts and officers from the western police […]