Category: Baltimore News

ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities say an alleged Baltimore drug kingpin who may have been trying to expand his operation in Atlanta and has been arrested. U.S. Marshals spokesman Gavin Duffy says Jeffrey Cofield was arrested Wednesday night after authorities with the U.S. Marshals in the Washington, D.C. area told them Cofield had recently relocated from […]

BALTIMORE, Md.–Maryland Court of Appeals Chief Judge Robert M. Bell nearly collapsed while giving a speech honoring Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall at the University of Maryland School of Law around 6:30 p.m. on March 27. In mid-sentence, after he had been speaking for about 45 minutes and apparently near the conclusion his address, the […]

Morgan State University officials announced that U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan will be the featured speaker at their commencement exercises. The ceremony is scheduled for May 18 on the Baltimore campus. Morgan officials credited Duncan’s strong advocacy for public education and his support of the role HBCUs play “in producing graduates to strengthen the competitiveness […]

Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE) announced that in celebration of Women’s History Month, BGE is demonstrating its commitment to diversity and cultivating the female leaders of tomorrow. BGE participated in the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women’s “Cool Women, Hot Jobs” event, educating and inspiring young women to explore educational and career opportunities in […]

David Esan did not swim. Friends said he never learned. But when his classmates in the class of 2016 at Hampton University decided to hold a pool party for Freshman Week on campus at Holland Hall on March 20, he was eager to attend. The party, dubbed “Caution: Wet When Slippery,” was the first official […]

The 2700 block of Tivoly Avenue is, to the casual observer, a ghost town. More than 90 percent of the homeowners and renters have fled the drug and crime-ridden block, receiving relocation awards and property settlements upwards of $200,000. A block away, there are signs of progress. A new, glass-enclosed recreation center is under construction […]

Anybody who wanted cream of crab soup and wandered by the Timonium Fairgrounds a little too late March 23 left disappointed. For the seventh year in a row, the cream of crab soup was the big hit for St. Vincent de Paul’s annual Empty Bowls fundraiser. This year’s crowd topped the 2,000-person mark for an […]

The man convicted last month of second-degree murder in the slaying of North Carolina honors student Phylicia Barnes will receive a new trial after a key witness’ testimony was deemed not credible. Michael Maurice Johnson was scheduled to be sentenced March 20 after a Baltimore jury found him guilty last month. Instead, Judge Alfred Nance […]

Sitting in a room with 15 clergy members, referencing notes from his tablet, and quoting rap lyrics to pronounce his points, the Rev. Heber Brown III leads the weekly senior Bible study at Baltimore’s Pleasant Hope Baptist Church. His discussions revolve around various topics, including the importance of speaking the truth even when it is […]

Eppie Chapman never imagined he would have to explain to his co-workers details behind a Facebook photo of him sitting on a West Baltimore sidewalk surrounded by police officers. Chapman, 42, a heavy equipment operator, said he was pulled over by Baltimore police on Jan. 17 for not properly displaying tags on the front of […]

In recent months, 12 people have been murdered in the Fulton Heights neighborhood of West Baltimore. Residents whisper that gangs are causing it. Others blame drugs. Some point to both. “Those three people got killed over there, two got killed at the basketball court, two women got killed in the alley behind the church,” said […]