Category: Baltimore News

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 […]

Eastside Baltimore residents hankering for healthy food choices near home take note—a fresh market has sprouted at 1900 N. Broadway that is serving up the best of the food groups. The owners, Erich and Michelle March, hope there will be an economic benefit for the neighborhood, as well. Erich March, president of the East North […]

(thinkprogress.org)–A Towson University student recently ignited controversy after suggesting that Black Republicans should have been segregated from the rest of the party at the Conservative Political Action Conference on March 15. According to the blogThinkprogress.org, the exchange occurred shortly after a panel discussion that focused on minority participation in the Republican party. The panel included […]

Soon, arrest for possession of one or two marijuana joints could result in a civil fine, not jail time, if legislation approved by Maryland’s Senate clears the House of Delegates. On March 13, a bill backed by Senator Robert Zirkin (D-Baltimore County) which would classify possession of less than 10 grams of marijuana as a […]

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland is just one signature away from ending all state executions after the House of Delegates voted 82-56 in favor of repealing the death penalty Friday. The Senate voted to repeal the death penalty last week. “This is a historic decision today in Maryland,” said Ben Jealous, president of the National Association for […]

John Hamilton’s main concern March 12 was not the opportunity for a warm bed or a hot meal. The recovering heroin addict’s major concern was that if he joined the other 12 homeless people who moved into the Belvedere Homes housing facility from Camp 83, an encampment for homeless people under the Jones Falls Expressway, […]

BALTIMORE, Md.—Kendell Richburg, a 36-year-old Baltimore police officer pleaded guilty March 11in U.S. District Court in Baltimore to helping a local drug dealer sell heroin and then robbing the dealer’s customers as part of a scheme that prosecutors said was a conspiracy to distribute heroin, cocaine and marijuana during a more than 18-month period that […]

ANNAPOLIS – Gov. Martin O’Malley’s offshore wind energy bill is on its way to his desk for a signature, having passed in the House in February and in the Senate on Friday. Five friendly Senate amendments are expected to be approved easily by the House. The new legislation will funnel $1.7 billion of ratepayer subsidies […]

A Maryland man was sentenced Feb. 28 to one year in prison for the assault of a U.S. Park Police officer who was nearly struck by other vehicles following a highway traffic stop. Jesse Lee Bell, 39, of Randallstown, Md. was also sentenced to six months of community confinement and three years of supervised release. […]

The leader of a Northeast Baltimore drug ring was sentenced March 8 to 20 years in prison, while two subordinates each received 10 years. Dearius Forrester, 24, of Rosedale, pled guilty to charges of conspiracy to distribute and possession with the intent to distribute powder and crack cocaine. According to court documents, from at least […]

It was the night of Feb. 8, 1963,  and William D. Zantzinger, a prosperous tobacco farmer from Southern Maryland, was the center of attention at the Spinsters’ Ball, a swanky charity event at the Emerson Hotel in Baltimore. Channeling Fred Astaire in a top hat, white tie and tails, a carnation in his lapel and […]