Category: Baltimore News

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake heralded a “new urban story” in her annual State of the City (SOTC) address on Feb. 11, noting, “The narrative of post-industrial decline won’t be the growing narrative.” Rawlings-Blake said she planned to implement the city’s first 10-year financial plan for revitalization despite Baltimore losing more than one-third of its population in […]

Nearly one-third of job-hunting teenagers and young adults in Baltimore can’t find work, according to the latest government unemployment data. Nobody has to tell Baltimore’s young job seekers how tough it is. Aaron Smith, 21, of East Baltimore, has been looking for roughly six months without success. “I got a couple of interviews but haven’t […]

Tyrese Gibson and Joseph Simmons, better known as Rev. Run, stopped by Morgan State University in early February as part of a tour for their new book “Manology.” “There is a positive message in the written book that the staff wanted the students to know,” said Vinetta McCullough, Morgan’s director of auxiliary services. Morgan students […]

A Baltimore man who claimed to be a financial investor pleaded guilty Feb. 8 to defrauding 22 people over the age of 55 of retirement savings totaling $890,000, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland announced. Casey Charles, 33, pleaded guilty to mail fraud in a scheme stretching back to 2007. “When something sounds […]

Beginning this spring, Morgan State University’s campus newspaper, The Spokesman, will become a strictly online publication. “Advancements in society require innovation and creativity,” said Perry Sweeper, the university’s director of student media. Sweeper oversees The Spokesman and the campus year book The Promethean. He is currently designing the paper’s website, which will eventually be maintained […]

St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Towson, Md. will pay $4.9 million under a settlement reached for false claims it made to several federal healthcare programs, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland announced Feb. 7. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, St. Joseph’s admitted to authorities that, between 2007 and 2009, it unnecessarily […]

In the latest episode in a twisting drama involving Morgan State University’s leadership, members of the board of regents on Feb. 5 ousted their chairman, officials said. Though he will remain on the board of regents, Dallas R. Evans, who has headed the board for 13 years and has served on the panel for more […]

Anyone who has heard the late Rev. Vernon Dobson talk about the “Is-ness” of God or witnessed his sounding the alarm for justice for the community is convinced of his love for people and how that love motivated his life’s work. That was the tone sounded at the Feb. 2 service held to honor his […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Baltimore, joined a bipartisan group of lawmakers in announcing a bill Tuesday to combat weapons trafficking, an issue he said is personal. “It is a painful thing to see your blood splattered on the walls of an apartment,” Cummings said, speaking of his nephew, Christopher Cummings, who was fatally […]

For as long as any of his loved ones can remember, Scott Taylor loved music. So after he died at age 55 recently following a long illness, they sent him home with a band that was formed in his honor playing his favorite songs. Legendary in Baltimore and beyond for his skill on the trumpet, […]

Tessa Hill-Aston, who was first elected president of the Baltimore Branch of the NAACP in 2010, took the oath office for a second term Jan. 15 at New Fellowship Christian Community Church in Park Heights. Also sworn in at the event were Ronald Flamer, first vice president; Adrian Muldrow, second vice president; the Rev. Anthony […]

The Baltimore Ravens returned home as champions Feb. 5, bringing home the Super Bowl XLVII trophy to the thousands upon thousands of loyal fans who not only packed the parade route, but filled every available space inside the 71,008—seat M&T Bank Stadium for a homecoming celebration. On a day when clouds line the sky and […]