Category: Baltimore News

Two of the three victims in what police are calling an accidental triple drowning were buried without the presence of their parents in Seaford, Del. on July 15. The parents of Yamoul Dona,7, and Christopher Toto Gabriel,11, were unable to come from Haiti, birthplace of all three drowning victims, to attend the joint funeral on […]

Eighty new recruits crossed the stage of the Century High School Auditorium in Sykesville, Md. on July 13 as the largest-ever graduating class in the Maryland State Police’s 91-year history. Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown (D), an Iraq War veteran, was the keynote speaker and praised the graduates for their commitment to service. “Today, you will […]

On a bright Saturday afternoon, three best-friends—non-swimmers—are believed to have ventured into a cool creek that dissects their community for refuge from triple-digit temperatures, but never made it out. The youngest, Yamoude Dona, was seven, Christopher Toto Gabriel, 11, and Vladimir Petron Jacotin, 12, were cousins. Yamoude and Christopher went to the same church, the […]

In the wee hours of the morning, in the middle of a sweltering heat wave, the fatal shooting of Michael Wudtee, a 38-year-old African American man, garnered little attention. According to police, Wudtee, 38, was at a gas station in the 4600 block of Liberty Heights in West Baltimore just after midnight on July 1 […]

The businesses that call North Baltimore’s Waverly community home now have a new director. The Waverly Main Street Board of Directors welcomed Jermaine Martez Johnson late last month as he took his position as chief development advocate of all companies located around the Greenmount commercial corridor. Johnson takes over the position from Ebony Edwards and […]

He attended church regularly. He even contemplated a career in law enforcement. For ten years, while dating her older sister, he was considered a member of Phylicia Barnes’ family. Then, on June 20, several of Phylicia’s relatives who had thought of Michael M. Johnson as family sat across the courtroom from his mother and father […]

Demonstrators gathered at the Baltimore County Court Building complex on July 2 to protest charges filed in the strangulation death of Christopher Brown, 17, who was killed June 13 in an altercation with an off-duty police officer. Prosecutors announced June 27 that they had charged James David Laboard, 32, a nine-year veteran of the Baltimore […]

Maryland’s “No Representation Without Population” Act was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in a ruling June 25. The state law requires voting districts to count the incarcerated in their home district, not where they are imprisoned, for redistricting purposes. In its ruling, the Court said: “…While the majority of the state’s prisoners come from […]

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s FY13 budget passed June 21 on a 9-6 vote without the proposed 30 amendments to fund youth jobs, after school activities and recreation, inciting a passionate discussion by proponents of the amendments who say they hope to revisit the budget on Monday. “I would like for us to go offline, not in […]