Category: Baltimore News

A grand jury on June 27 indicted a Baltimore County police officer in the choking death of a 17 year-old. The indictment came two weeks after a rock-throwing incident involving the teen and the off-duty officer near Randallstown, authorities said. James Laboard faces manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter charges in the death of Christopher Brown. Laboard, […]

Three male students suspended from Eastern Technical High School in Essex for placing racial epithets and a derogatory drawing on a whiteboard in a 10th grade Spanish class during the last week of school will not be investigated for committing a hate crime, Baltimore County police said this week. The drawing depicted three nooses, a […]

Tension continued to build at Baltimore City Hall this week as city Comptroller Joan Pratt and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake continued to lock horns over an upgrade to the telephone system used in City offices. Pratt said Rawlings-Blake’s information technology staff purchased 80 telephones, six video-phones, two servers and supporting equipment for technology renovations without going […]

Judge Emmanuel Brown of the Baltimore Circuit Court sentenced campaign consultant, Julius Henson, to roughly two months in prison June 13. He was also sentenced to one year of probation and directed to serve 300 hours of community service within 24 months. A jury in May acquitted the veteran political operative of three other charges […]

Heavy-footed Baltimoreans caught speeding down Wabash Avenue between December 2011 and April of this year will be getting a break from the city within the next three weeks. According to the Baltimore City Department of Transportation, 3,145 tickets in the amount of $40 will be either waived or refunded due to an error printed on […]

The building that first housed Paul Laurence Dunbar High School is finally getting the recognition it deserves—nearly a century after being created solely to serve Black students. As an East Baltimore institution, it has been a key stop on the academic path for generations of African American families. Now, it is a historic landmark, although […]

They converged on McPherson Square, most of them dressed in black and gold. As a band played the lilting strains of the old-time hymn, “When the Saints Go Marching In,” they marched, dancing and singing in a New Orleans-style funeral procession. Their destination wasn’t a graveyard, however. It was the District’s Public Service Commission building […]

The first week of June has already been wracked by violence, with ten shootings taking place between June 2-5. Among those killed was popular restaurant owner, Michael Sullivan, 55. Police responded to “Sully’s Seafood and Subs,” located at 5514 Belair Road on Monday when two customers called 911 to report an unresponsive body laid in […]

Former Maryland State Treasurer Richard N. Dixon, a fiscally conservative Democrat and the first African American to hold the post, died this week, as reported by the Washington Post, from a stroke. Dixon was 74. Word of Dixon’s death swept through the state capital. “I am saddened to hear of the passing” of Dixon, said […]

Maryland Del. Pat McDonough says he will not rescind his request for Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s resignation or his comments about crime and African-American youth in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. The veteran politician has said if the mayor cannot contain flash mob activity downtown and come up with a better strategy to further reduce violent crime in […]