Category: Baltimore News

James “Biddy” Wood died quietly on Oct. 7, taking with him great moments of history and culture in the Baltimore community. “Biddy” Wood, as most called him, was a former editor of the Afro-American Newspaper, a talent manager and the owner of a club. During his days as a reporter his beat was Baltimore’s historic […]

Michael Hunter faces a maximum of life plus 20 years, having been convicted by a Baltimore City Circuit Court jury of first-degree murder and other charges in the death of 72-year-old Charles Bowman Sr., an AFRO security guard. Hunter and co-defendant Troy Taylor entered the carryout (Yau’s) at 29th Street and Greenmount Avenue on April […]

Marylanders looking to see one of their own in a Broadway production need look no further than Baltimore’s famed Hippodrome Theatre. Showing Oct. 4-9, the South Pacific National Tour, featuring Columbia native, Jay Frisby, will entertain audiences while also bringing up heavier issues like love and racial inequality in a time of war. Based on […]

Community activist Michael Eugene Johnson, who lost a 9th district City Council bid last month, is preparing to mount a write-in campaign to unseat the winning nominee William “Pete” Welch. Welch, who won the Sep. 13th Primary with 1,721 votes, has represented Southwest Baltimore’s ninth district for nine months, following his mother’s resignation from the […]

A new congressional map proposed by the governor’s redistricting panel would seemingly not only cement Democratic domination but shore up Black voting strength in Maryland. The map — presented to the General Assembly this week — keeps Baltimore area districts intact with only slight changes. Most notably, the city would keep its three members of […]

WOODLAWN, Md. (AP) — A Social Security Administration employee who was on his lunch break has been shot during a robbery near the agency’s headquarters in suburban Baltimore. The shooting prompted a temporary lockdown of the Social Security campus in Woodlawn, just west of the city of Baltimore. Police say they were called at 11:43 […]

When Jay Frisby joins with the rest of the South Pacific cast of sailors and Seabees to sing “There’s Nothing Like a Dame” and “Bloody Mary” appearing at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre beginning October 4, it will be another big moment for the Columbia, Md. native. But Frisby, part of the national tour of the Rodgers […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — Maryland police agencies have issued thousands of tickets to drivers for using hand-held cell-phones behind the wheel in the year since a ban took effect. Records of electronic citations and warnings handed out by 76 police agencies show that 4,021 warnings and 5,227 citations have been issued to drivers who failed to […]

Baltimoreans were shaken in the early morning hours of Sept. 28 with news of a house fire that claimed the lives of a well known and much loved couple, Donald and Jennye Patterson. Donald, a retired assistant superintendent of Baltimore Schools, was also the brother of the first Black superintendent of schools, Roland Patterson. Jennye […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — State Sen. Ulysses Currie never disclosed he was being paid by a grocery store chain as he pressed the head of the Maryland State Highway Administration to install traffic lights near the company’s stores, the highway chief testified during the lawmaker’s bribery trial on Wednesday. Neil Pedersen is retiring from the SHA […]

Dr. Scott Jackson Dantley, associate vice president of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning and Professor of Science for Coppin State University, was hand selected by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) in conjunction with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to conduct a feasibility study for 25 Saudi Colleges of Education. He […]