Category: Baltimore News

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 […]

City leaders say it will take voter mobilization and education, not just registration to boost voter turnout for Baltimore’s General Election. Interest in the city’s elected offices is at a record low. Many Baltimore area pundits and residents have reasoned why—minimal election coverage, few contested races, not enough captivating candidates, lack of confidence in government […]

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 […]

Like many famous husband and wife bands, Winslow Dynasty’s allure stems from their unique talent and apparent love for each other. “I want to make songs about how fun marriage can be and it’s not boring,” Dontae Winslow, one half of the duo told the AFRO in a recent interview. “Single people tend to say, […]

Although incumbent Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake topped her challengers with over 50 percent of the vote in Baltimore City’s mayoral primary, some say the win “doesn’t mean much” since less than 25 percent of registered voters showed up. Just 22 percent of eligible Baltimore residents took to the polls in what was presumably the worst voter […]

From the time the first campaign fundraising reports were released in January – which showed what seemed like an insurmountable cash lead by Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake over her declared rivals – there was an air of inevitability connected to the 2011 Democratic Primary for mayor. That inevitability manifested in a resounding victory this week […]