Category: Baltimore News

Next week students from Johns Hopkins University will scour Baltimore City as volunteers for local agencies and nonprofit organizations in an effort, school leaders say, to mend relationships with surrounding communities while affording students practical experience. The Johns Hopkins Community Impact Internships Program will pay 25 students up to $5,000 to help out in venues […]

Click here to view more pictures in Lifestyle. As students nationwide anxiously don their caps and gowns this graduation season, three Baltimore sisters are celebrating their achievements in unison. This year, the Wood sisters —Savannah, Portia and Jamaica —all graduated from college. Though their respective fields differ, a drive for success is definitely apparent among […]

Former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., was called to testify before a grand jury recently in connection with the controversial robocalls conducted during the 2010 gubernatorial election, according to WJZ TV. Ehrlich and several others, including a former aid and the former chairman of the Baltimore County Republican Party, came before the jury, which is […]

Flash-Just In: Georgia Solomon Found In a statement June 1, police said 12-year-old Georgia Solomon has been located “safe and unharmed” and is now with her family. Further details were not released. The Baltimore City Fire Department and family members say they are concerned about a fire recruit, who has been missing since Memorial Day […]

The State Center Project – placed in limbo by a lawsuit filed by some of the city’s most well-connected (see Orioles owner Peter Angelos) business persons – has generated more hype, anticipation, hope, fear and loathing than any other Baltimore development deal in many years. Yet, there is no clear indication if and/or when its […]

The defendant’s arguments in the May 11 motion hearing in a civil lawsuit brought by the Coalition for Equity and Excellence in Maryland Higher Education against the Maryland Higher Education Commission have finally gotten the public engaged in this debate. The response to hearing coverage spilled onto the airways through the “Larry Young Morning Show” […]

Next month, a city-sponsored youth employment program will pay wages for 5,100 teenagers as they land jobs around the city, but a coalition of community groups says that’s not enough. The Full Employment Baltimore organization wants the summer Youth Works program to serve 9,000 youth – the same figure the group thought was sponsored in […]

Like so many around the country, Victoria Kent was horrified by the disappearance of 16-year-old Phylicia Barnes. But while many residents merely followed Barnes story, Kent, 23, was inspired into action. It was at a local vigil for the teen that Kent decided Barnes and the countless other Black women who had experienced similar tragedies […]

A mayoral hopeful unveiled a policy agenda last week that he said would rebuild Baltimore’s government. The seven-page plan proposes to overhaul city agencies, ensuring they diligently collaborate to provide timely services; increases disclosures among city workers, agencies, contractors and lobbyists and provides more opportunities for the public to issue complaints and request information. “The […]