Category: Baltimore News

Commerce officials and federal lawmakers chose Coppin State University as the site to unveil a new website providing free internet and computer skills training and a host of best practices tools to help educators instruct new Internet users. The site, www.DigitalLiteracy.gov, offers a range of services and tutorials including how to apply to jobs online, […]

Plans for a controversial youth jail proposed for East Baltimore has returned to the drawing table after an independent criminal justice research organization reported state prison officials overestimated the bed count. The National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) released a 24-page bed space analysis May 12, that said the facility would only need 117 […]

A summer 2012 wedding is in the works for the state of Maryland, according to the joint statement issued May 16 by Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown and Karmen Bailey Walker announcing their engagement. “It brings us great joy to announce to our friends, family, and neighbors that we are engaged to be married.  Our love […]

Sheila Davis, a 34-year resident of Hunting Ridge—the serene, isolated community bound by Edmonson Village and Leakin Park—came to an MTA-hosted open house for the proposed Red Line last weekend with a gamut of questions. She’s worried that the new transit system, an above and underground train route that promises to connect East and West […]

City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young says a local hiring preference program could help reduce Baltimore City’s sizeable unemployment rate, which looms at 9.9 percent. At the May 9 City Council meeting, he proposed a resolution that would charge members across five city agencies — the Mayor’s Office of Employment Development, Baltimore Development Corporation, […]

At a Georgia church, May 7, friends and family remembered Phylicia Barnes as an angelic, driven, role model with a priceless smile. They gathered at Springfield Baptist Church in Conyers, Ga. for a private funeral for the teen, who went missing from her half-sister’s Northwest Baltimore apartment four months ago. Last month, Barnes’ body was […]

On May 6, the Maryland Unified Licensee Beverage Association (MULBA) held its annual Urban Expo Trade Show at the Patapsco Arena in Baltimore. Distributors of popular non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages previewed their products and honored those persons who have contributed to the distribution of the organization’s message to combat drunk driving and underage drinking and […]

The Board of Estimates approved Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s $2.7 billion budget proposal for fiscal year 2012 last week. The plan now heads to the City Council for review. Council members haven’t seen a detailed spreadsheet of the proposal, but a general budget overview is scheduled for May 11 in City Council chambers, according to an […]

It’s been one year since Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke, D-14, first introduced a bill that would have required major retailers to pay employees a living wage. The galvanizing ordinance—filed May 3, 2010—thrilled many city residents, who saw the possibility to earn more money in a tough economy, and horrified business leaders, who said companies could […]

A jury trial for two Jewish citizen patrolmen accused of assaulting a Black teenager last November has been postponed for two months. Former Shomrim patroller Eliyahu Werdesheim and his brother Avi were scheduled to stand trial May 2 in the racially charged case that led several Black leaders to accuse Baltimore State’s Attorney Greg Bernstein […]

The news came just a little before midnight on March 1: Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the devastating terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was dead. After a decade of eluding capture by America’s and its allies’ forces, the al-Qaeda leader was killed in a U.S. special forces attack on his compound in Abbottabad, […]