Category: Baltimore News

Two influential Black churches – one young and the other seasoned – will unveil additional worship branches on Easter Sunday, continuing a trend for Black churches to expand. The 225-year-old Bethel A.M.E Church will premiere a companion location in Owings Mills Sunday at 11:30 a.m., and the fresh-faced, 11-year-old Empowerment Temple will debut a second […]

Long time Maryland and Baltimore politician and character William Donald Schaefer died April 18 at his home outside Baltimore. He was 89. Schaefer served on the Baltimore City Council for 16 years before being elected to his first of four terms as mayor of Baltimore in 1971. In his first inaugural address, according to a […]

Read’s Drugstore in downtown Baltimore was given temporary historical landmark status on April 12, delighting preservationists and disappointing officials and developers. The Commission for Historic and Cultural Preservation’s ruling will allow for a longer review on whether the building – site of a groundbreaking civil rights victory – should be preserved. But city officials say […]

One of the two men accused of murdering an AFRO security guard last spring was sentenced to life in prison with all but 35 years suspended by a circuit court judge April 11. Troy Taylor, 20, pled guilty to first-degree murder, the use of a handgun in the commission of a crime, conspiracy to commit […]

Three months into his post as Baltimore’s top prosecutor and in the wake of a high-profile police towing corruption scandal, City State’s Attorney Gregg Bernstein has tapped a local attorney to head his newly minted police prosecution division. Criminal Defense lawyer Janice Bledsoe will close a private practice she opened in 2007 to lead the […]

A state prosecutor dismissed all criminal charges against former City Council President Lawrence Bell III April 7 after the woman plaintiff failed to present sufficient evidence. Shan Mabry had alleged Bell, 49, burglarized her home, stole prescription sunglasses worth $700, harassed and repeatedly stalked her over several months in 2010. Mabry, who claimed she dated […]

Just before the General Assembly wrapped up this week, state lawmakers gave final approval to a bill changing how minority contractors are viewed when dealing with state contracts. Under the new legislation, state agencies fulfill their commitment to MBE by outsourcing 25 percent of the total value of their contracts to either of the defined […]

Morgan State University will receive a landmark $28.5 million portion of a massive $95.8-million, five-year grant from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The grant, which allows the East Baltimore school to conduct research supporting NASA’s Earth and space science projects, is the largest in Morgan’s 144-year history. Morgan will now play an integral part in […]

Baltimore City Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has proposed to cut library and 311 hours, restructure city employee health benefit plans and halve the city’s contribution to recreation centers in an attempt to close a $65 million budget gap. Her budget proposal, released last week, cuts 10 percent of the city’s administration costs without raising taxes and […]