Category: Baltimore News

A week after her gruesome murder, several teddy bears, flowers and cards lay strewn on the sidewalk before Jhoma Blackwell’s home. A child’s pencil drawing of what looks like a girl and a large flower is taped to a porch wall. One man, who lives three doors down from Blackwell, remembers her as a quiet […]

Maryland Board of Education Superintendent Nancy Grasmick on March 30 announced she would retire June 30 after 20 years on the job. Grasmick, who steered the state system to a top national ranking for the last three years, told the Associated Press that she wanted to spend more time with her family. Her announcement triggered […]

Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler and Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden March 28 asked Google and Apple to ban smartphone applications that allow drivers to share the location of drunken driving checkpoints. The two state top lawyers have joined the growing chorus of lawmakers who claim the software helps users avoid law enforcement efforts to […]

The Baltimore City Council swiftly approved Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s redistricting map during the March 28 city council meeting, despite nays from Jim Kraft, D-1, Belinda Conaway, D-7, and Carl Stokes, D-12. Councilmembers planned to return the map drawing table if state-issued prison numbers resulted in overpopulated districts, but the figures, released last week, documented only […]

Flanked by her husband, Anthony “Bubba” Green, Nancy Green sat behind a long, narrow table before several members of the Maryland Public Service Commission, telling the gruesome story of how her daughter Deanna was killed by stray electricity. “Deanna didn’t touch a live wire or an electrical box,” she said, fighting back tears. “We live […]

At first glance, Lance Lucas does not quite fit the bill of the head of a technology firm. Neither does he resemble the typical definition of a social activist. However, the 35-year-old Coppin State University graduate has worked in both arenas and is not bashful about his success. The founder and CEO of Digit All […]

Leaked documents that reveal Councilwoman Belinda Conaway, D-7, owns a home in Randallstown have many questioning whether she lives in Baltimore City. Under city charter rules, city councilpersons are mandated to reside within the district they represent, but according to a deed leaked by political blogger and city council aspirant Adam Meister, Conaway may have […]

A heavily amended bill to place a statue of Harriet Tubman in the Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol was passed unanimously on March 28 by the Maryland Senate. “Maryland had a unique opportunity to replace a slaveholder with a slave, a white man with a Black woman, a colonial figure with a Civil War […]

State lawmakers might repeal a rule that ensures Black and woman-owned businesses are awarded a set percentage of state contracts. The bill – which cleared the House last week – is polarizing the minority business community. Since 2006, Maryland law has required state agencies to allocate 7 percent of contract funds to qualified Black businesses, […]