Category: Baltimore News

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 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, […]

State medical examiners have officially ruled the death of North Carolina teen Phylicia Barnes a homicide, police announced May 4. Examiners have also determined the cause of death, but are withholding the information. “To release a cause of death at this time could jeopardize the investigation by revealing information known only to the person or […]

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 […]

Donique Warden, a junior at Coppin State University, remembers a time when the school library stayed open until 2 a.m. “Now it closes at 11 and I don’t even get off work until 11 p.m.,” she said. “When I asked librarians about it, they said it’s because they don’t have the money to keep it […]

Rhonda Young held up an imitation ring with an apple-sized diamond. “Think big. You see this ring,” she asked the 12 ninth grade girls packed in a classroom on the third floor of Reginald F. Lewis High School. “This is just the beginning. You have the opportunity to be anything you want to be.” She […]

The mystifying, four-month search for missing North Carolina teen Phylicia Barnes came to a heart-rending end when her naked body was found floating in the Susquehanna River April 20. Boaters had reported a dead body in the river, which crews pulled out about 10 a.m. Baltimore’s chief medical examiner later identified the female as Barnes. […]