Category: Baltimore News

In the wake of recent backlash against Four Loko and other caffeinated alcoholic drinks, Councilwoman Belinda Conaway, D-7, is demanding action from the Baltimore City Liquor Board. She plans to introduce a resolution at a Dec. 6 City Council meeting that would require the Liquor Board to report regulatory efforts to seize the drinks from […]

The beginning of the holiday season has been filled with sadness for the family of 16-year-old Delvonte Tisdale, a teen with Baltimore roots whose mutilated body was discovered in an affluent suburb of Boston earlier this month. But exactly how he was killed remains a mystery. Police said Tisdale’s body, which could only be identified […]

Police are investigating an attack on a 15-year-old African-American youth by a group of men associated with a Jewish community patrol group, which occurred on Nov. 19 in the Upper Park Heights Community of Baltimore. According to a police report, the incident occurred at approximately noon when the boy was traveling on Falstaff Road. After […]

The Baltimore Branch of the NAACP has a new face, city housing official Tessa Hill-Aston. The Northwest Baltimore native was elected president Nov. 16, defeating longtime former head, G.I. Johnson, by 142 votes. While this was her first presidential run, she has served on the NAACP executive board for 15 years, most recently as second […]

After a month of town hall meetings, routine school visits and contract modifications, members of the Baltimore City Teachers Union voted in favor of what the city schools’ system calls a landmark contract negotiation. “Teachers are at the very heart of everything we as a school district do, and unlike any other agreement until now—here […]

In a nearly unanimous vote Nov. 22, the Baltimore City Council approved an 11-acre development project that will bring Wal-Mart and Lowe’s to North Baltimore. The 25th Street Station project, which will be constructed on the site of Anderson Automotive on West 25th and Howard Streets, passed the council in a 14-1 vote. Councilman Carl […]

Long before construction begins on the $1.6 billion State Center project in Baltimore, the local group Community Churches United for Baltimore Jobs said Nov. 22 it wants to make it clear that the project must provide economic benefits to those living in and around the area. Rev. Alvin C. Hathaway of Union Baptist Church, Pastor […]

For over 140 years, Baltimore has not acknowledged one of the city’s first school superintendents, John Nelson McJilton. That’s because the man who helped shape Baltimore’s school system, who was White, was ousted for establishing two schools for African-American children just years after the Civil War. Until earlier this month, remnants of his legacy were […]

After seven consecutive terms in the Baltimore City Council, Agnes Welch, D-9th district, has confirmed her retirement, saying she will leave her post within two weeks. Welch, 85, made the formal announcement Nov. 22 at a weekly city council meeting. Her last day will be Dec. 6, she said. The tiny but robust councilwoman has […]

Maryland Gov. O’Malley announced this week the appointment of Emmet C. Davitt as state prosecutor. “I am pleased to appoint Emmet Davitt to be the next State Prosecutor,” said O’Malley in a written statement.  “Mr. Davitt is known for his sound judgment, his integrity, and his broad experience in working with law enforcement and grand […]