With a solid foundation established and passion for Christ, well-known local church figure celebrated a couple of milestones: his 75th birthday and 50th wedding anniversary. Local pastors, city officials, church members, family and friends all gathered at the historic Sharon Baptist Church on Aug. 3, to help Rev. Dr. A.C.D. Vaughn observe 75 years of […]
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New Psalmist Baptist Funds Police Station Facelift
Church members crowding into a police station? At night? That rare sight surfaced recently in west Baltimore as New Psalmist Baptist Church members celebrated the grand reopening of the Baltimore Police Department’s NW precinct’s front lobby. The station’s front doors have been off limits for some 15 years, hindering community interaction with the precinct. Visitors […]
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BGF Leader Tavon White Cops a Plea Admits Running Gang Operations from Baltimore Detention Center
Tavon White, the leader of the Black Guerilla Family, which operated illegal enterprises out of the Baltimore City Detention Center, including smuggling drugs and cell phones into the downtown jail and other facilities, pleaded guilty Aug. 6 to racketeering conspiracy. Baltimore resident White, 36, also known as Bulldog and Tay, was described in a statement […]
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Hazmat Responds to Suspicious Substance Found at Congressman Cummings’ Baltimore Office
Police and hazardous material control officials were on the scene in a matter of minutes after a report of a “suspicious substance” on the downtown Baltimore office door of Congressman Elijah Cummings. Office employees and passers-by looked Aug. 7 as first responders cordoned off the area around the door, took photographs, and ran initial tests. […]
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Blood Donation Drive for Children with Sickle Cell
Davon Williams, of Southeast Washington, is 9. He is a vital young man with a bright future. He comes from a loving family. He enjoys playing video games and listening to music. And he is fighting bravely against the ravages of sickle cell disease. In an effort to save his life, Williams’ mother, Shameka Jones-Williams, […]
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D.C. Mayor, Police Chief Hail Drop in Murders on National Night Out
After recording its lowest number of homicides in five decades in 2012, the District of Columbia will never return to the record-setting levels of violence that wracked the city from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s, Mayor Vincent C. Gray said Aug. 6. “I don’t think we’ll ever go back to those days of the […]
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Bowen YMCA Makeover to Be Unveiled in September
The multi-million dollar renovation of the Anthony Bowen YMCA has been completed and set for re-opening Sept. 9 after five years of overhauling. “The grand opening is set in stone,” said Jackie Dilworth, Director of Communications. In observance of 160 years of service as the first African American YMCA in the nation, the renovation of […]
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Maryland Del. Aisha Braveboy Set to Launch AG Campaign
Maryland Del. Aisha N. Braveboy (D-25) said she is ready to throw her hat in the ring by mid-September as a candidate for the next attorney general of Maryland. If she wins, the Prince George’s County-based delegate would be the state’s first African American woman attorney general. A native of Washington, D.C., Braveboy said an […]
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Thousands Flock to National Night Out in Prince George’s
Prince George’s residents from Beltsville to Brandywine were out in force Aug. 6 to celebrate the 30th annual National Night Out. Events were held at more than 80 locations around the county. The city of Glenarden sponsored a family-oriented celebration at city hall where many residents were introduced to the new mayor, Dennis Smith, while […]
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Sister Constance Murphy, Legendary Nun, Dies at 109
Nine years into her life as a centenarian, Sister Constance Murphy took her last breath at peace, though a long way from her Baltimore roots. An acclaimed author, the former Canadian headmistress and life-long student would have been 110 years old on Feb. 2, 2014. She was the longest surviving nun of the Toronto, Ont.-based […]
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Md. Gov. O’Malley Announces Plans for Purple Line
Gov. Martin O’Malley on Monday announced a transportation package of nearly $650 million for Montgomery County. O’Malley and Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown also said Maryland will pursue the state’s first public-private partnership for transit to build the Purple Line. That’s a 16-mile light rail line with 21 stations between Bethesda and New Carrollton. It’s estimated […]
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City Residents Take a Stand Against Violence on National Night Out
Residents from Ednor Gardens to Park Heights stood as a united front against violence on the Aug. 6 for National Night Out (NNO), a citizen initiative to take back the streets. Hundreds of Baltimoreans across the city gathered at more than 70 locations alongside the Baltimore police department, state and local officials and community leaders […]