A Baltimore woman was charged Aug. 2 for poisoning her two grandchildren, a five-month-old girl and one-year-old boy, by rubbing methadone on their gums. The male toddler was killed by “methadone intoxication” according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Towanda Reaves, 50, has been charged with second degree murder, child abuse resulting in […]
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Baltimore City School Commissioner Resigns Amid Allegations of False Credentials
(Updated 8/2/2013) Baltimore City school board member Anthony A. Hamilton submitted his letter of resignation Aug. 1 after several inconsistencies were disclosed about his personal and professional background. According to Baltimore NBC affiliate WBAL-TV, Hamilton used another man’s academic record to produce false credentials. “As a result of Mr. Hamilton’s actions and claims we are […]
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Families Celebrate August as National Breastfeeding Month
Much more than a way to save money, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is once again highlighting the fact that breastfeeding newborns has health benefits on both ends of the age-old exchange. August has been named National Breastfeeding Month, with the international spotlight on the first seven days recognized as World Breastfeeding Week. […]
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Baltimore Drug Dealer Who Imported Cocaine Hidden In Flip Flops Gets 15 Years
Lorenzo Solomon, 28, of Baltimore, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt to 188 months in prison June 24 in connection with a conspiracy to import cocaine from St. Vincent and distribute it in Maryland, according to an announcement by U. S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein and other officials. […]
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Prince George’s Circuit Court Clerk Bland Accuses Deputy of Assault
It all started behind closed doors, some sort of disagreement between Circuit Court Clerk Marilynn M. Bland and Chief Deputy Clerk David J. Billings III. By the time it was over, Bland had accused her second in command and long-time political supporter of assaulting her. According to what Bland told police, Billings came into her […]
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Upper Marlboro Man Convicted in Conspiracy to Steal $1.4 million from Baltimore Housing Authority
A federal jury on July 24 convicted Daren Kareem Gadsden, aka “D,” 36, of Upper Marlboro, for conspiring to steal almost $1.4 million from a Baltimore City Housing Authority bank account, according to a statement by U. S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein and other officials. “Daren Gadsden stole from the […]
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Prosecutors drop case against Maryland RB Brown
WASHINGTON (AP) — Prince George’s County prosecutors are dropping charges against Maryland running back Wes Brown, weeks after he was accused of assaulting a police officer who was questioning him about a shooting, a spokesman said Monday. Prosecutors decided to dismiss the case after reviewing the evidence ahead of a preliminary hearing scheduled for Wednesday, […]
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Still No Answers in Death of Hampton Freshman
As the new school year approaches, students from Baltimore to the Hampton Roads region of Virginia remember David Tolulope Esan, the Hampton University freshman who drowned in a campus swimming pool during a school-sponsored celebration in March. Esan, 17, a graduate of Western School of Technology and Environmental Science in Baltimore County, was attending a […]
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Bowie State University Student Awarded National Scholarship
A Bowie State University undergraduate with dreams of becoming an immigration lawyer will travel to her childhood home of Nigeria in the fall to study the Yoruba language, as a recipient of the institution’s Boren Scholarship. Iyabode Sodipo, 20, a junior criminal justice major from Baltimore, was selected among hundreds of applicants around the nation […]
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Closed Meeting Over Harbor Point Deal Violated Transparency Law
Maryland’s Open Meetings Compliance Board ruled on July 29 that Baltimore’s board of finance violated transparency laws by holding a closed meeting to approve $100 million in city issued bonds for the Harbor Point’s $1.8 billion development initiative. The Open Meeting Compliance Board is an independent state run agency housed in the State’s Attorney’s Office. […]
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Prince George’s Man Pleads Guilty in Daylight Kidnapping and Assault
A Capitol Heights man has pled guilty in connection with the abduction, robbery and assault of his pregnant girlfriend, according to a recent news release from the office of U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. According to the release, Christopher Devese, 22, pled on July 9 to kidnapping, assault with a dangerous weapon, robbery, and […]
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Baltimore’s Plan to Avoid Becoming the Next Detroit
As Detroit, Mich. lurched into the biggest municipal financial bankruptcy in American history, mostly from an estimated $3.5 billion in immediate debt it couldn’t pay to current and future retirees, the question in Baltimore and countless other U.S. cities is blunt– and fretful: Could it happen here? Yes, according to municipal finance experts. But Baltimore […]