Baltimore News Archives

Artists from Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon are all featured at the Art Gallery of Peel's 35th Annual Juried Show, and the pieces are as diverse as the artists themselves.

The trial for a man charged with killing an off-duty Baltimore police officer last year was postponed yesterday because the prosecutor was busy in another trial.

The next Giselle or Tyra could be walking down a runway in Carroll County. Many organizations have found that fashion shows are a great way to raise money and bring attention to a cause or effort.

Maryland business advocates worried that not enough people understand the seriousness of a potential energy crunch announced Thursday they are forming a coalition to raise awareness about the problem.

Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley says Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert appears "relaxed" despite a corruption scandal that could force him to resign.

Gov. Martin O'Malley on Thursday called for the state to consider rules for carrying out the death penalty, but capital punishment proponents and opponents said the directive will not have an effect on the work ...

Normally, rain flushes garbage down Baltimore's storm drains to float past the Inner Harbor's tourist attractions.

But after a recent heavy downpour, no plastic cups or dead rats could be spotted in the water by the National Aquarium. The trash had been caught by a contraption called the called the Water Wheel Powered Trash Interceptor.

Its floating boom catches trash at the base of the Jones Falls before it can befoul the harbor. The boom then sends debris up a conveyor belt driven by the current and into a trash can.

Monday, May 26, 2008 WBAL Radio as reported by Scott Wykoff and Associated Press Baltimore City Police say a man wearing a suit and tie robbed a downtown bank.

The Maryland Aviation Administration will recover less than half of $52 million in uncollected contract fees from major airlines at BWI under a settlement approved by state officials.

The various fees went undercollected at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport between fiscal years 2004 and 2008 because of calculation errors relating to space.

One of the biggest errors involved overstating the square feet in a terminal built for Southwest Airlines, a mistake that caused less money to be charged per square foot.

U.S. Coast Guard Commandant, Adm. Thad Allen, will unveil the Coast Guard's Marine Safety Performance Plan during a speech to members of Baltimore's maritime industry scheduled for 9 a.m. Thursday, National ...

A federal jury today convicted on drug charges a West Baltimore man who acted as the cameraman for the notorious 'Stop Snitching' DVD, which used threats of violence to intimidate potential witnesses from ...

Baltimore fire officials said that a woman was found in cardiac arrest at the scene of a house fire.

By John Wagner Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, May 22, 2008; Page B07 The Maryland Board of Public Works signed off on a plan yesterday to provide $46.3 million for school construction in Montgomery ...

Two Baltimore residents were killed in the southern part of the city during the weekend in unrelated incidents, police said yesterday.

Gov. Martin O'Malley is scaling back new poultry regulations following complaints from farmers, a move that prompted an immediate outcry from environmentalists.

The new permitting requirements that would have applied to about 200 large Eastern Shore poultry farms will now only affect 75 to 100 farms under revised rules released Friday night.

The industrial-style water pollution control permits, which would require a list of manure runoff control measures and annual reports to state environmental regulators, are the first to force poultry farms, a key source of bay pollution, to submit to inspections.

State adult protective services officials say they have removed the remaining residents of an unlicensed assisted living facility in Baltimore where a mentally ill resident died earlier this month.

At least one member of a judicial nominating commission is vowing to resign after the state senate president's son was nominated for a district court judgeship.

A report released yesterday by the state's independent juvenile justice monitor says that conditions are worsening at the Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center and that programming is lacking at the Victor Cullen Center, a new secure facility in Western Maryland. The monitor's findings are the latest in a string of reports critical of conditions in the 144-bed Baltimore center, where observers have documented youth-on-youth violence and assaults on staff members.

City firefighters this morning rescued five people who were trapped on balconies as a three-alarm fire swept through an apartment building in West Baltimore, damaging at least eight apartments and sending tenants racing outside in their pajamas and wrapped in bedsheets.

One person who was rescued was taken to an area hospital, but the four others carried or helped down ladders by firefighters were not hurt. 'I was scared and I felt safe at the same time,' said 10-year-old Marcus Clark, who was one of four in his family, including two women and another child, who were rescued.

Seven men were shot, two fatally, in three apparently unrelated incidents last night in the city.

Baltimore County Police have arrested Daniel Eugene Thompson, Jr., 17, and charged him with the murder of Carlos Adolfo Santay-Carrillo. Mike Hellgren reports investigators were led to him through a tip after ...

A new study ranks Baltimore and Washington in the top five nationally for road rage, in spite of stiff aggressive driving penalties.

A Catonsville woman delivered her first child on Mother's Day, only to learn that the child's father had died from the stab wounds he suffered during a robbery.

A Michigan man was convicted Friday of driving the wrong way on an interstate and slamming his pickup truck into a minivan, killing a Maryland mother and four children who were returning home from a Christmas ...

A vicious stabbing is caught on tape. It happened Wednesday on Howard Street in downtown Baltimore in front of dozens of bystanders.

A court hearing is set for Thursday about a Baltimore charter school teacher's claim she was assaulted by a parent during a biology class.

Baltimore remains on pace for its lowest homicide total in more than 20 years. The city recorded 10 slayings in April, the lowest total for that month since 1997.

Baltimore police are searching for a brazen killer.Derek Valcourt reports, the man walked up to a couple and asked for a cigarette.

Police investigate a shooting outside a place you might not expect. Police shot a woman at a senior citizen complex in Columbia after officers say she came at them with a knife.

Attempts to talk to Harris apparently failed. In the process, police say one officer felt threatened when Harris produced a knife. The officer fired one shot.