Archive for: April 23, 2008

WBAL.com
Frederick County Commissioner Lennie Thompson has proposed that next year’s county school system funding be based on a good-faith effort by the school board to count the number of students with questionable immigration status.

He says the count would …

I have to wonder if the RSS feeds of local blogs (including this one) on Bthesite.com is how Lori Barrett found out about the story of UMBC Rock for Life suing the school? Otherwise, the story ran …

WBAL.com
The attorneys for two of the Baltimore teenagers implicated in the December beating of a passenger aboard a transit bus say they intend to sue the Maryland Transit Administration, the bus driver and the city school system.

The attorneys claim …

Rick Maese
They met a couple of hours before the first pitch. They tried on their beards, downed some Natty Bohs and warmed up with a few Wild Bill chants. David Clapp placed the odds at 10-1 that one of …

WBAL.com
State Police say a tow truck owner-operator was burned by two men who flagged his vehicle down on the Baltimore Beltway and set him afire.

Troopers say the unidentified driver was traveling northbound on 695′ s Outer Loop near Pulaski …

Baltimore Sun
Blaming a weak economy and shaky revenues, Mayor Sheila Dixon is abandoning a long-standing plan to cut 2 cents this year from Baltimore’s highest-in-the-state property tax rate.

The annual cut - which has been made each of the past …

WBAL.com
It’s homecoming day for 120 Maryland National Guard soldiers who have been away for the last year.

This afternoon, members of Company C, 1st Battalion, 175th Infantry Regiment of the Maryland National Guard will return to their headquarters at the …