Archive for: May 2008

Baltimore Sun
A staff member at Calverton Elementary/Middle was putting in extra hours at the West Baltimore school Sunday afternoon when two 13-year-old boys broke into the building and one tried to rape her, police confirmed yesterday.

Realizing that her attacker …

WBAL.com
A female midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy has died after her roommates found her unconscious and not breathing in her bed.

The service academy says the first-year student was pronounced dead at Anne Arundel Medical Center a short time …

WBAL.com
Add one more Reginald F. Lewis High School teacher filing assault charges against students.

The teacher alleged that they pushed him. According to the Examiner the teacher might not be too popular.

He also filed a grievance with the teacher’s …

Plenty of pictures are online from this weekend’s Towsontown Spring Festival. Just click here for the photographs I took Sunday afternoon.

Baltimore Sun
They came. They bobbed - some awkwardly. They sang. “Never gonna give you up. Never gonna let you down. Never gonna run around and desert you.”

Then after three minutes and three seconds, the young fans of 1980s British …

Welcome to edition #32 of the Carnival of Maryland. Apologies for the delay in posting today - I’ve been under the weather this morning.

Blue presents One Great Potential Benefit Of Higher Gas Prices - Less Traffic in the …

WBAL.com
hings are slowly improving for motorists this afternoon on the Outer Loop of the Beltway at the Baltimore Washington Expressway, after a tractor trailer overturns near the Baltimore Washington Parkway (Route 295).

The Beltway was shut down completely following the …

Are you heading downtown to Flowermart? Or are you headed to Towson to the Towsontown Spring Festival?

What else are you doing around town this weekend?

Leave it in the comments.

UMBC release
President Hrabowski on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360

Interview Scheduled to Air 10 p.m. Friday, May 2

CONTACT:
Mike Lurie
Office: 410-455-6380
Cellphone: 443-695-0262
mlurie@umbc.edu

An interview with UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski is scheduled to air nationally on the CNN program, Anderson Cooper 360, at 10 …

Laura Vozella
Steve Forbes’ yacht, The Highlander, was in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor a couple days this week.

Was the one-time presidential candidate trying to sell Mayor Sheila Dixon on the flat tax, perhaps over some Beluga caviar?

(The 151-foot yacht dishes up …