Category: Baltimore

May 14, 2008

Son charged with murdering mother

Filed under: Crime, Towson, Baltimore County - 14 May 2008

The son of Donna Rosemarie Campbell-Powell, a Baltimore County employee, has been charged with murdering his mother and attempting to murder his father when the father returned home.

WBAL.com
Baltimore County Police are charging a 16-year-old Ruxton area boy with …

May 9, 2008

ROTC controversy at UMBC

Filed under: Education, Higher Ed, Military, UMBC, Baltimore County - 09 May 2008

The following letter was sent to members of the UMBC community via e-mail:
TO: The UMBC Community
FROM: …

May 7, 2008

Car plows into O’Malley presser site

Filed under: Baltimore City - 07 May 2008

WJZ
There were some scary moments Tuesday morning as an out-of-control car careened past a group of people gathered for a governor’s news conference in Northwest Baltimore.

Suzanne Collins reports the car then sailed across a busy road and crashed into …

Sex offender gets 4 consecutive 25 year terms

Filed under: Crime, Baltimore County - 07 May 2008

WBAL.com
A Baltimore County circuit court judge handed a convicted sex offender what’s believed to be the longest sentence of its kind in the state…ever.

Carlos Cortez of Essex will have to serve consecutive 25 year prison terms on each of …

Students attempt to rape school staffer

Filed under: Crime, Education, Baltimore City, K-12, Public Schools - 07 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 …

May 5, 2008

Another teacher assaulted

Filed under: Crime, Education, Baltimore City, K-12, Public Schools - 05 May 2008

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 …

Towsontown Spring Festival

Filed under: Flickr, Towson, Baltimore County, Events, Photography, Food - 05 May 2008

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

May 4, 2008

Rickrolling flash mob at the Inner Harbor

Filed under: Baltimore City, Technology, Offbeat News - 04 May 2008

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 …

May 3, 2008

What are you doing today?

Filed under: Site News, Blogs, Events, Baltimore - 03 May 2008

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.

May 2, 2008

Bono was in Baltimore this week?

Filed under: Business, Baltimore City, Media, Baltimore Sun, Celebrity News - 02 May 2008

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 …

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