Category: Baltimore City

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

April 28, 2008

Virgin Mobile Festival lineup

Filed under: Baltimore City, Events, concerts, Music - 28 Apr 2008

Midnight Sun
Main Stage acts on Saturday, Aug. 9 are, in alphabetical order:

Bloc Party, Cat Power, Chuck Berry and The Silver Beats, Citizen Cope,
Duffy, Foo Fighters, Gogol Bordello, Jack Johnson, KT Tunstall, Lupe
Fiasco, The Offspring, Paramore, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Sharon …

Other violence, sex assault at Reginald Lewis HS

Filed under: Crime, Education, Baltimore City, K-12, Public Schools - 28 Apr 2008

WJZ
BALTIMORE (WJZ) ― More disturbing allegations arise at an already troubled Baltimore City high school.

Mike Hellgren reports in an Eyewitness News Exclusive, following two high profile beatings, there are now reports of a sexual assault.

The mother says …

April 25, 2008

Photographer attacked at school where teacher was attacked

Filed under: Crime, Education, Baltimore City, K-12, Public Schools - 25 Apr 2008

WBAL.com
A photographer for The Examiner (Baltimore) was attacked by a person believed to be a student while the photographer was taking pictures at a school where an art teacher was assaulted earlier this month, the newspaper said.

Arianne Starnes, 24, …

April 23, 2008

Bus beating attackers suing MTA

Filed under: Maryland Government, Baltimore City, Legal News, transit - 23 Apr 2008

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 …

Dixon halts property tax cuts

Filed under: Government, Baltimore City - 23 Apr 2008

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 …

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