Category: Baltimore City

The lease for Baja Beach Club downtown is not being renewed. The nightclub will close on March 1.

Summary: The Baltimore City Republican Party cordially invites you to its
SUPER TUESDAY PARTY AND STRAW POLL

Come Party with fellow Republicans and Cast your vote one week before the Maryland Primary Election

Tuesday, February 5, 2008
6:30-11:00 PM Super Tuesday Party

Party and Voting …

The Sun
A two-alarm fire that burned for more than two hours this morning damaged a corner bar at the eastern edge of Canton in Southeast Baltimore, according to fire officials.

Flames burst through the roof of the Knotty Pine at …

WBAL.com
About 150 diners had their meals interrupted Saturday night by a carbon monoxide emergency.

Baltimore fire officials say the Ruth’s Chris Steak House at the Pier 5 Hotel at the Inner Harbor, the 700 block of Eastern Avenue was evacuated …

The Examiner:
A dozen protestors marched Wednesday outside the Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center, demanding prosecutors drop all charges against the so-called “MTA 9,” the black teenagers accused of brutally beating a white woman on a Baltimore City bus in …

From The Sun:
One man was shot this afternoon during what Baltimore police said was a “home-invasion robbery gone very, very bad.”

Police have surrounded a three-story West Baltimore rowhouse in the 1700 block of Harlem Ave. in hopes of talking …

Baltimore City Schools are spending over $6 million to improve student scores on the state’s High School Assessment’s exam. Almost a million of that will be spent on paying students who improve their test scores. State Superintendent Nancy Grasmick …

Laura Vozzella in Sunday’s Sun:
Baltimore isn’t having a Martin Luther King Jr. parade tomorrow. It’s having a “Martin Luther King, Jr. Parade Presented by Forman Mills.” Since when does the city parade have a corporate sponsor? Since 2004, it …

Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon is expected to endorse the presidential campaign of Senator Barack Obama at a Greater Baltimore Urban League event this morning. Congressman Elijah Cummings, Comptroller Peter Franchot, and Attorney General Doug Ganssler have all endorsed Obama.

The …

The Sun reports that a grocery store in central Park Heights was victimized by an attempted robbery this morning that included at least one gunshot being fired. No one was hurt according to the report. The robbery took place …