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LGBT Rights Advocates Gather In Baltimore

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:34:00 -0800

WBAL-TV - Jan. 26 - BALTIMORE -- Thousands began to gather in Baltimore on Wednesday for the 24th annual Conference on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equality, which is considered one of the biggest gatherings in the nation for LGBT rights advocates. Several key pol

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Body of woman found in dumpster on North Charles Street

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - Oct. 16 (News Report) - A woman was found dead in a dumpster in the 200 block of North Charles Street at about 8:12 a.m. Sunday, police said. Police said that the woman's body bore no obvious signs of trauma and added that the woman appeared to be in her early 20s.

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O'Malley releases redistricting map

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Oct. 16 (News Report) - Gov. Martin O'Malley unveiled his congressional redistricting map Saturday, avoiding significant changes to an advisory panel plan that maintains two black-majority districts and targets a veteran Republican House member The O'Malley administration made the map available on the Maryland Department of Planning's website. O'Malley will formally submit the map to the Legislature on Monday for a special session.

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Firefighters rescue people stranded by storm

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Peter Hermann - Sep. 09 (News Report) - While everyone was trying to stay dry on Thursday, I spent the day trying to get wet. I headed down to Severna Park, to the Anne Arundel County Fire Department's Jones station, Company 23, headquarters of the special operations command

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McNulty to play Iago to Lester’s Othello

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Brew - By Brew Editors - Sep. 09 (News Report) - From Simon to Shakespeare! From Baltimore to the bard! Wire co-stars Dominic West (Det. James “Jimmy” McNulty) and Clarke Peters (Det. Lester Freamon) are going to be appear onstage this fall at England’s Sheffield Crucible Theatre for a production of Othello.

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Stronger police presence in D.C. for 9/11 observance

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Sep. 09 (News) - The nation’s capital is increasing police presence during the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and following a threat of a new attack. The move mirrors heightened security across the country as federal officials said Thursd

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Turning it Around After Pulling the Trigger

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:09:57 -0700

WYPR - By Sheilah Kast - Aug. 31 (Interview) - There’s been lots of talk this election season about putting criminals behind bars. But what happens when they get out? Jericho Reentry Program case manager Greg Carpenter tells Sheilah what ex-offenders need to succeed, and what makes people ready to pull a trigger in the first place.

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8-23-11: The Role of Criminal Informants

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WYPR - By Sheilah Kast - Aug. 23 (News Analysis) - Earlier this month, Antonio "Mack" Hall was found guilty of murdering another member of the Westport neighborhood in South Baltimore -- a man who had been accused of snitchin'. In light of that, we talk with Alexandra Natapoff, author of Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice, on the shadowy world of police, prosecutors, and criminals who get leniency in exchange for information.

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Baltimore, Town of Noir

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WYPR - By Sheilah Kast - Aug. 23 (News Analysis) - When you think noir, do you think Baltimore? Maybe you should. One of the fathers of the genre, Dashiell Hammett, honed his detective chops in Charm City.

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8-16-11: Rural Life, Post-Post Office « Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WYPR - By Sheilah Kast, Lawrence Lanahan - Aug. 16 (News Analysis) - The USPS is considering closing 42 Maryland post offices, many of them rural. We speak with a resident of Still Pond in Kent County, which has been without a post office since a fire last September.

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Stock Market Crash: What Should You Do?

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WBAL-TV - Aug. 10 (Editorial) - Experts weigh in on what investors should do in these turbulent times on Wall Street.

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Tech Talk

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WYPR - By Nathan Sterner - Aug. 09 (News Analysis) - Mike Subelsky on starting tech startups.

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To Be a Thirsty Tomato

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WYPR - By Sheilah Kast, Stephanie Hughes - Aug. 02 (News Analysis) - How the extreme heat and dryness is affecting the region's farmers.

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City youth become community organizers, promote change - baltimoresun.com

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Julie Baughman - Jul. 31 (News) - Kevin Smith, 15, excitedly began snapping pictures of an old, weathered tombstone he found after wading through tall grass just outside a fenced-in landfill near Johns Hopkins Hospital in East Baltimore.

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Why do we kill?

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Investigative Voice - By Alan Z. Forman - Jul. 29 (Opinion) - he excessively high murder rate in Baltimore will not decrease significantly until “the borders of the city are opened up to the state,” a forum filmed and aired live online by C-SPAN was told Thursday evening by the publisher of Investigative Voice and a retired chief homicide detective who addressed an overflow gathering at the independent bookstore Atomic Books in Hampden.

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Lift Off

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Urbanite - By Holden Warren - Jul. 28 (News) - It used to be they could ride around Druid Lake undisturbed, but the city outlawed it. Now, the Sunday rides are a wild safari hunt through every corner of the city, the police shadowing the bikers, looking to pick off stragglers or tracking them to where they live to seize their bikes.

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The Ultimate Punishment

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Urbanite - By Michael Corbin - Jul. 28 (Special Report) - While capital punishment has been upheld in the courts and has high levels of support among the public, the death penalty is on the decline nationwide. Yet in Maryland, as in all death penalty states, major variations exist at the local level.

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Clear-Eyed Capitalists Take Baltimore Investment Community Into the Future

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Fishbowl - By Michael Yockel - Jul. 28 (Interview) - Meet five local financial leaders armed with enough savvy, innovation, and responsibility to make us feel semi-optimistic about the economic future.

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Maryland researchers help crack genomic code of bacteria in German E.coli outbreak