The City Council is deeply divided over a proposal to impose a mandatory one-year sentence for carrying a handgun in much of Baltimore. The council held an impromptu, 45-minute debate on the idea Monday afternoon before the legislation was even introduced Monday night. Seven members of the 15-member...
As her city deals with a record-setting homicide rate, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh on Monday held a strategy session with Maryland's governor on how to address violence. Pugh told reporters she presented Gov. Larry Hogan with an array of ideas, including increasing collaboration between state...
Chris Hicks was lying in bed flipping through the television channels one night last December when he came across a program shot in Baltimore. The program, an episode of the Viceland series "Payday," featured footage of children taking pictures and playing video games at Kids Safe Zone, the after-school...
A 31-year-old man was shot Tuesday afternoon in Sandtown-Winchester, police said. The man was hospitalized, and police did not immediately release his condition. Officers responded about 4:30 p.m. to the 1600 block of Booker Ct. in West Baltimore for the shooting. Anyone with information can contact...
When local leaders announced an "extraordinary partnership" to revitalize Baltimore's depressed Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood in 1989, they said the construction and rehabilitation of hundreds of houses would serve as the foundation for a community-wide transformation unlike any before. The...
A man was shot in the head outside a West Baltimore deli, Baltimore police said. The shooting took place at 11:55 a.m. in the Rosemont Homeowners/Tenants neighborhood. The victim's name, age and condition were not released. Crime tape blocked off the short 600 block of Whitmore Ave., where detectives...
Baltimore police identified a man who was fatally shot in West Baltimore Sunday — the city's 200th homicide this year. Police identified the victim as Tymaine Sellman, 19. Police said he was shot multiple times shortly before 7 p.m. in the 500 block Edgewood Street. He was taken to an area hospital...
A man was shot in the hand in Reservoir Hill Monday night, police said. Officers responded to the 900 block of Whitelock Street after 9 p.m., police said. Police did not release any information on a suspect or motive. Central District detectives are investigating, and anyone with information may...
Gold carpentry screws, a Deckmate brand box and a thick pool of blood lay Tuesday morning on a Northwest Baltimore porch, where Baltimore police say a 35-year-old man was shot to death. A neighbor said the victim had purchased the rundown vacant house recently and was rehabilitating it. Two homicide...
Two men were injured in shootings in Baltimore Tuesday night, police said. At about 9 p.m., a 31-year-old man was shot in the back in the 1500 block of E. Ward Ct. in the Gay Street neighborhood of East Baltimore, police said. Across the city, roughly an hour earlier, a 34-year-old man was shot...
Baltimore Police homicide detectives are investigating the discovery of a body that had been set on fire in West Baltimore Monday morning. Police said in a statement that officers were called to the 2700 block of Presstman St., at the address of Rosemont Elementary/Middle School, where they found...
A man was shot dead in the middle of a street in Southwest Baltimore Wednesday night, police said. Officers were called just before 7 p.m. to the first block of S. Catherine Street in the Shipley Hill neighborhood, where they found a man who fire department paramedics pronounced dead from several...
A 29-year-old man was shot in the groin Monday afternoon in West Baltimore, police said. Officers responded at 3:21 p.m. to the 2500 block of Edmondson Ave. in the Rosemont Homeowners/Tenants section, where the man was found with a nonfatal gunshot wound, police said. He was taken to a hospital...
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh named two leaders for the city's housing agencies Thursday, a key step toward fulfilling a pledge to separate the public housing authority and the housing and community development department. Pugh named Janet Abrahams as executive director of the Housing Authority...
When Keney Davis played soccer or tennis, it elicited her aggression, but in the pool as a member of the Paul Laurence Dunbar High School swim team she found peace and motivation. "If I have a bad day in school, I can't wait for swim practice, because in the water you're just floating," said Keney,...
Two Baltimore auditors are locked in a dispute over who is responsible for a $100 million unfunded pension liability for city school employees. City auditor Robert McCarty said a review of the city's 2015 finances brought the issue to light. City officials are convinced that the responsibility for...
Baltimore is launching a special fund to help people whose homes are threatened when they fall behind on city bills, Mayor Catherine Pugh said Wednesday. Officials said the fund is intended to help homeowners avoid having their property sent to tax auction, the controversial process in which investors...
Baltimore City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young met Tuesday with a senior adviser to President Donald J. Trump, pitching the city as a place where the administration could pilot programs designed to help struggling cities. "My mouth and my mind was racing," Young said. "You don't get the...
Calling President Donald J. Trump's recent decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement "ill-advised," the Baltimore City Council unanimously voted Monday to express its intention of upholding the agreement here. The approved resolution, which does not carry the force...
Baltimore officials are working through the city's tax sale files to remove all state and federal property, part of a broad review of the controversial process that helps the city collect some $20 million a year in unpaid bills. Finance Director Henry Raymond said officials began the project after...
State Sen. Nathaniel Oaks, who is facing federal fraud charges, said he intends to remain a legislator as he fights the case. Attorneys for Oaks on Friday asked the judge overseeing his case to reschedule his trial for after the next General Assembly session to avoid a conflict. Reached Friday evening,...
Baltimore officials on Wednesday praised work underway that will dramatically alter the Druid Hill Park reservoir — a significant source of the city's drinking water. The $140 million installation of two underground drinking water tanks, expected to be completed in March 2022, will temporarily...
The Baltimore City Council is expected to pass a measure Monday that would create new protections for contract workers who face being laid off when their employer loses a job to a competitor. Under the proposed law, the new company that takes over the contract would be required to keep on the existing...