William H. Cole IV

The North Avenue liquor store where a man was fatally shot last month and that police say is a hub for drug dealers was ordered yesterday to close by Baltimore police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III. Linden Bar and Liquors was found to be in...

Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III is expected to decide by Aug. 22 whether a North Avenue liquor store that authorities say is a haven for violence and drug dealing will be closed for a year. Police officials held an administrative...

In his column "Low-tax ranking bit of a stretch" (Aug. 1), Jay Hancock asked "real Baltimore business people" about the KPMG study that found that Baltimore businesses enjoy the second-lowest tax burden of any large city in the United States and, not...

Baltimore police told Federal Hill residents last night that they will maintain their increased presence in the community indefinitely, continuing the nightly patrols in the aftermath of two killings that shook up the neighborhood in June. The meeting,...

The Baltimore Police Department notified a liquor store and a carryout yesterday that they might be shut down under the city's new public nuisance law because of high levels of criminal activity in the stores. In the past year and a half, police said,...

A man was shot in the head Saturday night at a North Avenue liquor store that has been the target of frequent complaints by neighbors and was ordered shut down earlier this year by the Baltimore liquor board. The unidentified victim was pronounced dead...

Despite repeated complaints about a North Avenue liquor store, a closure notice by Baltimore's liquor board and a weekend homicide at the establishment, Linden Bar and Liquors remained open for business yesterday. That's infuriating, especially after...

Nearly 2,000 residents in Charles Village and Bolton Hill could receive small property tax refunds because of a city error that inflated their tax bills, Mayor Sheila Dixon said yesterday. Dixon's announcement puts to rest a months-long dispute that...

More than eight decades after convicted killer John Snowden professed his innocence all the way to the gallows, Gov. Parris N. Glendening determined yesterday that the man's execution "may well have been a miscarriage of justice" - and granted him a...