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By Chris Kaltenbach

Jul 16, 2015

Some of Baltimore's best-known rap artists, who've been sniping at each other in song over the last several months, walked into the conference room of a Druid

By Justin George

Feb 25, 2015

State Sen. Brian Frosh on Friday called into question Baltimore County Del. Jon Cardin's fitness to be attorney general, citing the endorsement of his Democratic primary rival by local rapper facing human trafficking charges.

State Del. Jon Cardin on Thursday rejected the endorsement of a Baltimore-based rapper after learning the man who calls himself Ski Money is facing charges of human trafficking.

After finishing his Legends of the Summer set with Justin Timberlake, Jay Z left M&T Bank Stadium in a black Cadillac Escalade and headed to Mirage Nightclub for the concert's official after-party, according to the building owner Anthony Ilkhon.

The Baltimore entertainment attorney who represented White House state dinner crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi and "The Wire" actress Felicia "Snoop" Pearson was disbarred Monday after the state's highest court found he had, among other things, overbilled clients and misused money given to him as a retainer.

Fans of Robert Francell Chew, known around the world as Proposition Joe of "The Wire," can take comfort in knowing that friends, family and admirers said goodbye Thursday with a spirited and moving celebration of life ceremony at the Calvin B. Scruggs Funeral Home in east Baltimore.

Two men were sentenced to 10 years in prison this week as federal prosecutors seek to close the books on a large illegal drug ring that they say operated out of Latrobe Homes in East Baltimore.

Bourdain, Omar and Marlo meet up for Caribbean food in Crown Heights.

'The Wire: The Musical': Funny or Die parodies Baltimore's beloved crime-drama series, starring many of the real cast.

Trayvon Martin case has parallels with local Shomrim case

A look behind a drug gang in which federal authorities have gotten more than 20 people to plead guilty, including the actress who played the ruthless killer Snoop on The Wire.

The annual number of killings in Baltimore has fallen below 200 for the first time in more than three decades, a symbolic threshold that seemed elusive for a crime-weary city just four years ago.

The year 2011 as seen through the rear-view mirror, the high- and the low lights of the year in Baltimore and Maryland

Michael Kenneth Williams is feeling lucky these days. The 44-year-old performer known to fans of HBO's "The Wire" as fearless stick-up man Omar Little says there is nothing he's wanted more since the Baltimore-based drama ended than to "just continuously stay working" as an actor.

To rebuild her life, Felicia "Snoop" Pearson had to destroy her own reputation. The actress who portrayed a cold-blooded killer for hire so memorably on three seasons of the HBO cable series "The Wire" pleaded guilty on Monday to a crime she says she didn't commit.

With Felicia "Snoop" Pearson's guilty plea last week to conspiracy to sell heroin, one question being asked by fans of "The Wire" is how other cast members of the Baltimore-based series are doing.

Felicia "Snoop" Pearson isn't the only celeb to turn to a stylist in times of legal troubles

With Felicia "Snoop" Pearson's guilty plea Monday to conspiracy to sell heroin, it seems like a good time to catch up with what some of the other cast members of the Baltimore-based series are doing.

Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, who overcame a troubled childhood and murder conviction to launch an acting career as a drug-gang assassin on HBO's "The Wire," pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy to sell heroin.