As newsroom employees continue their fight for wage increases, The Sun is losing three well-known staffers to other jobs. City Hall reporter Ian Duncan is leaving for The Washington Post, and investigative reporter Doug Donovan and opinion editor Andrew Green are taking positions at Johns Hopkins University, sources at the newspaper confirmed.
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Port Covington Community Investment Poised to Launch. Promises to be fulfilled?
Editor’s note: This article won second place (Division O) in the Growth and Land Use category of the Maryland, Delaware, and D.C. Press Association’s 2020 Contest. Read our other award-winning pieces here. In 2016, Baltimoreans organized to demand community investment from a developer seeking one of the largest subsidies in city history. Sagamore Development had planned […]
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Young says he is scheduled to meet with FOP; union says otherwise
Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young said today he is scheduled to meet with leadership from the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3 as the police union continues to lob social media criticism of the city’s crime-fighting efforts. The union representing sworn officers, sergeants and lieutenants, however, said the meeting was supposed to take place this […]
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T.J. Smith, the voice of the post-Freddie Gray Baltimore Police Department, resigns
In an announcement that shocked more than a few in the city today, just one day after the news broke that Baltimore will soon be seeing its fourth police commissioner in 2018 alone, Baltimore Police Department chief spokesman T.J. Smith said he has resigned.
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Seven years after closing it, city reopens a renovated Harlem Park Rec Center
Albert Wiley kept hearing the complaints on the evening news: Responding to ongoing crime involving city youth, Baltimore residents were telling the TV cameras that teens need a place to keep busy, engaged and productive, away from crime. Wiley, president of the Harlem Park Neighborhood Council, wanted to be part of the solution. And it […]
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Tuesday Afternoon Headlines: Supreme Court declines to hear Freddie Gray cops’ case; Fact checking optimistic claims about Port Covington as a tech hub; and more
Maryland Challenges Whitaker as Acting AG in Court — WYPR Man, 31, dies at Baltimore Central Booking after being taken to hospital because of medical concerns — The Sun Baltimore teacher assaulted by student speaks out with forgiveness — WBAL-TV Port Covington Aims To Become Global Geek Capital With Cyber Town, USA — Baltimore magazine […]
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Trinacria’s Mount Vernon location closed ‘until further notice’
The four-year-old Mount Vernon bar-and-restaurant outpost of beloved local Italian deli Trinacria has shut down indefinitely, according to a sign posted on its front door.
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Baltimore Fishbowl’s Top 10 news stories of 2019
Baltimoreans would be forgiven for thinking the last year was really more like five or 10 years. All the turbulence and uncertainty from various scandals and seismic changes had many residents wondering, “What could possibly happen next?” Here’s a breakdown of some of the biggest stories from the last year. 1. After being swept up […]
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Thursday Morning Headlines: How crime changed after Freddie Gray’s death; Local high schoolers can study to become 911 dispatchers; and more
New course aims to help high school seniors gain careers as 911 call takers — WBAL-TV Baltimore police stopped noticing crime after Freddie Gray’s death. A wave of killings followed. — USA Today Survival Skills — Baltimore magazine The Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service has a new place to find pro bono cases — Technical.ly Team […]
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USA Today analysis: After Freddie Gray’s death, BPD officers decreased ‘on-view’ police work
Baltimore police still respond to calls for help quickly, but following the death of Freddie Gray and trials of officers charged in Gray’s death, the number of cops who report suspicious activity on the streets has plummeted, according to a new analysis by USA Today.
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Cash seized by police being used to send lieutenant cleared in Freddie Gray’s death to Nashville conference
Baltimore police Lt. Brian Rice, one of six city police officers charged and later cleared in the in-custody death of Freddie Gray, is headed to a policing conference in Nashville next week. The $1,905.58 trip will be funded not by local, state or federal funds or grants, but by assets seized by Baltimore police, according […]
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Coalition of journalists, watchdogs sue for right to broadcast court recordings
A coalition of local journalists, watchdogs and legal groups filed a federal lawsuit today arguing for the right to broadcast recordings of criminal trials in Maryland. Under a section of Maryland’s Code of Criminal Procedure, the publication of audio and visual records from a trial, hearing, motion or argument during a criminal proceeding is forbidden, […]
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Keith Davis Jr. convicted on second-degree murder, gun charges
A Baltimore jury on Friday convicted Keith Davis Jr. in the 2015 murder of Pimlico security guard Kevin Jones, bringing to an end the fourth trial of the case that previously resulted in two mistrials and a conviction that was thrown out. Davis was charged with counts of second-degree and use of a firearm in […]
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Event Pick: Rise Bmore, a spoken and musical commemoration of Freddie Gray’s death
On this day three years ago, doctors pronounced Freddie Gray dead at University of Maryland Shock Trauma, a week after Baltimore police officers dragged him into a van for a fateful ride leading to his death. Tonight, local poets, writers, musicians and others will honor the 25-year-old whose death at the hands of police set […]
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Q&A: Mary Miller on investing in Baltimore businesses, working with police commissioner to reduce crime and more
The second in a series of interviews with the top-polling contenders for the Democratic nomination for mayor. Despite never holding elected office before–and in large part because of that fact–former U.S. Treasury official Mary Miller hopes to be the political outsider who can help “right the ship” in Baltimore City. “I think that someone who […]
