Devin Allen West Baltimore photographer Devin Allen has achieved many accomplishments over the past four years. He joined Under Armour as a staff photographer, traveled to Asia on multiple occasions to photograph NBA star Steph Curry, became the first Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship recipient and published his debut photography book, “A Beautiful Ghetto,” among other […]
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Former police spokesman T.J. Smith officially joins the mayor’s race
Former Baltimore police spokesman T.J. Smith today launched his candidacy for mayor, pitching himself as someone who can shake-up the political status quo. Standing a short distance from the site where his younger brother Dionay was fatally shot, Smith said the city’s political class has become fixated with 300 annual murders as a measuring stick […]
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T.J. Smith leaving post as Johnny O’s press secretary, says announcement coming soon
Former Baltimore police spokesman and rumored mayoral candidate T.J. Smith is leaving his position as press secretary for Baltimore County Executive John Olszewski Jr. after nine months on the job.
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Baltimost: Denise Koch
Denise Koch Much has changed since Denise Koch joined WJZ-TV’s newsroom in 1982. There’s its very branding–it switched from ABC affiliation to CBS in 1994; the endless changing of the guard for her local household-name colleagues on-air; and, perhaps most crucially, there’s the nature of the news itself. “Because of the 24-hour news cycle with […]
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Sonja Sohn arrested in Outer Banks on drug charges
Actress Sonja Sohn, best known locally as Det. Kima Greggs on “The Wire” and for her more recent HBO documentary “Baltimore Rising,” was arrested over the weekend on drug charges in the Outer Banks.
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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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The Sun loses three key staffers as negotiations on a new contract continue
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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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.
