Baltimore City

Suspect in city barricade incident identified

By Joe Burris , The Baltimore Sun — Mon, 28 May 2012 16:35:00 GMT

Ansley Turner, 28, found dead after woman, 29, taken to Shock Trauma

A man who police say attacked his girlfriend and shot himself following a barricaded stand-off with police at his Northeast Baltimore home has been identified as Ansley Turner, 28.

With Open Walls Project, Station North becomes a giant canvas

By Tim Swift , The Baltimore Sun — Mon, 28 May 2012 15:49:00 GMT

Nearly two dozen artists from around the globe have painted murals throughout the arts district

Gaia — a young artist who's the brains behind a massive mural project around Baltimore's Station North neighborhood — likes to say the work isn't a traditional political statement. Yet listen to him talk, and he sounds a little bit like a community organizer with an awful lot of spray paint.

UMBC senior joins cross-country ride for cancer victims

By Joe Burris , The Baltimore Sun — Sun, 27 May 2012 21:53:00 GMT

Michelle Wong among 88 students who left the Inner Harbor Sunday on a 70-day bicycle trip

The farthest Michelle Wong had ever ridden before was from Baltimore to Washington, a roughly 50-mile bike trek. But the UMBC senior was unfazed by what lay ahead of her Sunday morning as she embarked on a 70-day bicycle journey from Baltimore to Portland, Ore., as part of the Ulman Cancer Fund for young adults' 4K for Cancer ride.

'Major piece' of Inner Harbor promenade to be upgraded

By Candus Thomson , The Baltimore Sun — Sun, 27 May 2012 20:23:00 GMT

$6.6 million project will give public waterfront access at Harbor East

The city expects to start construction this fall on one of the final sections of the seven-mile Inner Harbor promenade.

City erects 6-foot fence in Tuscany-Canterbury to save grass

By Steve Kilar, The Baltimore Sun — Sun, 27 May 2012 20:21:00 GMT

Fence runs down the West 39th Street median in Tuscany-Canterbury

The Baltimore Department of Transportation has a message for the residents of Tuscany-Canterbury: Do not walk on our grass.

Z on TV: McDonough takes his crime message to city TV

By David Zurawik — Sun, 27 May 2012 14:44:00 GMT

Delegate says he will challenge mayor to debate, wants to buy time on WBFF Fox45

Pat McDonough vowed that he was not going to "roll up under a sofa and apologize" after starting a firestorm of debate in claiming that "mobs of black youth were terrorizing downtown Baltimore." And he certainly is making good on that pledge this holiday weekend.

Another Tilghman involved in a historic moment

By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun — Sun, 27 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT

Washington's aide-de-camp Tench Tilghman raced to Philadelphia to tell Continental Congress the British had surrendered

Several readers wrote me about last week's column that told the story of federal Judge Sarah Tilghman Hughes, a Baltimorean who swore in Lyndon B. Johnson as president aboard Air Force One after the assassination of John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963.

Inner Harbor smell demonstrates bay woes to holiday visitors

By Yvonne Wenger , The Baltimore Sun — Sat, 26 May 2012 22:17:00 GMT

Memorial Day business is still strong, despite fish kill, smell

Memorial Day business is still strong, despite fish kill, smell

Man falls out of car, dies of gunshot wounds after police stop

By Yvonne Wenger , The Baltimore Sun — Sat, 26 May 2012 22:01:09 GMT

Victim one of two homicides early Saturday

Baltimore police pulled over a 22-year-old man for driving the wrong way on a street early Saturday when the victim opened up the door and fell out of vehicle, telling police he had been shot.

JFX fully open; repairs completed early

By Yvonne Wenger , The Baltimore Sun — Sat, 26 May 2012 21:04:00 GMT

Construction finishes ahead of schedule

After more than a month of congestion on the Jones Falls Expressway, officials announced Saturday that emergency repair work on Baltimore's busiest road was finished ahead of schedule and all lanes were open in time for the unofficial start of summer.

Clifton Mansion to be restored

By Mary Gail Hare , The Baltimore Sun — Sat, 26 May 2012 21:02:00 GMT

19th-century home set for $7 million renovation

Clifton Mansion still towers over Baltimore, but decades of neglect are eroding its underpinnings.

University of Maryland, Baltimore to revamp teaching on pain

By Meredith Cohn , The Baltimore Sun — Sat, 26 May 2012 20:24:00 GMT

Under federal program, University of Maryland, Baltimore to address pain management in curriculum

As part of a federal project aimed at better treating pain, the University of Maryland, Baltimore will begin revamping the way it teaches future doctors, dentists, nurses and pharmacists.

Mayor donates Orioles skybox tickets to 27 nonprofits, schools

By Luke Broadwater, The Baltimore Sun — Sat, 26 May 2012 20:11:29 GMT

Mayor's daughter's school on list; Common Cause calls for formal policy

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has donated use of her office's skybox at Oriole Park at Camden Yards to 27 nonprofit or charitable organizations this year, including her daughter's school, according to a list provided by the mayor's office.

Memorial Day weekend patrols stepped up after 8 are shot

By Justin Fenton , The Baltimore Sun — Sat, 26 May 2012 03:59:19 GMT

Six are struck in triple shootings in Baltimore Thursday night

Eight people were shot — including six in two triple shootings — Thursday night in Baltimore, an "intolerable" burst of violence that killed three and which police said would spur extra patrols going into Memorial Day weekend.

Inmate serving murder sentence escapes

By Kevin Rector, The Baltimore Sun — Sat, 26 May 2012 03:00:00 GMT

Man serving 10-year murder sentence left detention center Friday morning

An inmate serving a 10-year prison sentence for second-degree murder walked out of a Baltimore detention facility on Friday morning, never reported to his scheduled work-release job and was considered escaped by Friday afternoon, according to Maryland State Police.

Man in crash that forced office off JFX pleads guilty

By Peter Hermann , The Baltimore Sun — Sat, 26 May 2012 00:32:29 GMT

Suspect is fined, order to perform community service

The motorist involved in an accident that sent a Baltimore police officer over the side of elevated Interstate 83 has been convicted of three traffic offenses, closing one chapter of a crash that may have ended the officer's career.

Jacques Kelly: A dignified tribute to those who served their country

Jacques Kelly — Fri, 25 May 2012 23:28:08 GMT

Baltimore National is tranquil, immaculate military cemetery

The hauntingly beautiful greensward that straddles the city and Baltimore County lines along Frederick Avenue was dedicated 71 years ago this month. Called, justly, "Little Arlington," Baltimore National Cemetery is where the Boy Scouts were to arrive this evening to begin the Memorial Day custom of placing small flags on all the graves of the military veterans and their spouses interred here.

Police: Man photographed teen girl in Inner Harbor bathroom stall

By Kevin Rector, The Baltimore Sun — Fri, 25 May 2012 22:34:00 GMT

Man in Harborplace bathroom caught on camera, wanted by police

Baltimore police are searching for a man who allegedly took a photograph of a 15-year-old girl in an Inner Harbor bathroom last month by sticking his camera phone underneath her stall.

Baltimore Insider: Hon trademark dead...or is it?

By Jill Rosen — Fri, 25 May 2012 20:11:00 GMT

After celebrity Chef Gordon Ramsay and his show "Kitchen Nightmares"visited Cafe Hon last year, Denise Whiting agreed to kill her trademark of the word "Hon."

Suspect in Craigslist robberies arrested at city library, police say

By Justin Fenton, The Baltimore Sun — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:30:00 GMT

A man suspected in a rash of recent Craigslist robberies was taken into custody at a downtown library, where police say he was using a computer - possibly to set up more attacks.

Gordon Ramsay's 'Kitchen Nightmares' heading back to Cafe Hon

By Jill Rosen — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:11:00 GMT

It looks like the "Kitchen Nightmare" might not be over for Baltimore's Cafe Hon .

Police continue to investigate spate of shootings in city

By Peter Hermann — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:23:00 GMT

Baltimore police are continuing this morning to investigate a spate of shootings that left two people dead and five others wounded — two of them critically — within two hours on Thursday night, and on opposite sides of the city.

2 dead, 5 injured in three separate shootings in Baltimore

By Kevin Rector, The Baltimore Sun — Fri, 25 May 2012 02:30:41 GMT

Homicide detectives investigating

One person was killed and five others were injured in two separate triple shootings in Baltimore on Thursday night, according to police. Another man was fatally shot in North Baltimore near the campus of Loyola University Maryland.

Kiefaber's home auctioned off by state

By John-John Williams IV , The Baltimore Sun — Fri, 25 May 2012 00:03:00 GMT

$75,000 bid wins ex-Senator Theatre owner's Sparks residence

In less than five minutes, Tom Kiefaber said, he was left with nothing.

Obituary: Lt. Cmdr. Wesley A. Brown, broke color barrier at Naval Academy

By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun — Thu, 24 May 2012 22:47:08 GMT

He was the first African-American graduate; field house is named in his honor

Retired Lt. Cmdr. Wesley A. Brown, who broke the color barrier at the Naval Academy and was its first African-American graduate in 1949, died Tuesday of cancer at Springhouse of Silver Spring Assisted Living.