Baltimore News

Having just closed his nearly full April / May 2012 Journal , Luke Hochevar set his pen down and looked across the Inner Harbor of Baltimore.

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.

Monday's NCAA tournament final will be an all- Maryland affair. The Maryland men's lacrosse team punched its ticket to the national title game with a 16-10 thumping of No.

The ARC Gloria, from Colombia, sails by the Statue of Liberty to participate in Fleet Week, which this year marks the bicentennial of the War of 1812.

A powerful stench was in the air Saturday at the Inner Harbor as 12-year-olds Alison Chase and Marissa Westerbeke hunched over the water's edge, studying tiny crabs floating to the surface.

Henry Hopkins, the great-great-great nephew of Johns Hopkins, who heads the Friends of Clifton Mansion and is co-chair of the Civic Works Building Committee, looks out on the grounds from the arcade porch.

Superintendent Tab Kramer, left, of Lewis Contractors, and Vincent Lancisi, artistic director of Everyman Theatre, in the upper lobby of the old Town Theatre, which is under renovation in order to become the new home of Everyman Theatre.

A work group appointed by the governor will convene next week to study the issue of expanded gaming in the state, but some critics say their conclusions, and another General Assembly special session, already may be a done deal.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced Saturday that the emergency repair work along the Jones Falls Expressway, or JFX, is complete.

The Baltimore County Public Librar y A will launch its summer reading program, the "Summer Reading Club," for Baltimoreans on June 12.

News Release [ print-friendly page ] For Immediate Release Date: May 25, 2012 Contact: GS Shawn Ellerman Number: 202-307-3936 Leader in East Baltimore Drug Gang Gets Long Prison Sentence --64 Defendants Charged for Dealing at Latrobe Homes: Includes Heroin, Ton Quantities of Marijuana-- May 25 - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced ... (more)

City police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi identified the victim only as a 47-year-old woman, who was shot Thursday shortly after 6 p.m. in the 2500 block of West Fayette Street near Shipley Street.

The hauntingly beautiful greensward that straddles the city and Baltimore County lines along Frederick Avenue was dedicated 71 years ago this month.

BALTIMORE -- Detectives arrested a man in the Baltimore library on Friday morning for four robberies committed after contacting the victims using Craigslist.

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." She did as she said.

Police arrested a 28-year-old Baltimore man who attempted to swallow a bag full of crack cocaine outside the Crossroads Tavern in Anne Arundel County early Friday, police said.

Walking along the dam at Loch Raven Reservoir to take in the scenery seems like an extreme sport at best, and entirely illegal at worst, but not tomorrow.

Although a Charlottesville, Va., jury found one man - athlete George Huguely V - criminally responsible for the beating death of Yeardley Love , his former girlfriend and fellow lacrosse player at the University of Virginia , the young woman's mother wants to hold his coaches culpable, too.

Baltimore police are seeking help to identify a possible suspect to the April 24 shooting death of a 59-year-old man who was shot while sitting on the front porch of a home in West Baltimore.

Cycle Gear Inc., the nation's largest retailer of motorcycle apparel and accessories, opened its 96th and newest retail store in Laurel, Maryland.