Via: Foxbaltimore.com A jury will hear closing arguments in the trial of a campaign consultant accused of using Election Day robocalls to suppress black voter turnout in the 2010 gubernatorial election. After six days of testimony in the trial of Julius Henson, a consultant for Republican former Gov. Robert Ehrlich’s campaign during his rematch with […]
Via: Foxbaltimore.com Police in Maryland are investigating a shooting inside a church office that left one woman dead and another seriously wounded. Thursday’s shooting occurred at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Ellicott City. Howard County Police say a church custodian called 911 to report the shooting about 5:20 p.m. One woman was pronounced dead at […]
Via: Foxbaltimore.com A convenient store owner fires back at what would be a robber. It all happened last night in North Baltimore. Wednesday nighty just before closing a man with a mask came running into the convenient store and pointed a gun at the store’s employees. The store has been hit before and that is […]
James Joseph Brown is the originator of funk music and is a major figure of 20th century popular music and dance. Brown was born in Barnwell, South Carolina on May 3, 1933. In 1955, Brown and Bobby Byrd‘s sister Sarah performed in a group called “The Gospel Starlighters”. Eventually, Brown joined Bobby Byrd’s vocal group, […]
TMZ reports that NFL player Junior Seau has passed away due to a self-inflicted gun shot wound. The player was found dead in his home in Oceanside, CA by his housekeeper. Law enforcement believes that the player did indeed shoot himself. Seau was 43 years-old and now leaves behind a wife and three children. Sources say […]
More than 100 firefighters, 13 engines and 12 trucks responded to a four-alarm fire at Tyler Perry’s studio complex in Atlanta on Tuesday night, the source of which has yet to be determined. An emergency call was placed at 8:41 p.m. when the first alarm was sounded, and a fire rescue team arrived minutes later. […]
Via: Foxbaltimore.com A judge has sentenced a broker to more than three years in prison for her role in a mortgage fraud scheme that resulted in nearly $5 million in fraudulent loans. The Maryland U.S. attorney’s office says 60-year-old Mary Anne Dean, of Severna Park, Md., was sentenced Tuesday to 37 months in prison for […]
Via: Foxbaltimore.com Prince George’s County police are searching for three men in connection with a carjacking near the University of Maryland campus in College Park. Police say the carjacking occurred about 11:15 p.m. Tuesday in the 4500 block of Hartwick Road, about three blocks from Fraternity Row. Authorities say a 35-year-old man was trying to […]
Via: Foxbaltimore.com Builders of Hope and its partners recently announced they expect to begin renovating 500 properties near Johns Hopkins Hospital into affordable and energy-efficient homes over the next year and a half. The group plans to invest up to $50 million in Baltimore and Atlanta in a pilot program to repopulate blighted neighborhoods. Nancy Welsh, […]
Via: Foxbaltimore.com Police say officers were on routine patrol in the 600 block of W. Ostend Street when they discovered security personnel from a nightclub performing CPR on the woman on a sidewalk about 1 a.m. Sunday. The woman was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead. She has been identified as Karen […]
