Spike in killings undermines recent gains, prompts Baltimore police to consider new tactics A flurry of shootings and killings over the weekend capped Baltimore's deadliest month of 2008, prompting city officials and police to...
M urder and mayhem were Matt Jablow 's bread and butter as a WBAL newsman, Baltimore police spokesman and America's Most Wanted producer. Now he's offering more life-affirming fare as a "Webumentarian."
BY BEN NUCKOLS • ASSOCIATED PRESS • November 30, 2008 BALTIMORE -- The city where Edgar Allan Poe died will celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth with a year's worth of exhibits and events, including a funeral...
As DeKalb County's next chief executive officer prepares to move into the top-floor corner office of the county administrative building, his kingmaker is churning through paperwork trying to figure out what makes DeKalb tick.
BALTIMORE (WJZ) ― Thousands of people pack into the Baltimore Convention Center for a Thanksgiving dinner. Jessica Kartalija reports the doors opened to the Baltimore Convention Center around 11 Wednesday morning. Â People were...
By Lorraine Mirabella | lorraine.mirabella@baltsun.com Two large Baltimore employers are planning to either move some jobs from the city or sell their buildings, creating new office vacancies in a difficult real estate market....
Richard Sher, who announced his departure from WJZ this week after 33 years of reporting and anchoring, says he isn't completely done with the news biz. Among the "many accomplishments" listed on his new Web site,...
By Justin Fenton | justin.fenton@baltsun.com Baltimore is in the midst of its worst stretch of violence "in a long time," Mayor Sheila Dixon told a group of residents tonight in the Southwestern part of the city. "It disturbs...
Recently Mayor Sheila Dixon characterized the current economic crisis as "worse than the Great Depression" ("Mayor orders cuts," Nov. 15). This is simply not accurate. During the Great Depression, the unemployment rate reached...
By Timothy B. Clark November 26, 2008 In September, the Office of Management and Budget released its final evaluation of the performance of federal programs. This was the last act of OMB's five-year-old PART endeavor, the...