Images courtesy of Weather.com Irene is a major category 3 hurricane with winds of 115 mph moving through the Northwest Bahamas and will have significant effects on the Bahamas and eastern North Carolina up to the Northeast.  Irene is centered about 645 miles south of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina and moving NNW at 13 mph. […]

Images courtesy of weather.com The first hurricane of the season is a major one and was just upgraded overnight to a Category 3 storm. The projected path of Hurricane Irene will track across the Bahamas the next couple of days on a path towards the East Coast of the U.S. Friday into the weekend. For […]

Congressman Elijah Cummings is now mourning the loss of his nephew Christopher Cummings. Cummings, 20, and his roommate Jake Carey were shot in an off-campus shooting near Old Dominion University. Carey crawled across the street for help and Cummings passed shortly after. Carey is currently in critical condition. The event happened Friday morning. Our condolences […]

A civil rights group is suing Maryland’s Higher Education Commission for allegedly discriminating against the state’s four historically black colleges. The plaintiffs argue that Morgan State University, Coppin State University, Bowie State University and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore have underdeveloped programs because black schools are funded in a manner that puts predominately white […]

William Donald Schaefer is back to his beloved Baltimore. He is currently lying in state at the rotunda of Baltimore’s City Hall. Yesterday after a short ceremony, mourners were allowed to begin filing in to City Hall. Hundreds of spectators lined Fayette Street to pay their final respects. If you would like to pay your […]

Also backing the proposal is Del. Dan Morhaim, a Baltimore County Democrat who is the General Assembly’s only physician. “I’m convinced that marijuana has a real medical role,” he said. The lawmakers said their legislation to legalize marijuana is tightly crafted to limit marijuana use to patients who have been prescribed the drug by their […]

Also backing the proposal is Del. Dan Morhaim, a Baltimore County Democrat who is the General Assembly’s only physician. “I’m convinced that marijuana has a real medical role,” he said. The lawmakers said their legislation to legalize marijuana is tightly crafted to limit marijuana use to patients who have been prescribed the drug by their […]

Maryland — The mother of a girl struck and killed in a hit-and-run is asking for help from the public in finding the driver.

via: WBALTV.com Voters will be able to cast ballots at 47 locations that will be open from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. every day through Thursday of next week. Early voting made its debut last month, in a six-day period in advance of the primary election. There are five early voting centers in Baltimore City, […]