MOBTOWN BEAT

Crime Coordinator Charged With Crimes

A disbarred lawyer who has been working part time for a city agency on public safety matters has been charged in a theft scheme. 

Heroin Math

The figure was momentous: 20,000 people are thought to be addicted to drugs in Baltimore City, according to Rachel Indek, spokeswoman for Behavioral Health System Baltimore, the city’s quasi-...

The Dealer Returns

By the time he was in his mid-20s in the early 1990s, Fred Douglas Brooks III claimed he was one of Baltimore’s biggest heroin dealers, using 50 aliases as he sat atop an organization with 30-plus employees and drug...

Elder Scare

The Baltimore City fire marshal fined an assisted-living facility $2,500 for bolting five separate doors shut last week, after a medical call brought inspectors in for an unscheduled inspection. 

The Mizeur Effect

After the polls closed at 8 p.m. on June 24, it quickly became clear that Heather Mizeur was not going to be the Democrats’ standard-bearer heading into November’s general election, much less Maryland’s first gay, woman...

Brewing Up Change

At the start of a recent morning interview in one of the book-lined rooms of Thomas Ward's Bolton Hill house, the former longtime Baltimore City Circuit Court judge and just-appointed chair of the Baltimore City Liquor...

The State of the State's Attorney Race

Marilyn Mosby's campaign office is in a seemingly otherwise vacant building at the corner of Eutaw Place and North Avenue. In the basement, past several workers making signs, back next to what looks like an abandoned...

The State of Queer Politics

Meredith Moise has spent a lifetime working as a community organizer and offers a unique perspective on what has changed over the years and whether things have gotten better for LGBTQ folks.

Gifted and Budgeted

Almost a year after Baltimore City Schools CEO Andrés Alonso left Baltimore, some city officials and nonprofit leaders are quietly trying to change a central pillar of his leadership policy. The battle has so far...

Pet Peeve

Last June, long before activists began a campaign to protest conditions and policies at the animal shelter run by Baltimore County Animal Services (BCAS) in Baldwin, Md., cat-rescuer Denise Arnot says she learned what can...

Tenant Council President Fights The Power

Floyd Vines steps through the door to the lobby of the J. Van Story Branch Apartments on the unit block of W. 20th St. and greets a series of people there. This is his lobby now, and these are his people, since he was...

Banned, On the Run

Baltimore police stopped talking to Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton completely eight weeks ago after the paper published the name of a police officer who had been shot several hours before the cops made the...

CP Photographer Accused of Raping His Daughter

Ryan "RaRah" Stevenson, a longtime, award-winning contributing photographer for City Paper, is awaiting a criminal jury trial scheduled for July on charges that he raped his 14-year-old daughter at his home last...

Positively 26th Street

Residents of 26th Street displaced by the April 30 landslide were happy to see Reginald Scriber, the Housing Authority of Baltimore City's deputy commissioner for community services, after they were told they would have...

City Paper's discovery of a recent sewer-leak spike along Greenspring Avenue highlights pollution's persistence

Raw sewage, which is supposed to be carried to treatment plants via underground pipes, overflowed 16 times since last summer along a five-block stretch of Greenspring Avenue between Cold Spring Lane and Northern Parkway...

How legislators in Baltimore City's six districts fared in Annapolis this election year

Now that primary elections in Maryland are held in June rather than September, state legislators' performances in the 90-day sessions in Annapolis, which end in April, are fresh meat on the campaign trail as voters...

Baltimore Sheriff John Anderson's re-election campaigns are getting harder

In the 1990s and 2000s, longtime Baltimore Sheriff John W. Anderson (D) coasted easily to re-election, swatting down perennial challenges by the man he succeeded, Shelton Stewart, who was forced out after a 1988...

The BMA regains a long-lost Renoir

A U.S. district court judge ended the dispute over "On the Shore of the Seine," a stolen Renoir painting, on Friday, Jan. 10 when he awarded ownership of the painting to the Baltimore Museum of Art, from which the...

A Baltimore company gave hundreds a chance-maybe their last chance-for a high school degree

It was 10 p.m. when the lights finally went out at Digit All Systems on New Year's Eve. The last of the day's 89 test-takers packed up their stuff, and so did Joseph H. Sutton III and Mickey Mason.

Baltimore is about to sell off its public housing. Someone is going to make money-and that's the plan.

It was only a month ago that most Baltimoreans learned that the Housing Authority of Baltimore City (HABC) is contracting to sell off about half of its 10,300 federally subsidized low- income apartments to private...