It's official, and the WSJ calls it "among the least surprising potential bankruptcies ever."
Horrible news for Sun employees.
And in other grim news, the NYTimes Co. is planning to borrow against its building to stay afloat.
:(
Monday, December 8, 2008
218, 219
Good Jeebus!
A 14-year-old boy was shot to death while taking fruit to an elderly neighbor!
and Darrell Keith, 24, was shot by two unknown men near Park Heights.
Head of the police union Robert Cherry attributes recent homicide spikes to cuts in police overtime, Col. Rick Hite blames "desperate times," and Hermann says "we're just stuck with the rhetoric"
A 14-year-old boy was shot to death while taking fruit to an elderly neighbor!
and Darrell Keith, 24, was shot by two unknown men near Park Heights.
Head of the police union Robert Cherry attributes recent homicide spikes to cuts in police overtime, Col. Rick Hite blames "desperate times," and Hermann says "we're just stuck with the rhetoric"
Sunday, December 7, 2008
copious amounts of makeup fighting the ravages of time
The York Daily Record explains Highlandtown to Pennsylvanians: "You look at these women. You can get an STD just looking at them."
Tribune = Bankrupt?
Uh oh. The Wally Jay reports that the Tribune Co., owner of the Baltimore Sun, is "preparing for a possible filing for bankruptcy-court protection as soon as this week." Yike! "The company's cash flow may not be enough to cover nearly $1 billion in interest payments due this year, and Tribune owes a $512 million debt payment in June." The company's been staying ahead of its debt payments so far by selling off assets, but is running out of options.
More from the NYT
More from the NYT
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A man died after being shot in the face in Mt. Vernon
A robbery suspect was reportedly shot after attempting to run a city officer over with his car.
Spotcrime reports a shooting and stabbing on Denmore Ave. near the Pimlico race course.
A 15-year-old boy was arrested for the Sept. murder of Derrick Reed, 15 (#161).
Vocab word of the day: poltroonish, as in, are poltroonish gang members ritually murdering women on Halloween as part of an initiation rite?
Hermann talks to the parents of Annie McCann, who died mysteriously in the city.
& speaking of mysterious deaths, The Examiner makes a good point: even if you buy chief ME Fowler's explanation for the classification of hundreds of deaths as 'undetermined', that still doesn't excuse the office's violation of freedom of information laws!
A robbery suspect was reportedly shot after attempting to run a city officer over with his car.
Spotcrime reports a shooting and stabbing on Denmore Ave. near the Pimlico race course.
A 15-year-old boy was arrested for the Sept. murder of Derrick Reed, 15 (#161).
Vocab word of the day: poltroonish, as in, are poltroonish gang members ritually murdering women on Halloween as part of an initiation rite?
Hermann talks to the parents of Annie McCann, who died mysteriously in the city.
& speaking of mysterious deaths, The Examiner makes a good point: even if you buy chief ME Fowler's explanation for the classification of hundreds of deaths as 'undetermined', that still doesn't excuse the office's violation of freedom of information laws!
Saturday, December 6, 2008
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An unid'd man shot to death in CHuM.
Allegation: teen Timothy Oxendine, indicted for murder last Wednesday, was being bullied by victim Markel Williams.
At Carver vo-tech High, witnesses say a student punched a school police officer with a closed fist, then the officer jumped on top of the student and beat him with a stick!
"An internal review of the incident is being conducted"
Police to stoopin' teens: "You'll be in a place with no homies ... You will understand what it's like to feel vulnerable, about what it means to be sexed into a gang." (?)
Allegation: teen Timothy Oxendine, indicted for murder last Wednesday, was being bullied by victim Markel Williams.
At Carver vo-tech High, witnesses say a student punched a school police officer with a closed fist, then the officer jumped on top of the student and beat him with a stick!
"An internal review of the incident is being conducted"
Police to stoopin' teens: "You'll be in a place with no homies ... You will understand what it's like to feel vulnerable, about what it means to be sexed into a gang." (?)
Friday, December 5, 2008
ME's Office= Sketchy?
"The state medical examiner is refusing to release basic information — full names and locations — about hundreds of deaths classified as 'undetermined' in Baltimore." The ME's office currently has about 700 deaths in the "undetermined" category, says Peter Hermann (apparently the only guy in the state the ME will speak to).
a 16-year-old girl allegedly stabbed her grandfather in the back six times
... more on the murder of Dawn Williams-Stewart, who was apparently killed trying to leave her psycho husband
a 16-year-old girl allegedly stabbed her grandfather in the back six times
... more on the murder of Dawn Williams-Stewart, who was apparently killed trying to leave her psycho husband
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Inactive, Unclassified
Five years after the death of Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Luna, the case is 'inactive'
Janis on one of the city's hundreds of "unclassifed" deaths
Judge's son pleads guilty: some apples actually fall pretty far from the tree
Janis on one of the city's hundreds of "unclassifed" deaths
Judge's son pleads guilty: some apples actually fall pretty far from the tree
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
#215, and a policewoman stealing cars?
... and what other shiteousness did we miss? Well... eight murders, for starters, including:
A man shot to death in the 3400 block of Park Heights Ave., Hermann reports it was a drug-revenge killing, ravaging, yet defining, the neighborhood
Four homicide victims ID'd: Perrish Parker, 14; Darren Davis, 26; Troy Brown, 45; Alton Alston, 19.
In other craptacular news,
"A Baltimore police officer and her husband are now the targets of an expanding investigation into vehicles stolen from the city’s Pulaski Highway impound lot, a law enforcement source told The Examiner this week."
Methadone mom Vernice Harris is reportedly not doing so well in rehab.
A PA former police officer was arrested for abducting and raping a heroin addict
But in better news, county police arrested one Rex Wesley for the murder of Donna Brown (ex-wife of Warren), and made arrests in two other murders.
Demented dad Mark Castillo was zapped with a Tazer when he tried to walk out of a courtroom in MoCo
Over at the BJ watch, anticipation is building for Empriss' court date
... and Michael Phelps is dating a stripper.
A man shot to death in the 3400 block of Park Heights Ave., Hermann reports it was a drug-revenge killing, ravaging, yet defining, the neighborhood
Four homicide victims ID'd: Perrish Parker, 14; Darren Davis, 26; Troy Brown, 45; Alton Alston, 19.
In other craptacular news,
"A Baltimore police officer and her husband are now the targets of an expanding investigation into vehicles stolen from the city’s Pulaski Highway impound lot, a law enforcement source told The Examiner this week."
Methadone mom Vernice Harris is reportedly not doing so well in rehab.
A PA former police officer was arrested for abducting and raping a heroin addict
But in better news, county police arrested one Rex Wesley for the murder of Donna Brown (ex-wife of Warren), and made arrests in two other murders.
Demented dad Mark Castillo was zapped with a Tazer when he tried to walk out of a courtroom in MoCo
Over at the BJ watch, anticipation is building for Empriss' court date
... and Michael Phelps is dating a stripper.
Friday, November 28, 2008
Friday
Domestic killings and police shootings in Baltimore County are apparently free of gender bias.
Donny Moses on a West Baltimore Thanksgiving day triple stabbing: "It was a family gathering, a family argument and a family cutting."
An Arnold man was shot in Annapolis early this morning, and a Hagerstown man was stabbed near the Washington County Hospital.
Hermann on Shock Trauma's attempts to lower DWIs.
Donny Moses on a West Baltimore Thanksgiving day triple stabbing: "It was a family gathering, a family argument and a family cutting."
An Arnold man was shot in Annapolis early this morning, and a Hagerstown man was stabbed near the Washington County Hospital.
Hermann on Shock Trauma's attempts to lower DWIs.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
205, 206
An un-ID'd man was fatally shot on St. Lo Dr. near Lake Clifton High School yesterday evening, and police are unsure whether the victim is a teen or adult.
A few hours earlier, a dead man was found in a BMW in Cockeysville.
39-year-old Isiah Benjamin was the man who was fatally shot while sitting in his girlfriend's car in the 6600 block of Eberle Ct. on Saturday night.
Michelle Ha is getting into the Thanksgiving spirit.
Tips on how to shop safe, including "book it to the car and hop in."
A few hours earlier, a dead man was found in a BMW in Cockeysville.
39-year-old Isiah Benjamin was the man who was fatally shot while sitting in his girlfriend's car in the 6600 block of Eberle Ct. on Saturday night.
Michelle Ha is getting into the Thanksgiving spirit.
Tips on how to shop safe, including "book it to the car and hop in."
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
The naked preacher
David Briggs, the alleged nutso who allegedly slashed Aysha Ring's throat, allegedly likes to preach naked. (WJZ has video, but none of it's nekkid.)
Baltimore's schools are as wacky as ever: students attack teachers, parents attack teachers, students attack each other, students attack bathrooms... all we need now is a little bit of teacher-on-teacher action.
Hey, looks like the good folks at North Ave. might be running things at Jessup, too.
The owner of a shady moving company offered to email proof of his company's trustworthiness to Luke B., but the email has yet to arrive.
Ha ha ha, funny funny, ha, that's a good joke. Jackass.
Baltimore's schools are as wacky as ever: students attack teachers, parents attack teachers, students attack each other, students attack bathrooms... all we need now is a little bit of teacher-on-teacher action.
Hey, looks like the good folks at North Ave. might be running things at Jessup, too.
The owner of a shady moving company offered to email proof of his company's trustworthiness to Luke B., but the email has yet to arrive.
Ha ha ha, funny funny, ha, that's a good joke. Jackass.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Detectives in the county arrested David Aaron Briggs, 23, for the the murder of Aysha Ring; police say Briggs and Ring didn't know each other.
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A quadruple shooting in the Southwest, in the first block of N. Monastery Avenue, and the victims are reportedly all juveniles, & sounds like they're all still alive!
A man shot to death in Worser Waverly.
More on the teen-on-teen murder at William H. Lemmel Middle School
Homicide victim #194 was ID'd as Donte Graham, 21.
#196 was named as Charles Hogans, 45.
What the?! Tenants evicted over management company's unpaid water bills
City jury awards tugboat deckhand $7.1 million
Narcotics, murder, child abuse, kidnapping a minor... all on Wednesday's criminal court docket
QTD:
A man shot to death in Worser Waverly.
More on the teen-on-teen murder at William H. Lemmel Middle School
Homicide victim #194 was ID'd as Donte Graham, 21.
#196 was named as Charles Hogans, 45.
What the?! Tenants evicted over management company's unpaid water bills
City jury awards tugboat deckhand $7.1 million
Narcotics, murder, child abuse, kidnapping a minor... all on Wednesday's criminal court docket
QTD:
"there is a strong undercurrent in this city that the Harris murder was given significant[ly] more attention, resources, and determination than hardly any other murders get. And only the 'connected' have the police on their side."Or, Mr. Cynicalpants, maybe the crime lab's now cleared the backlog of 24,000 DNA samples they had last year, and these "perps'" samples just happened to be next in line!
Monday, November 24, 2008
Funeral tomorrow
at 11 a.m. at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen on Charles Street for former Baltimore police officer and school teacher Samuel Hicks, killed in the line of duty as an FBI agent in PA.
201, 202, 203
"Three killed in shootings within three hours in Baltimore; fourth victim injured in first shooting"
Adama Diara, 22, was the victim of what police say was an attempted robbery gone bad. The deuce ID's 6 p.m.'s victim as Angelo Ford, 49.
No bail for Timothy Oxendine, 14, accused of stabbing 15-year-old Markel Williams to death behind Lemmel Middle School in West Baltimore
In the county, Aysha Dawn Ring, 24, died after her throat was slashed at Charing Cross Liquors on Saturday, police published a video still of the suspect but say they don't know yet who the guy was or what his motive might have been.
Have you seen any of these three missing Maryland teens?
Adama Diara, 22, was the victim of what police say was an attempted robbery gone bad. The deuce ID's 6 p.m.'s victim as Angelo Ford, 49.
No bail for Timothy Oxendine, 14, accused of stabbing 15-year-old Markel Williams to death behind Lemmel Middle School in West Baltimore
In the county, Aysha Dawn Ring, 24, died after her throat was slashed at Charing Cross Liquors on Saturday, police published a video still of the suspect but say they don't know yet who the guy was or what his motive might have been.
Have you seen any of these three missing Maryland teens?
Friday, November 21, 2008
a little less death
Overdose deaths in the city have allegedly gone down by 24 percent, and methadone overdoses are down by half!
?: 67% of overdose victims were male.
Why would that be?
?: 67% of overdose victims were male.
Why would that be?
199, 200
A 15-year-old student was fatally stabbed outside William H. Lemmel Middle School this afternoon.
Veronica Williams, 28, the woman stabbed by her husband by Eastside District Court on North Avenue, died yesterday. She's just been granted a restraining order moments before.
Juwanna know how a car got off the city impound lot?
No gag order in the Ken Harris murder case.
Veronica Williams, 28, the woman stabbed by her husband by Eastside District Court on North Avenue, died yesterday. She's just been granted a restraining order moments before.
Juwanna know how a car got off the city impound lot?
No gag order in the Ken Harris murder case.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Armed robbery conviction
A Baltimore City jury convicted Jermaine Southern AKA Swilling, 35, of the 400 block of E. Eager St. of two counts of armed robbery and two counts of use of a handgun in the commission of a crime of violence today following a two day trial... how much time will he get?
Armed robbery carries a maximum prison term of 20 years. Use of a handgun in the commission of a crime of violence carries a maximum of 20 years. Judge Timothy J. Doory scheduled sentencing for January 15, 2009.
On March 20, 2007 at approximately 9:50PM in the 500 block of Centre St. both victims were walking home from a play at the Baltimore School for the Arts when Southern approached and pointed black revolver at both, ordering them to “give me your bags.” The first victim handed over her bag, which contained her wallet, credit cards, US currency, paperwork, and keys. The second victim threw her bag, which contained her wallet, credit cards, $30-$40 US currency, paycheck, cell phone and keys to the ground and Southern grabbed it. On April 30, 2007, both victims positively identified Jermaine Southern in photo arrays. Further investigation revealed that Southern used the phone within an hour of the robbery to call his sister. No gun was recovered. None of the victims’ effects were ever recovered.
Assistant State’s Attorney Michael Leedy of the General Trial Division prosecuted this case.
Speaking of School for the Arts, 1986 video of Jada Pinkett and 15-year-old future murder victim Tupac, lip-synching to Will Smith in the school's hallowed halls!
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