NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday Nov. 1
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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — IN BRIEF
A Voice of Baltimore compendium, local and beyond. Your weekday morning look (with links) at late-breaking news, current events, and what will be talked about wherever you may go on Friday:
Stephen Tabeling’s “Book of Cop” memoir, You Can’t Stop Murder, was co-written by WBFF Fox45-TV Investigative Producer Stephen Janis, edited by Voice of Balti- more, and published in Sept. by Baltimore True Crime, in association with VoB.
John Earl Williams shot seven Baltimore City police officers, killing one, from his third-floor window in West Baltimore on Good Friday 1976. His conviction was overturned last year by the Unger decision, in which the Maryland Court of Appeals ruled that in cases tried before 1980, judges gave juries bad instructions.
More than 200 convicted felons could therefore be released or retried, Williams being one of them. At least 25 in Baltimore City and a similar number throughout the state have already been set free.
Williams’ case is chronicled in a book co-published by Voice of Baltimore, titled You Can’t Stop Murder.
Read More at: Voice of Baltimore
• DESPITE LOSSES, BALTIMORE WON’T SELL CONVENTION CENTER HILTON
City officials ruled out selling the money-losing Hilton Hotel despite analysts’ portrayal Thursday of a bleak next decade.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun |
Maryland Daily Record
• NAVAL ACADEMY ASSAULT LAWSUIT DISMISSED
A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit brought by a Naval Academy midshipman who sought the removal of the school’s superintendent from a sexual assault case involving three classmates she has accused of raping her.
Read More at: NBC News
• OBAMA ADVISERS DISS BIDEN, CLINTON
In a new book, the President’s staff members tell of an attempt to dump Vice President Joe Biden from the 2012 ticket and replace him with Hillary Clinton, whose husband few in the administration — including Obama — seemed to like.
Read More at: Washington Post
• BOND STREET SOCIAL’S EXECUTIVE CHEF TO OPEN CAFE IN LAKE FALLS VILLAGE
The new cafe will open with a six-year lease in the former Banksy’s Cafe space at the small Baltimore County shopping mall on Falls Road at the intersection of Lake Avenue near Mount Washington.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Thursday Oct. 31
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — IN BRIEF
A Voice of Baltimore compendium, local and beyond. Your weekday morning look (with links) at late-breaking news, current events, and what will be talked about wherever you may go on Thursday:
A school staffer who allegedly sold mari- juana cookies to Northeast Baltimore stu- dents was arrested Wed. on gun charges.
A week after several students at the Reach! Partnership School in Northeast Baltimore were taken to a hospital after eating cookies suspected of being laced with marijuana, the school staffer who allegedly sold them the cookies was arrested Wednesday when police found a handgun during a search of his home.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• BLUE CROSS CANCELS INSURANCE FOR 70,000 MARYLANDERS
Approximately 70,000 Marylanders who failed to meet requirements of the Affordable Care Act will lose their health insurance with CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield.
Read More at: WBFF Fox45-TV
• RED SOX WIN WORLD SERIES
The BoSox beat the Cardinals 6-1 in Game 6 to take the 2013 Series four games to two. It was the first World Series won at Fenway Park in 95 years.
Read More at: Boston Globe
• SPEED CAMERAS STILL UNREADY TO ISSUE TICKETS
Six months after taking Baltimore’s speed and red light cameras offline because of errors, the company contracted to provide maintenance for the idled cameras said Wednesday it has had no contact with the city regarding the troubled program.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record | Baltimore Sun
• ANNAPOLIS-BASED WILDLIFE SERVICE TO GET $1M FROM GUN TAX
Record firearm sales in the first nine months of 2013 will give the Annapolis-based Maryland Wildlife & Heritage Service a 10 percent increase in its total budget.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Wednesday Oct. 30
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — IN BRIEF
A Voice of Baltimore compendium, local and beyond. Your weekday morning look (with links) at late- breaking news, current events, and what will be talked about wherever you may go on Wednesday:
The Hillman Garage in Annapolis is named for a longtime city alderman.
The best-known place to park in Maryland — the Noah A. Hillman Parking Garage in Annapolis — will get a $3,500 safety repair this week to a brick wall atop the structure.
Located near City Hall and publicly owned, with free parking available for residents, the garage is named in honor of the late alderman whose son Richard served a term as the state capital’s mayor in the early 1980s.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
• MACHADO, JONES, HARDY WIN GOLD GLOVE
Three Orioles — third baseman Manny Machado, center fielder Adam Jones and shortstop J.J. Hardy — were among this year’s winners of the Rawlings Gold Glove Award, announced Tuesday. Catcher Matt Wieters, first baseman Chris Davis and right fielder Nick Markakis also made the finals.
Read More at: WJZ-TV (Channel 13) | Baltimore Sun
• COUNCIL MOVES TO HIRE ITS OWN LAWYER
Objecting to City Solicitor George Nilson’s loyalty to the mayor, a Baltimore City Council committee approved a proposal Tuesday that would allow the council to hire its own lawyer.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• NEW FCC CHAIRMAN CONFIRMED
The U.S. Senate voted unanimously Tuesday to confirm Thomas E. Wheeler as head of the Federal Communications Commission, and Michael P. O’Rielly as a commissioner.
Read More at: Wall Street Journal | New York Times
• MONTGOMERY CO. TO GIVE HIGH SCHOOLERS EXTRA HOUR OF SLEEP
Possibly fearing that students don’t get enough sleep, Montgomery County is proposing to shift high school start times from 7:25 to 8: 15 a.m. Other schools’ times would be adjusted also if the proposal takes effect.
Read More at: Washington Post
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Tuesday Oct. 29
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — IN BRIEF
A Voice of Baltimore compendium, local and beyond. Your weekday morning look (with links) at late-breaking news, current events, and what will be talked about wherever you may go on Tuesday:
Over 1,400 speed camera tickets were declared null and void this week in Baltimore County because 12 cameras were not calibrated when they were supposed to be.
Because a dozen speed cameras were not calibrated on schedule, Baltimore County voided more than 1,400 citations.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
• PENN STATE AGREES TO PAY $59.7M TO 26 SANDUSKY VICTIMS
A $59.7 million payout from Penn State University will be shared by 26 men, in settlement of claims that they were sexually abused as children by former football Defensive Coordinator Jerry Sandusky. University President Rodney Erickson called the agreements “another step forward in the healing process for those hurt by Mr. Sandusky, and another step forward for Penn State.”
Read More at: New York Times
• 1st MARINER WINS FEES, ADVANTAGE AT DEFAMATION TRIAL
A U.S. magistrate chastised a premier boutique law firm Monday for what she termed “discovery tomfoolery” and ordered it and former trial counsel Kandel & Associates P.A. of Baltimore to pay more than $23,000 in attorney’s fees to 1st Mariner Bank.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• SOUTH BETHANY ISSUES SENIOR WEEK WARNING
Emphasizing its identity as one of Delaware’s “quiet resorts,” the beach town that was the scene last June of a teenage party visited by Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler criticized parents who rent houses for senior parties but declined to open an investigation into the possibility that adults had illegally allowed underage drinking.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• DRUG TAKE-BACK DAY NETS OVER 2,500 POUNDS OF MEDICATION IN 2 MD. COUNTIES
More than 1,700 pounds of unused prescription medications were given back in Harford County and 862 pounds were collected in Howard County as part of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s National Take Back Initiative.
Read More at: Howard County Times | Baltimore Sun
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Monday Oct. 28
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — IN BRIEF
A Voice of Baltimore compendium, local and beyond. Your weekday morning look (with links) at late-breaking news, current events, and what will be talked about wherever you may go on Monday:
The Boston Red Sox won Game 4 Sunday night to even the World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals at 2-2.
The World Series heads back to Boston as
the Red Sox win Game 4 in St. Louis.
Read More at: Boston Globe
• STOOP STORYTELLING TONIGHT
AT CENTER STAGE
The popular storytelling series begins its eighth season Monday night.
Read More at: Voice of Baltimore
• CITY POLICE OFFICER KILLS FIREFIGHTER, GIRLFRIEND IN MURDER-SUICIDE
The Baltimore City cop went to the Glen Burnie home of his girlfriend’s new boyfriend, killed them both, then turned his gun on himself.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• DOG BITES OFF TODDLER’S NOSE IN GLEN BURNIE
The three-year-old child apparently put his face through a hole under the fence separating his family’s property from the dog’s owners.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
• LAURAVILLE COFFEE SHOP PLANS D.C. OPENING
Baltimore’s Zeke’s Coffee, which currently does seven farmers markets in the D.C. area, is planning to open a new roasting-and-retail base in Washington next month. The locally-owned small-batch roaster started in Nov. 2005 in Lauraville and recently added a second Baltimore location near Hamilton.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
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