VoB SELECTS:  INVESTIGATIVE NEWS FROM AROUND THE WEB   CRITICIZES CLACK’S FAILURE  TO SUPPORT FIREFIGHTERS; MAYOR CALLS PROPOSAL TO KEEP FIRE STATIONS OPEN ‘UNADVISABLE,  UNWORKABLE AND IRRESPONSIBLE’   As protesters gathered outside City Hall Thursday afternoon to protest the planned closing of three Baltimore City fire stations as a result of budget cuts proposed […]

  VoB SELECTS:  INVESTIGATIVE NEWS FROM AROUND THE WEB   MISTAKEN LOCATION  NECESSITATES DECLARING TICKETS NULL AND VOID OVER 3,000 CITATIONS ERRONEOUSLY ISSUED   Problems with speed cameras continue to cost Baltimore taxpayers money, as a mistaken location caused the city this week to have to nullify more than 3,000 $40 tickets at a potential […]

  DEMOCRATS’ 2004 VP NOMINEE  TRIED ON 6 COUNTS OF ALLEGED 2008 CAMPAIGN FINANCE VIOLATIONS, IN ATTEMPT  TO COVER UP  EXTRAMARITAL AFFAIR   A mistrial was declared Thursday in the campaign finance trial of 2008 presidential candidate and former U.S. Sen. John Edwards as a U.S. District Court jury couldn’t decide which admitted liar to […]

  STAR PLAYER  ERIC LUSBY  SCORES FOUR GOALS IN TITLE GAME, SETS RECORD WITH 17 OVERALL   Loyola University Maryland’s Greyhounds men’s lacrosse team won its first-ever national championship Monday, defeating the University of Maryland Terrapins by a lopsided 9-3 score. The two Maryland teams, from colleges located 40 miles apart, played the NCAA Championship […]

VoB SELECTS:  INVESTIGATIVE NEWS FROM AROUND THE WEB   EX-PRESIDENT’S BLOOD GARNERS $14,000 BID AT  ONLINE AUCTION   UPDATE (2:30 p.m.):  Auction canceled, Reagan’s blood to be kept “out of public hands” (see end of story, below)   Had it not been for term limits and Alzheimer’s, and the fact that in 2004 at age […]