Families mourn soldiers
Spc. Bernard L. Ceo asked his longtime girlfriend Dajae Overton to marry him "so many times," she said. Yet she insisted they not rush, envisioning a grand family wedding some...
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Liquor inspectors seek leave
A week after the Baltimore liquor board imposed a mandatory eight-hour workday for liquor inspectors, five members of the inspection staff have filed for leave from their jobs because of...
Deaths sow doubt, grief at city school
On the first day of school, students returned to Forest Park Senior High School yesterday and confronted war. Within two weeks, two members of the Class of 2000, both members...
Subpoena demands liquor board data
A city grand jury has subpoenaed thousands of documents from the Baltimore liquor board, including inspection reports for Power Plant Live and Norma Jean's, a strip bar on The Block,...
Liquor board voids license
The Baltimore City Board of Liquor License Commissioners voided yesterday a bar license that had been inactive for about three years - a clear violation of state law that prohibits...
City liquor board is not enforcing state law
The Baltimore City Board of Liquor License Commissioners has allowed a handful of people, many of them vendors who lease poker machines and pool tables to bars, to hold onto...
City liquor board under investigation by state prosecutor
The state prosecutor's office is investigating the Baltimore Board of Liquor License Commissioners amid a factional dispute in the troubled state agency. Nathan C. Irby Jr., the board's executive secretary,...
Injury to child in foster care described as tragic accident
Martina Ford holds a photograph showing her son, a chubby child with a misshapen head, lying in a hospital bed in Spider-Man pajamas. In another photo, she awkwardly cradles the...
Mother sues city over tot’s brain damage
A woman who lost custody of her children while in a city witness protection program filed a $34 million lawsuit against the Baltimore Department of Social Services yesterday, alleging that...
Answers elusive in foster care crisis
The Baltimore City Department of Social Services office at 301 N. Gay St. was never intended to house children - but lots of them have spent nights there. More than...