Baltimore news

• Winter Weather Advisory Expires Following Snowfall

  30-12-2017 22:27
  BALTIMORE (WJZ)– A Winter Weather Advisory expired at noon Saturday after the Baltimore region received less than an inch of snow overnight.
  Snow tapering. #Winter Weather Advisory until Noon N&W of beltway.. Updates on #WJZ #FIRSTWARNINGWX pic.twitter.com/FiuSxKOIhg
  — Tim Williams WJZ (@TimWilliamsWJZ) December 30, 2017Baltimore’s third Cold Blue Alert of the season has also been extended through Tuesday, Jan. 2.
  The Cold Blue Alert means it’s cold enough that hypoth
  
  Read more

• Elderly Man Calls 911 After Getting Locked Inside Rite Aid On Christmas

  30-12-2017 22:21
  New Baltimore, Michigan (WXYZ) — It was just before 5 p.m. on Christmas Day when an elderly man walked into the Rite Aid on 23 Mile Road in New Baltimore to check his blood pressure near the pharmacy.
  What he may not have known was that the store was closing early for the holiday.
  And when it was time to lock up the building, store employees didn’t realize that the 84-year-old man was still inside.
  Once he realized he was alone and locked in the store, the man used his cell phone to
  
  Read more

• Baltimore New Year’s Eve Fireworks Set To Dazzle Crowds

  30-12-2017 22:04
  BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Preparations are underway for Baltimore’s New Year’s Eve spectacular as a blast of colorful fireworks will light up the city’s skyline to ring in 2018.
  It takes several months to plan and choreograph the fireworks show, and it lasts 15 magical minutes starting at midnight Jan. 1.
  “Start planning really early, start planning with the fireworks company and make sure we have all the permits in place,” said Megan Bosse of Baltimore Promotion
  
  Read more

• First-Year Presidential Economies: From Carter To Trump

  30-12-2017 21:49
  (CNN Money) — Unemployment at a 17-year low. The stock market setting records. Consumer confidence near its best level since 2000.
  There’s a lot to like about the economy during the first year of the Trump administration.
  Economists and historians will tell you that presidents get too much credit or blame for the state of the economy, especially in their first year when their policies have only barely started to affect businesses and consumers. Many factors make t
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Workers Find Child Wearing Only Diaper Wandering In Cold

  30-12-2017 21:28
  MONSON, Mass. (AP) — Utility workers found a two-year-old girl wearing only a diaper wandering into traffic on a frigid day in Massachusetts.
  Comcast Technicians Shawn Bronson and Michael Payne told The Boston Herald they were restoring service to customers in Monson Thursday when they spotted the child heading toward the middle of the road.
  The workers scooped up the child and brought her to a store where they waited for police.
  Bronson said she was “shaking” and had
  
  Read more

• Las Vegas Police: 2 Security Guards Killed At Hotel-Casino

  30-12-2017 20:50
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police in Las Vegas say two security guards are dead after being shot in a room at a hotel-casino.
  Police say the alleged shooter ran away after the shooting Saturday morning at Arizona Charlie’s Decatur but then was found by police at a nearby residence with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
  The shooter’s condition and the victims’ identities have not been released.
  Additional information about the circumstances of the incident, including a possible motive
  
  Read more

• It’s Academic: December 30, 2017

  30-12-2017 20:28
  Howard 505
  Perry Hall 340
  Oakland Mills 320
  
  Read more

• Some Voters Opted For Mickey Mouse In Bitter US Senate Race

  30-12-2017 20:10
  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Mickey Mouse. Nick Saban. Any Other Republican.
  Those were some of names that got write-in votes in the Alabama Senate election as voters suggested their own alternatives to Sen.-elect Doug Jones and Republican Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race.
  An unusually high number of voters — 22,852 people, or 1.6 percent of the 1.3 million people who went to the polls — opted for a write-in candidates, sometimes showing their humor and frustration along the way
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Police: Man Fleeing In Car Arrested After Crash, Attempted To Run From Scene On Foot

  30-12-2017 19:17
  BALTIMORE (WJZ)– City police say they arrested a man after he attempted to flee from them in a car, crashing it and then attempting to run away on foot.
  Baltimore police detectives say they attempted to conduct a traffic stop in the 1400 block of North Monroe Street because of a traffic violation committed by 30-year-old Andreas Richardson Jr., who was driving a BMW.Officers say Richardson pulled over but then sped off. He then crashed into another vehicle in the 2500 block of Edmondson Av
  
  Read more

• Black Lives Matter Icon Eric Garner’s Daughter Dies At 27

  30-12-2017 18:17
  NEW YORK (AP) — The daughter of Black Lives Matter icon Eric Garner died Saturday after a weeklong hospital stay following a heart attack.
  “She was a warrior to the end. She stood up for justice for her father,” the Rev. Al Sharpton said in announcing the death of Garner, 27, at a New York hospital.
  Garner’s official Twitter account, run by her family and friends since she became ill, asked that she be remembered as a mother, daughter, sister and aunt with a heart “
  
  Read more

• 2 Injured In Late Night Anne Arundel County Apartment Fire

  30-12-2017 17:28
  BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Two people have been injured in an apartment fire in Cape St. Claire Friday night.
  The Anne Arundel County Fire Department responded to the blaze in the 700 block of Southern Hills Drive just after 11:20 p.m.
  Courtesy of the Anne Arundel County Fire Department.
  Courtesy of the Anne Arundel County Fire Department.
  Officials say by the time they arrived, all occupants exited the building. It took fire crews 90 minutes to control the fire.
  Courtesy of the Anne Arundel County
  
  Read more

• Police Searching For Man Who Cut Himself, Fled Home

  30-12-2017 16:38
  BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Authorities are searching for a man who fled his home after cutting himself early Saturday morning.
  Baltimore County police say Matthew Shane Locklear, 27, fled his home in the 2100 block of Willow Spring Road after cutting himself.Officers say Locklear was bleeding from his arm when police were called to his house.
  Locklear is 5’3″ tall, weighs 150 pounds and was last seen wearing a red hoodie and blue jeans, according to detectives.
  If anyone has information
  
  Read more

• Extreme Cold To Test New Year’s Revelers; Some Events Iced

  30-12-2017 15:36
  BALTIMORE (AP)– Dress in layers, lay off the booze and bring some hand warmers. Those are some of the tips offered for the huge crowd of revelers expected in Times Square for what could be one of the coldest New Year’s Eve ball drops on record.
  Brutal weather has iced plans for scores of events in the Northeast from New Year’s Eve through New Year’s Day, but not in New York City, where people will start gathering in Times Square up to nine hours before the famous ball dro
  
  Read more

• Winter Weather Advisory Set To Expire Saturday Afternoon Following Snowfall

  30-12-2017 14:18
  BALTIMORE (WJZ)– A Winter Weather Advisory is set to expire at noon Saturday after the Baltimore region received less than an inch of snow overnight.
  Snow tapering. #Winter Weather Advisory until Noon N&W of beltway.. Updates on #WJZ #FIRSTWARNINGWX pic.twitter.com/FiuSxKOIhg
  — Tim Williams WJZ (@TimWilliamsWJZ) December 30, 2017Baltimore’s third Cold Blue Alert of the season has also been extended through Tuesday, Jan. 2.
  The Cold Blue Alert means it’s cold enough th
  
  Read more

• Winter Weather Advisory Expires Saturday Afternoon Following Snowfall

  30-12-2017 14:18
  BALTIMORE (WJZ)– A Winter Weather Advisory has expired at noon Saturday after the Baltimore region received less than an inch of snow overnight.
  Snow tapering. #Winter Weather Advisory until Noon N&W of beltway.. Updates on #WJZ #FIRSTWARNINGWX pic.twitter.com/FiuSxKOIhg
  — Tim Williams WJZ (@TimWilliamsWJZ) December 30, 2017Baltimore’s third Cold Blue Alert of the season has also been extended through Tuesday, Jan. 2.
  The Cold Blue Alert means it’s cold enough that hy
  
  Read more

• Viewing Held For Slain Morgan State Student

  30-12-2017 05:19
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Friends and family of a murdered Morgan State University student are preparing to lay him to rest. A viewing was held Friday for 19-year-old Jonathan Tobash, and it will be followed by his funeral and internment Saturday.
  Tobash was on his way to a corner store when he encountered a robbery in progress. The suspects shot the college sophomore multiple times in Northeast Baltimore. He died just days before Christmas.
  At his viewing Friday night, Tobash’s long-time fr
  
  Read more

• Doctors Warn Of Winter Weather Dangers As Region Braces For More Snow, Cold

  30-12-2017 05:13
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — It’s no secret: If you’ve spent anytime outdoors this week, you’ve felt the cold.
  If you’re like this family visiting from Texas, you might be ready to seek warmer climates.
  “It’s normally like really, really hot, but now it’s really, really cold. I can see my breath,” Morgan Cassimere said.
  For those of us staying put, it’s important to remember there’s still a Code Blue Alert issued in Baltimore City.
  
  Read more

• 2 Dead, 1 Hurt In Shooting At Southern California Law Firm

  30-12-2017 03:58
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man walked into the Southern California law firm where he worked and shot two men Friday before turning the gun on himself, police said.
  Police arrived to find the gunman and one victim dead and learned that the second victim had driven himself to a hospital, Long Beach police Sgt. Brad Johnson said at a news conference.
  The injured man was in stable condition.
  Police didn’t fire any shots, Johnson said. A SWAT team searched the rest of the building and no other
  
  Read more

• South Carolina Lottery Error Could Lead To $19.6 Million In Winnings

  30-12-2017 03:14
  (CNN) — The winnings in a compromised South Carolina lottery game on Christmas Day could amount to $19.6 million of potential prize money.
  A programming error in a lottery game that lasted for more than two hours generated an overabundance of winning tickets, prompting the game’s suspension and an investigation, officials said Wednesday.
  Friday, after a closed-door emergency meeting, the South Carolina Education Lottery Board of Commissioners moved to set aside $19.6 million, wh
  
  Read more

• 18 Things To Look Forward To In 2018

  30-12-2017 03:06
  (CNN) — Whether you’ve arrived at the finish line fresh and invigorated for another trip around the sun, or are so exhausted you may wheeze out your actual soul, 2017 is done.
  Luckily, there are all kinds of cool and important things to look forward to in 2018 to mitigate all of the things you’ll inevitably come to loathe and dread as the year progresses.
  So next time someone says, “Do we really have to go on living for another whole year?” comfort them by mentionin
  
  Read more

• Peacemaker Works To Stop Bloodshed In Baltimore

  30-12-2017 02:49
  BALTIMORE (AP) — In an alley where a teenager became one of Baltimore’s latest bodies to fall, Erricka Bridgeford whispered prayers and directed smoke from burning sage in a gathering intended to transform spots where people are slain into a kind of sacred ground.
  The spiritually minded activist began to cry, letting her tears fall on asphalt where the 17-year-old boy she didn’t know was fatally shot the night before. She called out “You matter! You matter!” in a ra
  
  Read more

• Winter Weather Advisory Issued Ahead Of Snow

  30-12-2017 01:09
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A Winter Weather Advisory has been issued as parts of Maryland may get up to two inches of snow this weekend.
  The Winter Weather Advisory is in effect until 1 p.m. Saturday and covers areas Northwest of Baltimore.
  Winter Weather Advisory until 1 p.m. Saturday. Areas under advisory expecting 1"-2" of snow. #Baltimore metro area is expecting 1". pic.twitter.com/woJFfAfxxs
  — Meg McNamara (@MegWJZ) December 29, 2017WJZ’s Meg McNamara says snow will move into centr
  
  Read more

• Baltimore-Based Singer To Perform For Inner Harbor’s New Year’s Eve Celebration

  30-12-2017 00:16
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore’s New Year’s Eve spectacular is just days away, but before the big fireworks show at midnight, visitors can expect some fantastic live music from a local artist.
  The night’s singer is Baltimore-based Alexis Joyce, and she’s ready to help you dance your way into 2018.
  Joyce will be the voice turning up the volume and firing up the crowd as we count down to the stroke of midnight.
  From inside the recording studio, where she’s wor
  
  Read more

Follow @Baltimore__news on Twitter!