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Showing posts with label Media Voice of Baltimore. Show all posts
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Saturday, January 07, 2012

Voice of Baltimore: BATTER UP! — Convenience store clerk in Sykesville battered with baseball bat



BATTER UP! — Convenience store clerk in Sykesville battered with baseball bat


January 6th, 2012
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Darrell L. Webb Jr. is wanted for armed robbery, first degree assault, and theft, after allegedly attacking a convenience store clerk early Friday in Sykesville with a baseball bat. He is still at large.
BYSTANDER INTERRUPTS ROBBERY,
TACKLES ASSAILANT BUT FAILS
TO SUBDUE HIM FOR POLICE
2nd BASEBALL BAT ATTACK IN WEEK
By Kevin E. Dayhoff
A baseball bat was the weapon of choice as a High’s Dairy Store employee in Carroll County was assaulted for the second time this week by a man who robbed the store, taking an undetermined number of Maryland Lottery scratch-off tickets.
The store clerk at High’s Village Road location in Sykesville was struck several times in the head and body early Friday by an assailant who had allegedly threatened him several days before and who then fled the scene after being interrupted by a bystander who observed the incident and attempted to intervene.
State troopers and Sykesville police responded to the store about 6:45 a.m. Friday in answer to a report of an “assault with a baseball bat.”
According to the Maryland State Police, when the officers arrived on the scene, they “located the lone store clerk suffering from multiple injuries from an apparent strike to the head and body with a baseball bat.”
A warrant was subsequently issued for Darrell L. Webb Jr., 21, of the 1800 block of Amanda Lane in Sykesville, charging him with armed robbery, first-degree assault, and theft, with additional charges pending.
“Troopers believe Webb acted alone and at this time is the only suspect in the incident,” the state police reported.


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Thursday, December 15, 2011

VOICE OF BALTIMORE: TV scam in Sun classified ad


LOCAL SECURITY GUARD  WIRES DEPOSIT
FOR NEW-IN-THE-BOX LARGE PLASMA TV
AT PRICE THAT'S TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE

Classified ad used to fleece unwitting buyers;
Consumer Protection Div. shows disinterest

How would you like to buy a new-in-the-box never-been-used 65-inch flat-screen plasma TV for under $400?
Sound too good to be true?  Well, maybe that's because it is.

Baltimore security guard Cynthia Green found out the hard way.  She answered what seemed to be a reasonable classified ad; talked by cellphone to the woman offering the television set for sale; and wired her a good faith deposit of $100.

That was the last she saw of her money.  The last communication she had with the seller (except for several hang-up phone calls).  And the TV set?  The TV set was never really in the mix.  ............

READ THE STORY AT VOICE OF BALTIMORE --- http://voiceofbaltimore.org/archives/1450

VOICE OF BALTIMORE: TV scam in Sun classified ad
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Thursday, November 24, 2011

Alan Z. Forman - Voice of Baltimore: MENDACITY IN MARYLAND -- Tennessee Williams' 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' is model for 'Baltimore lie'

MENDACITY IN MARYLAND -- Tennessee Williams' 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' is model for 'Baltimore lie'


PRODUCTION OF CLASSIC 1955 PLAY IN CITY'S STATION NORTH DISTRICT IS METAPHOR FOR SOCIAL CHANGE  http://voiceofbaltimore.org/archives/1183

By Alan Z. Forman
Baltimore was a divided segregated city when Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" debuted on Broadway and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955.

Blacks could not eat at public lunch counters in Charm City (and elsewhere in America) and didn't venture into upscale Guilford or even lowly Hampden. Residents of Polish descent confined themselves to Highlandtown and Canton; Jews were not allowed in Roland Park. Italians lived in Little Italy.

People of color didn't mix with whites except to work for them.  ............

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So well in fact that audiences viewing Williams’ play at the Load of Fun Theater in the old North Avenue Market last weekend in the city’s Station North Arts and Entertainment District barely noticed, if at all, that the cast was racially mixed, that the parents of two white brothers were portrayed by black actors, that the patriarch of an upscale Southern family in the segregated 1950s was played by an African-American Baltimorean.

Percy W. Thomas, dean for external programs at Sojourner-Douglass College and artistic director of Heralds of Hope Theater, which produced the play — advertised as “a color-blind production of the Pulitzer Prize winning tale” — in concert with the Theatrical Mining Company, nearly stole the show as Big Daddy Pollitt, Williams’ doomed patriarch of a wealthy Mississippi Delta family who is dying of colon cancer but doesn’t know it because he’s been lied to by everyone around him.

Kicked in the ass, as it were, under the guise of being kind.

READ THE VOICE OF BALTIMORE STORY @ http://voiceofbaltimore.org/archives/1183


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Sunday, October 02, 2011

Barbara Mikulski & Billie Holiday

HALL OF FAME ? Mikulski, Holiday inducted into national hall
honoring prominent women of America
SENIOR  U. S. SENATOR  HONORED  SATURDAY
AT SITE  OF  HISTORIC SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
THAT BEGAN IN UPSTATE NEW YORK IN 1848

Baltimore-bred jazz singer Billie Holiday
and  Clinton Cabinet Sect. Donna Shalala
honored along with 8 others,  five dead


http://voiceofbaltimore.org/archives/254
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