A student at Commodore John Rogers Elementary School was shot in the face with a BB gun while waiting for the bus yesterday afternoon, Investigative Voice is reporting.
This is the second incident involving a BB gun at the school, as a teacher was also shot in the arm there two weeks ago, The Voice said.
The principal at Commodore John Rogers Elementary School declined to comment. The student was taken to Johns-Hopkins and was treated for a non-life threatening injury to the eye and forehead
The Baltimore Board of Finance today closed its monthly meeting to the press and public in order to discuss $35 million in tax increment financing for the proposed expansion of Under Armour’s Locust Point headquarters. Steve Kraus, clerk of the board and chief of the city’s bureau of treasury management, invoked an exemption to Maryland’s [...]
((May 21 UPDATE – Jerry Nelson said this morning that L furnace is back in operation, at what capacity and for how long he did not say.)) Production at the Sparrows Point blast furnace was halted Friday due to a shortage of raw materials. Jerry Nelson, general manager of commercial sales for RG Steel, and [...]
May 19 UPDATE: RG Steel’s Jerry Nelson says “everything’s on the table” and “people have expressed interest” in buying RG Steel plants, according to Wheeling, W.Va., newspaper. Also, scrap dealers reluctant to sell to Sparrows Point and Warren, says American Metal Market. [See AMM story below in Comments.] Industry newsletter Steel Market Update reports that [...]
The idea of pushing Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to regularly audit the books of Baltimore city departments got a (literal) airing yesterday on the Marc Steiner Show, as former city Recreation and Parks Department Director Chris Delaporte and three City Councilmen came on the program to discuss it. (Podcast here.) Listeners calling in provided perhaps the [...]
_________________________________________________________________________ BIKING!! That’s at least the takeaway message we got from the photos that were snapped of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake this morning during Bike To Work Day. Rawlings-Blake was beaming in pretty much all the shots we got of her from Meredith Mitchell of Baltimore Bicycle Works, where the mayor and city bike czar Nate [...]
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