Hollywood Diner gets a reprieve

BY: Jon Sham
POSTED: September 28, 2011
Tags: Baltimore, baltimore diners, Barry Levinson, calvert street, ccyd, Cheryl Townsend, chesapeake center for youth development, city hall, diner, food trucks, Hollywood diner, Mercy Medical Center, Red Springs Café, red springs catering, sheryl crow, wedding reception

When Alan and Bonnie Kingman read about plans to close the Hollywood Diner, they arranged to take a long lunch Wednesday and trek down from Lutherville to pay what they thought would be a last visit. The couple, both being interested in the 1950s era, got married on Halloween in 1992 and held their wedding [...]

CJCC gets Baltimore courthouse renovation study

BY: Brendan Kearney
POSTED: May 11, 2011
Tags: Baltimore, baltimore city circuit court, calvert street, circuit court buildings, courthouse, Criminal Justice Coordinating Commission, Marcella A. Holland, maryland, overhaul, renovations

The latest plan to upgrade Baltimore’s outdated and dysfunctional circuit court buildings calls for extensive renovations to the existing Calvert Street courthouses and the construction of a new criminal courthouse a block away, an undertaking that will cost as much as $600 million. The feasibility study presented Wednesday at the Criminal Justice Coordinating Commission’s monthly [...]

Spill closes section of JFX in Baltimore

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 11, 2011
Tags: Baltimore, calvert street, downtown baltimore, fayette, five gallons, I-83, jones falls expressway, kevin cartwright, maryland department of the environment, spill, substance spilled

A section of the Jones Falls Expressway in downtown Baltimore has been shut down after an unknown substance was spilled on the roadway. Fire department spokesman Chief Kevin Cartwright says northbound Interstate 83 was closed between Fayette and Calvert streets Friday morning. Cartwright says about five gallons of an unknown substance was spilled in the [...]

Photo of the Day – Preparing for another dangerous package

BY: Rich Dennison
POSTED: January 7, 2011
Tags: Annapolis, Baltimore, bomb, calvert street, clarence m. mitchell jr. courthouse, daily record, hanover, ignite, package, photo, Photo of the Day, police, rich dennison

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