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The federal government has sent about $29 million in reimbursement funding to cover Baltimore’s costs of housing more than 500 homeless residents in local hotels during the coronavirus pandemic, and city officials say they expect a total of $70 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
STOKES W. Royal Stokes, 90, an award-winning jazz journalist and author who worked to expand opportunities for women in jazz, died Saturday of myelodysplastic syndrome, a condition related to leukemia. Stokes died at home in Elkins, West Virginia, in the presence of family and with the music of Bunk Johnson playing quietly in the background. Stokes was born in Washington, D.C., in 1930. He grew up in homes in D.C. and Baltimore and on Gibson Island, Maryland, where — at the age of 13 — he heard his first boogie-woogie piano 78s and began his lifelong devotion to jazz music. In 1948, Sto...
Storm damage reported in Okolona Tuesday afternoon Storm damage in Okolona on May 4, 2021. Source: Okolona PD Authorities reported trees on homes in Okolona Tuesday afternoon. Posted: May 4, 2021 4:22 PM Updated: May 4, 2021 5:24 PM Posted By: Zac Carlisle Okolona police investigator Robert Stokes reported multiple trees down, some on homes, cars and powerlines. Stokes sent a picture of a tree that had fallen onto a house. He also reported entrapment rescues from several houses. The police department is asking residents to stay in their homes and not travel. Related Content
A verdict on Friday led to a Jacksonville man running out of the courtroom after he was found guilty for posting revenge pornography to social media and sending the pictures and videos to his ex-girlfriend's employer in 2018. Onslow County District Attorney Ernie Lee announced Derrick Brandon Stokes, 34, was found guilty of three counts of disclosure of private images, three counts of disseminating obscenity, and three counts of having attained the status of a habitual felon. The jury took less than half an hour to find Stokes guilty, who was waiting on the main floor of the courtroom f...
BALTIMORE, MD (WEAA) — How can we change the reality for economically challenged children in the Baltimore City? Following the investigation into Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts, Dr. Kaye and Councilman Robert Stokes address the education crisis in Baltimore, systemic racism, and policies needed in order to go forward. Listen