North Baltimore Patch's Stories of the Week

Monday night's Baltimore City Council bill was supposed to be focused on approving the $1.3 billion operating budget for fiscal year 2012. But Tom Kiefber's protest of a bill placing the interior of the historic cinema on the city's landmark list stole the show. Kiefaber, the theater's former owner, stormed the council dais and accused the city of being run like a "banana republic." 

On Tuesday morning Baltimore police officer Teresa Rigby, 27, was knocked off Interstate 83 near the 41st Street bridge while trying to aid a disabled motorist. Another car slammed into the rear of Rigby's patrol car and into the disabled vehicle knocking Rigby over the Jersey wall and to a parking lot about 25 feet below. 

Hampden Wants You, to Vote

The Hampden Community Council and the Hampden Village Merchants Association are working to register every Hampden resident to vote in this year's municipal elections.

“The whole purpose of getting people to vote is so Hampden has a little more juice,” council board member George L. Peters  said.

Thomas D. Green, 37, was indicted on charges earlier this month resulting from a hit-and-run accident that injured two people walking near Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood Campus in May.