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By - Liz F. Kay Liz F. Kay | October 23, 2009
Yellow Cab of Baltimore celebrated its 100th anniversary Thursday with a downtown parade of taxis, including vintage cabs and even the most modern addition, hybrid vehicles. W.W. Cloud purchased the Brown and Blue Cab companies in 1909 and renamed them Yellow, making it the oldest registered Yellow Cab in the country, according to company officials. The cars, however, were black. Yellow grew and expanded until 2001, when Yellow Transportation of Baltimore was acquired by a global transportation company now known as Veolia Transportation.
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By Gus G. Sentementes | January 27, 2009
Stephen Mauk, a driver for Yellow Cab of Frederick, was dispatched to pick up passengers in his minivan early yesterday - and that was the last his co-workers heard from him, a company official said. Four hours later, Mauk, 47, was found shot to death in his cab at a public housing complex in East Baltimore, according to city police. Police said the man was shot once in the head while sitting in the driver's seat in the 200 block of N. Bond St. An autopsy is pending. Police officials did not release a possible motive in the killing, which led homicide detectives to travel to Frederick yesterday as part of their investigation.
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By Jacques Kelly | July 6, 2007
Elizabeth Buie, a pioneering African-American cab driver and taxi owner, died of heart disease Saturday at the Alice Manor Nursing Home. The East Baltimore resident was 89. Born Elizabeth Webb on a Sanford, N.C., farm, she completed the seventh grade and did agricultural work in neighboring Broadway. When she heard there was work available here, she moved to Baltimore in the 1940s and took a job packing hand grenades at the Edgewood Arsenal. She rode a bus from her Gay Street home to Harford County.
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By Michael Dresser | July 2, 2007
Revelers who toast the Declaration of Independence a few too many times in Baltimore bars this Fourth of July have a way home that doesn't involve staggering back to their vehicles. The State Highway Administration, AAA Mid-Atlantic and Yellow Cab are offering free - up to a $50 value - taxi rides home to patrons of city drinking spots in an effort to curb drunken driving. In some recent years, the Fourth has been the deadliest holiday of the year on the nation's roads, and alcohol has been a big contributor to the carnage.
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By Richard Irwin and Annie Linskey | May 23, 2007
A 12-year-old girl who told authorities she had been raped Monday in a taxi, prompting police to stop cabs in some city neighborhoods, lied to create a cover for having sex with a teenage boy, a city police spokesman said last night. Officer Troy Harris, the spokesman, said "charges were unlikely to be filed against the girl" and that the investigation is closed. The new information came from police interviews with the girl. The girl had told police she was attacked in a yellow-colored taxi near Clifton Park in Northeast Baltimore, near Harford Road and East 32nd Street.
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By Jacques Kelly | January 3, 2007
George Jay Joseph, who owned and rebuilt Baltimore's Yellow Cab Co. into the region's largest passenger ground transportation business, died of cancer Monday at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda. The Chevy Chase resident was 87. Born in Bethlehem, Pa., he was the son of a Lithuanian immigrant peddler who went on to found a department store in Reading, Pa. He earned a bachelor's degree at Pennsylvania State University and a law degree from the University of Virginia after Army service during World War II. Mr. Joseph went into the legal publishing business in downtown Washington in the 1950s and named his first two companies, Jefferson Law Book and Thomas Jefferson Publishing, in honor of the president who established the University of Virginia.
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May 12, 2006
RICHARD C. WOLFE, of Baltimore, died April 27, 2006 of heart failure at age 63. He was a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College and received an MA in English Literature from Kent State University. Early in his career he was an instructor of English at Towson State University. At the time of his death, he was employed by the Yellow Cab Company. He leaves a daughter, Pamela Goodrum, in California, a son, Erik Wolfe, in Georgia, and a brother, Paul Wolfe, in New Hampshire. No funeral service is planned.
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May 12, 2006
RICHARD C. WOLFE, of Baltimore, died April 27, 2006 of heart failure at age 63. He was a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College and received an MA in English Literature from Kent State University. Early in his career he was an instructor of English at Towson State University. At the time of his death, he was employed by the Yellow Cab Company. He leaves a daughter, Pamela Goodrum, in California, a son, Erik Wolfe, in Georgia, and a brother, Paul Wolfe, in New Hampshire. No funeral service is planned.
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By FROM STAFF REPORTS | December 31, 2003
In Baltimore City Two teens fatally shot; homicide toll for year climbs to 271 Two teen-age males were fatally shot last night on a Northeast Baltimore street during what may have been an attempted robbery, police said. Shortly before 11 p.m., three boys between ages 16 and 18 were standing and talking in the 3100 block of Mareco Ave. in the Belair-Edison community when a gunman approached and reportedly demanded their money and valuables, police said. When one of the victims turned and fled down the street, the gunman shot the two remaining boys in the head at point-blank range, killing both, police said.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | February 22, 2003
In her new book, Got My Mind Set on Freedom: Maryland's Story of Black-White Activism 1663-2000, Barbara Mills writes that employment opportunities for African-Americans were greatly expanded in 1951 when the Yellow Cab Co. of Baltimore began integrating its taxi drivers. With other local cab companies following suit, an estimated 260 jobs were created for blacks who took their place behind the wheel with their white counterparts. "I could see no sound reason why the people in Baltimore should be deprived of the services of many taxicabs when qualified men and women of color were available and seeking honorable and gainful employment," said Robert Freedman, president of Yellow Cab, when he was presented an award from the Hollander Foundation that year.