Residents of Baltimore and seven other cities will share an extra $60 million in compensation from Wells Fargo Bank N.A., according to a document filed Wednesday in the Justice Department’s civil lawsuit against the lender. The money stems from an ...

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Baltimore Comptroller Joan M. Pratt fired back Thursday against a motion to dismiss her lawsuit over the city’s contract with Rockville-based Digicon Corp. to install a new Internet-based phone system for city employees.

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The wife of former mayoral candidate Otis Rolley III does not have to repay the city $26,000 she received for maternity or sick leave she took while she was working for the Baltimore City Council president, a jury concluded Thursday.

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A Baltimore grandfather who was beaten while in jail with his wife on allegedly trumped-up charges of kidnapping their grandchild will receive $500,000 from the city under an out-of-court settlement approved last week.

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A Baltimore man who was injured in a slip-and-fall accident on city property has settled his lawsuit against the mayor and City Council of Baltimore for $80,000.

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A judge has ordered the Baltimore City Board of Estimates to vote within 30 days on a proposed $150,000 settlement with the family of a teenager who was picked up and allegedly abandoned by three police officers, two of whom ...

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After a heated and at times bitter debate between Baltimore’s mayor and comptroller, the city Board of Estimates Wednesday voted down a proposal for a new telephone system with IBM under a $7.4 million contract. At one point, Mayor Stephanie ...

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Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. For all its truth, that time-honored maxim omits a crucial step: the mea culpa, the point at which we see the error of our ways and resolve to do better. ...

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Lillian Parker, a 50-year-old lunch lady in the Baltimore school system, was wrongfully arrested and thrown in jail for two days in 2007 on drug and weapons charges that were later dropped. She sued, seeking $2 million from the officers ...

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Fed up with the number of seemingly preventable police misconduct lawsuits crossing his desk, Baltimore City Solicitor George A. Nilson penned a program designed to use past experience to prevent similar incidents in the future. Nilson’s idea is to analyze ...

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