The Baltimore Board of Estimates on Wednesday signed off on the $95,000 settlement of a lawsuit filed by a 90-year-old former school principal who had her shoulder broken while being handcuffed by police in her home in 2007. Venus Green, ...

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The Baltimore Board of Estimates has approved a comprehensive policy requiring most city employees to notify their superiors of an arrest. Under the policy, which took effect immediately, employees must notify their agency’s human resources office of an arrest or ...

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The Board of Estimates, Baltimore’s spending panel, will hear Wednesday a protest from resident and community activist Kim Trueheart on an agenda item she called “foul” and “awful.” Trueheart, who said she has been coming to the Board of Estimates’ ...

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New restaurants come to West Baltimore and Arundel Mills and a new (and controversial) fountain coming to Union Square are among the most-read business stories of the week. The list also includes the Baltimore Grand Prix receiving new management. The ...

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The Baltimore Board of Estimates on Wednesday heard testimony — both positive and negative — from IndyCar, Visit Baltimore, citizens and others before taking its vote on whether to approve the contract for Downforce Racing to assume control of the city's Grand Prix.

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The city’s Board of Estimates voted 3-2 Wednesday to approve a contract with Downforce Racing LLC for the right to run the Baltimore Grand Prix for the next five years. Comptroller Joan M. Pratt and City Council President Bernard C. ...

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The managers of Downforce Racing LLC say this year’s Baltimore Grand Prix will be better. The group, chosen by the city to run the race through the streets of downtown Baltimore for the next five years, is led by Dale ...

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The mayor’s office plans to announce Wednesday who it has chosen to take over the troubled Baltimore Grand Prix, but two of the three groups who have reportedly expressed interest in managing the event said they have not recently had ...

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Baltimore will receive $500,000 in settlement of an asbestos lawsuit that spanned 26 years and involved 63 companies, under a settlement approved Wednesday by the Board of Estimates. The lawsuit, Mayor and City Council of Baltimore v. Keene Corp., et ...

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The Baltimore Board of Estimates last week approved a $375,000 settlement in a lawsuit filed by the family of an unarmed Baltimore man who was shot twice in the back by a police officer in 2008. The family of Edward ...

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