Baltimore has paid out approximately $4.5 million to settle allegations of police misconduct in the last two fiscal years, according to data obtained by The Daily Record through a Maryland Public Information Act request.

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The operator of Baltimore’s incinerator will pay the city almost $4 million in unpaid taxes under a settlement set for approval Wednesday by the Board of Estimates.

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The Board of Estimates is scheduled to consider making a loan to a developer to renovate an apartment building in Lafayette Square.

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Arguing a protest before the city's Board of Estimates will get a little bit easier under a proposed resolution before the city's spending panel Wednesday.

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The Baltimore Board of Estimates is scheduled Wednesday to approve a total of $110,000 in settlements for two cases where police officers were alleged to have used excessive force — one in which a drunk driver suffered a broken jaw, the other a claim of assault by a school police officer against a special-needs student during an arrest.

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The Baltimore City Board of Estimates on Wednesday is set to approve a $228,000 settlement with a former police officer who filed an administrative complaint against the Baltimore Police Department with the Maryland Commission on Civil Rights.

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The city’s Board of Estimates is set to approve a $250,000 settlement with an Owings Mills man who alleged police seized his cellphone and deleted video he took of his friend being arrested during the 2010 Preakness Stakes.

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The city is tossing around millions of dollars and lots of it is going right down the drain.

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A resolution will go into effect at Wednesday's meeting concerning "the regulation of Board of Estimates meetings and protests."

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Baltimore’s spending board has approved a request from the city’s housing department to continue funding administration and operations at Park Heights Renaissance Inc., a nonprofit that opened in 2008 to redevelop the community in the northwest part of the city that includes Pimlico Race Track.

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