An attorney for ousted Anne Arundel County Councilman Daryl D. Jones pressed Maryland’s top court Monday to order him reinstated, saying the council had no authority to vote Jones out of office in January as he was preparing to serve a five-month prison sentence for failing to file his income taxes.

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An investigative hearing into the $1.8 billion redevelopment of Middle East by East Baltimore Development Inc. will continue at City Hall on Nov. 9. Councilman Carl Stokes adjourned a contentious three-hour hearing before the City Council’s Taxation, Finance and Economic ...

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A councilman who appeared to be running for Baltimore mayor has instead filed to keep his Council seat. Carl Stokes filed Tuesday to keep the 12th District seat he has been occupying since last year when it opened after Bernard ...

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WASHINGTON — District of Columbia officials sued a council member Monday, accusing him of misusing more than $300,000 in city money intended for youth baseball on an SUV and trips. Council member Harry Thomas Jr., who represents a section of ...

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Baltimore City Councilman James B. Kraft has asked Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III for a response to a series of recent articles in The Daily Record about the cost of settling lawsuits alleging police misconduct. The Southeast Baltimore Democrat’s ...

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The two young men convicted of murdering former Baltimore City Councilman Kenneth N. Harris Sr. during an armed robbery two years ago received life sentences Tuesday. Their accomplice in the late night jazz club hold-up was sentenced to 65 years’ ...

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A man and a teenager were sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for the fatal shooting of a former Baltimore city councilman, whose widow characterized the defendants as exactly the sort of young men her husband tried to help during ...

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A judge will allow prosecutors to present DNA evidence linking a suspect to the fatal shooting of a former Baltimore city councilman. The attorney for one of the young men on trial for the slaying of Kenneth Harris argued that ...

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