ANNAPOLIS — House Speaker Michael Busch has asked a state agency to conduct biweekly reviews of Del. Tiffany Alston’s legislative account in the aftermath of an indictment alleging theft and misconduct in office. Busch said in a statement on Thursday ...

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A 66-year-old Baltimore man filed suit Monday against two Baltimore police officers, saying one of them used a Taser twice without cause after responding to a domestic dispute in June at his home on Elmora Avenue. According to the complaint, ...

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A Baltimore Police Department sergeant who already had one misconduct lawsuit pending against him was sued again Thursday — this time for allegedly using Hollywood-style intimidation tactics to threaten Baltimore resident Mark C. Harrell. Harrell and Roslyn Wiggins say that ...

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The city of Baltimore is poised to pay $30,000 to a furnace repairman named Michael Wright, who claims a police officer dragged him out of a vehicle and broke his wrist during a traffic stop in 2009. In February, the ...

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Baltimore’s Board of Estimates approved a $30,000 payment to settle an excessive force lawsuit filed by a 33-year-old city man who claimed he was beaten and jailed by police after he called in a domestic abuse complaint. The board approved ...

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Finally someone has stepped forward with a plan to get a handle on the soaring cost of police misconduct in Baltimore and the underlying inadequacies in training that contribute to it. Now let’s hope that plan makes a difference. Six ...

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A Rochester, N.Y-based construction company that provides services to the U.S. Army at Aberdeen Proving Ground has agreed to pay $230,000 and provide other remedial relief to settle a gender-based abuse and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment ...

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WASHINGTON — Whistleblowers who report corporate fraud or other misconduct to the government could receive sizable cash awards under new rules adopted Wednesday by federal regulators. Tipsters would be eligible if they give the Securities and Exchange Commission information that ...

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Granted, Montgomery County and Baltimore City are very different places. The Washington, D.C., suburb is richer and more educated than Baltimore. Its population, on the rise, is more than one and a half times that of Baltimore, which has seen ...

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Baltimore taxpayers have paid at least $16.8 million since July 2004 to settle lawsuits involving the city police department. The cases range from garden-variety policy misconduct to a $6 million settlement in the case of Jeffrey Alston, who was paralyzed ...

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