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Special squad to investigate stranglings
- Police have created a special squad to investigate the recent rash of strangling deaths after the body of a woman was found behind a church in West Baltimore late Monday night.
- Police have created a special squad to investigate the recent rash of strangling deaths after the body of a woman was found behind a church in West Baltimore late Monday night.
Four prostitutes strangled since April
- Four convicted prostitutes have been strangled in Baltimore since April, raising concerns of advocates desperately trying to get women out of the profession.
- Four convicted prostitutes have been strangled in Baltimore since April, raising concerns of advocates desperately trying to get women out of the profession.
Feds look at officer’s bias complaint
- Investigators with the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Commission are probing allegations that a Baltimore police homicide supervisor ordered a black officer to view a Ku Klux Klan Web site for more than an hour.
Testimony of key Dixon aide postponed
- State Prosecutors investigating corruption at City Hall have postponed the testimony of a key Dixon aide before a grand jury this week.
Official seeks new contract law, more transparency in process
- When it comes to politics and money in Baltimore City, all roads lead to the city’s Board of Estimates, the body responsible for awarding lucrative city contracts.
Dixon probe turns to gift cards
- State prosecutors on Tuesday focused their investigation of Mayor Sheila Dixon on allegations that she misused gift cards intended for needy families, according to a City Hall source.
- State prosecutors on Tuesday focused their investigation of Mayor Sheila Dixon on allegations that she misused gift cards intended for needy families, according to a City Hall source.
City taking $578,000 loss on sale to developer, state records show
- Minority contractors filed a formal protest Friday over a loss of more than half a million dollars that Baltimore City is taking on a property sale to a politically connected developer.
- Minority contractors filed a formal protest Friday over a loss of more than half a million dollars that Baltimore City is taking on a property sale to a politically connected developer.
Councilwoman Clarke: ‘Leave the mayor alone!’
- Baltimore leaders expressed outrage Tuesday at a raid of Mayor Sheila Dixon’s home and called on prosecutors to end their investigation.
Police chief: Gang members who shot kids are ‘cowards’
- The suspected gang members involved in a shooting of two West Baltimore toddlers are nothing more than “cowards,” said Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld, who challenged the gang to turn in the gunman.
Public Works employee arrested
- For the second time this year, a Baltimore City Department of Public Works employee has been arrested while on the job.
Little-known agency financed controversial hotel deal
- When Baltimore City sold the Paramount Hotel at a multimillion-dollar loss to a developer to bolster growth on the city’s faltering west side, the deal drew criticism as a government giveaway.
- When Baltimore City sold the Paramount Hotel at a multimillion-dollar loss to a developer to bolster growth on the city’s faltering west side, the deal drew criticism as a government giveaway.
Clark asks judge to reinstate him
- Former Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Clark has asked a Circuit Court judge to order Mayor Sheila Dixon to put him back on the job as the city’s top cop.
Agency’s spending scrutinized
- A city-owned development agency without offices or employees has financed $390 million in purchases, including a hotel, an arena and sophisticated computer systems — and did so with almost no public scrutiny, critics say.