Gifts to Dixon, 3 others queried
Federal investigators examining Baltimore's City Council have asked several minority developers about any gifts they gave to Council President Sheila Dixon and three former city officials as part of a...
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Governor, mayor spin state budget
During a time when government funding is scarce, Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. and Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley appropriated generous amounts of rhetoric yesterday to spin the state budget. Although...
Expense account probe may be issue in election
Dr. Terrence Fitzgerald, a Green Party candidate for the City Council running in the Nov. 2 election, said he plans to talk about the recent dust-up over the council's expense...
Council expense account altered
Mayor Martin O'Malley said last night that he would eliminate the City Council's unusual, nearly $100,000-a-year expense account system, replacing it with a process that complies with federal tax laws....
Mayor targets expense system
Mayor Martin O'Malley promised yesterday to eliminate or reform the City Council's largely unregulated $100,000-a-year expense account system, which allows members to keep for themselves any money they don't spend...
City Council expense funds questioned
As part of their months-long investigation into the Baltimore City Council, federal prosecutors are examining an unusual expense account system that pays council members $5,000 a year with no oversight...
Seaport Taxi back on water – with limits
Seaport Taxi, which halted its water shuttle service after a capsizing March 6 that killed five people, resumed limited routes around Baltimore's Inner Harbor yesterday. Meanwhile, the U.S. Coast Guard...
Inquiry looks at boat design
Federal investigators looking into Saturday's fatal capsizing of a water taxi on Baltimore's Inner Harbor are examining the design of the two-hulled Lady D and may study the safety record...
Searching for answers in harbor disaster
As rescue workers continued to search yesterday for three missing passengers of the Seaport Taxi overturned by a vicious storm Saturday, federal investigators questioned the captain, first mate and other...
Board to examine use of life jackets
Investigators are "very interested" in whether the captain of the water taxi that capsized in Baltimore's harbor Saturday told passengers to put on life jackets in the moments after he...