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BALTIMORE - A Fledgling women's rights group that used mobile billboards, an online petition and Facebook advertisements to push for the ouster of Baltimore Housing Commissioner Paul T. Graziano says it plans to continue the campaign, which grew from a…
BALTIMORE - Public housing tenants in Baltimore who alleged they were sexually harassed and abused by maintenance workers will share up to $8 million in a settlement of a class-action lawsuit that exposed poor living conditions in the subsidized complexes.…
BALTIMORE - Attorneys are seeking class-action status for a lawsuit against the Housing Authority of Baltimore City and some of its maintenance workers, arguing that many more tenants may have been victims of an alleged sex-for-repairs scheme. The request, filed…
BALTIMORE - A Housing Authority of Baltimore City employee who joined a lawsuit accusing agency maintenance workers of harassment and sexual assault has been suspended indefinitely without pay. Anthony Coates, a housing authority worker who also is president of the…
BALTIMORE - Settlement talks are set to begin in January between the Housing Authority of Baltimore City and 11 women who allege that maintenance men demanded sex before making repairs, according to electronic court records. U.S. Magistrate Judge Beth P.…
BALTIMORE - Seven women at a West Baltimore public housing complex filed a lawsuit Monday alleging that maintenance workers demanded sexual favors in return for repairing a gas leak, exterminating roaches and making other improvements. In the lawsuit, the women…
BALTIMORE - Former Morgan State University student charged with attempted murder for stabbing another student in a campus fight accepted a guilty plea to a lesser charge and received probation before judgment. Carlos Mars, 20, of District Heights, was facing…
BALTIMORE - The Morgan State University student charged with critically wounding another student during a fight could be released on bail, after his attorney argued that he has a "significant" self-defense claim. Baltimore District Judge Nathan Braverman set a $500,000…
BALTIMORE - City prosecutors dropped drug charges yesterday against the father of the Baltimore 4-year-old who became famous last month when she was mistakenly identified as an abandoned child from New York. Robert Andrew Persons was arrested May 7 on…
BALTIMORE - The mother and father of Akasha Persons, the 3-year-old who was abandoned this month, were face-to-face yesterday for the first time in two years at a preliminary custody hearing in Baltimore's Juvenile Justice Center. Patricia Harper and Robert…