After investigating, Inspector General Kelly Madigan said the $83,675 payment to Philip Tirabassi was not improper and the use of a fake name to hide the settlement was not malicious.

What have you been doing for the past 12 years?” the Sinclair Broadcast Group executive chairman demanded. “Putting out a damn good paper,” the veteran news photographer replied.

Two Baltimore City courthouse buildings were closed today after test results confirmed elevated levels of Legionella bacteria there and at a third city courthouse which reportedly did not close.

“A spray and pray Hail Mary” is what Marty calls it. A wish for our readers, supporters and all of us as The Brew takes a break for the winter holidays: May we all have such moments of effortless ...

No wonder the settlement was hidden under the false name of “Philip Dough,” an action that Baltimore County IG Kelly Madigan bent over backwards to find was not “malicious.” [OP-ED] ...

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Like an earlier grant to ABC for the same amount, this one is listed as submitted at the direction of Nick Mosby, whose term as City Council president ended two weeks ago.

The Board of Estimates will strike the $150,000 spending item from the agenda at tomorrow’s meeting, a spokesman for Comptroller Bill Henry says.

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Reutter has been reporting and writing on Baltimore since 1970, when he started as a 19-year-old summer intern covering cops for The Evening Sun. He worked on a wide range of beats for the Sunpapers, ...