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Dixon pleads not guilty to theft charges

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 15:53:00 -0500

Selection process exhausts jury pool; Dixon, lawyers pore over hundreds of questionnaires

Mayor Sheila Dixon is spending her day poring over hundreds of jury questionnaires as she and her attorneys select the 12 citizens to sit for her theft trial. In her first trip to court since being indicted in January, the mayor walked through the front door of Courthouse East in downtown Baltimore just after 9 a.m. Until now, her defense team has handled proceedings on her behalf. Dixon, 55, is accused of buying person items with retail gift cards that local developers donated to her office for needy families.

Bay cleanup plan calls for expanded federal regulation

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 14:14:00 -0500

Obama administration stops short of complete federal takeover

Obama administration stops short of complete federal takeover

Long wait may soon end for Md. nominee to U.S. appeals court

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Federal judge in Baltimore could get confirmed today

It has been nine years since federal District Judge Andre M. Davis of Baltimore was first nominated to fill the so-called Maryland seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va.

After nearly 4-year probe, Baltimore mayor to get day in court

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Dixon to face charges she stole and spent gift cards for the needy

I t was a day packed with official events for Mayor Sheila Dixon: approving millions of dollars in contracts at a Board of Estimates meeting, holding a news conference to urge parents to vaccinate their children against swine flu , pushing health care reform at a town hall meeting, surprising a Baltimore school with a visit, even playing bingo at a senior center that she had fought to keep open.

Delegates seek reaction to bill limiting liquor licenses

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

T he number of liquor store licenses could be limited for the first time in Howard County, if a bill on the county's General Assembly delegation's list is approved this year.

Waiting to learn who pays Dixon's bills

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Taxpayers might wind up paying fees of her seven defense lawyers

Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon's legal bills, racked up during a years-long corruption probe that has led her to enlist seven criminal defense attorneys for a theft trial next week, could run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, legal observers say. Yet city residents have no idea how their elected leader plans to pay. Dixon's chief attorneys, Arnold M. Weiner and Dale P. Kelberman, have consistently declined to explain whether they are working pro bono or how they are being compensated. The mayor, too, has been mum.

Kratovil announces opposition to health care legislation

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 11:17:00 -0500

But Democratic congressman says he could support 'a better bill' in future

But Democratic congressman says he could support 'a better bill' in future

Young people at center of politics, Steele says

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

He, Schock advise students at Hopkins to stay involved

The Republican National Committee chairman told a Johns Hopkins University student audience Thursday night that they were "not the future" of politics, but were in fact at the center of it today.

Mikulski asks attorney general to help dead fire cadet's family

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Justice Dept. didn't respond adequately, senator tells Holder

Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski asked Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday to assist the family of a Baltimore fire cadet killed in a training exercise whose death benefit claim was rejected by the Department of Justice.

States urge stiffer anti-pollution laws

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Twelve states, including Maryland, and the District of Columbia urged the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday to adopt more rigorous national policies so they can meet federal air pollution reduction requirements for the region.