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0 Politics & Government — Baltimore County Director of Economic and Workforce Development Leonard J. Howie III today announced he will depart Baltimore County. Press Release Desk , News Partner Posted Reply Press release from the Baltimore County Government: March 27, 2023 TOWSON, MD — Baltimore County Director of Economic and Workforce Development Leonard J. Howie III today announced he will depart Baltimore County Government to join the Office of Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown, effective April 7, 2023. Howie, who has served as Baltimore County’s director since September 2020, led Baltimore County’s efforts to improve workforce development, attract and retain businesses, and expand the County’s economy. Joining County Government amid the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated economic crisis, Howie helped coordinate the County’s economic stabilization and recovery efforts. Prior to joining … [Read more...] about Baltimore County Announces Economic And Workforce Development Director To Join Office Of Maryland Attorney

WASHINGTON — As the housing bubble entered its waning hours in 2006, top Federal Reserve officials marveled at the desperate antics of home builders seeking to lure buyers. The officials laughed about the cars that builders were offering as signing bonuses, and about efforts to make empty homes look occupied. They joked about one builder who said that inventory was “rising through the roof.” But the officials, meeting every six weeks to discuss the health of the nation’s economy, gave little credence to the possibility that the faltering housing market would weigh on the broader economy, according to transcripts that the Fed released Thursday. Instead they continued to tell one another throughout 2006 that the greatest danger was inflation — the possibility that the economy would grow too fast. “We think the fundamentals of the expansion going forward still look good,” Timothy F. Geithner, then president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, told his colleagues when they … [Read more...] about Inside the Fed in 2006: A Coming Crisis, and Banter

0 Crime & Safety Baltimore has spent $22.2 million to settle nearly 40 cases involving the rogue law enforcement unit. Megan VerHelst , Patch Staff Posted | Updated Reply BALTIMORE, MD — The city of Baltimore will pay $6 million to the family of a man killed during a 2010 police chase involving Gun Trace Task Force officers, according to an Associated Press report. Baltimore has spent $22.2 million to settle nearly 40 cases involving the rogue law enforcement unit created to get illegal guns off the streets. Instead, members robbed drug dealers, planted narcotics and firearms on innocent people, and assaulted random civilians. More than a dozen officers have been convicted in the scandal since 2017. At least five other cases are pending in various stages of litigation, and hundreds of cases that hinged on their testimony were later dropped. "This is what happened when we didn't have the oversight, when … [Read more...] about Baltimore To Pay $6M Settlement Related To Gun Trace Task Force

close Video The house of alleged Covenant School shooter, Audrey Hale, is boarded up The house of alleged Covenant School shooter Audrey Hale is boarded up in Nashville, Tennessee on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Hale was killed by police after shooting six people in the school on Monday. (KR/Mega for Fox News Digital) Nashville police have released bodycam video of the Covenant School shooting response, during which they killed shooter Audrey Elizabeth Hale, a 28-year-old transgender former student who they say gunned down three 9-year-olds and three adults Monday. "The kids are all locked down, but we have two kids that we don't know where they are," a woman told Nashville Officer Rex Englebert as he grabbed a rifle out of the back of his police SUV. "OK," he said. "Yes ma'am." Within moments, sirens blare as he unlocked a side door and led the charge inside the building. Officers searched the classrooms with a determined urgency before the … [Read more...] about Nashville school shooting: Audrey Hale police bodycams released

0 Crime & Safety One of the Baltimore officers involved a federal corruption probe pleaded not guilty. He was convicted and sentenced to prison. Elizabeth Janney , Patch Staff Posted | Updated Reply BALTIMORE, MD — A former Baltimore detective was sentenced to federal prison time. He was the second officer from the Baltimore Police Department to be sentenced Thursday in a case that brought to light a corrupt contingent within the eighth largest municipal police department in the U.S. Former Detective Marcus Roosevelt Taylor, 30, of Glen Burnie, entered a plea of not guilty in the federal racketeering case. He was sentenced hours after the highest ranking officer in the racketeering conspiracy was ordered to serve federal prison time. Seven members of the 3,100-member Baltimore Police Department were indicted in the federal racketeering case. Sgt. Wayne Jenkins, who headed up the gun trace task force, was sentenced … [Read more...] about Baltimore Detective Pleads Not Guilty, Gets 18 Years In Prison

0 Politics & Government Alameda residents wishing to serve on the Civil Grand Jury can apply online. Kim Harris , Patch Staff Posted Reply ALAMEDA, CA — Alameda residents wishing to serve on the Superior Court of Alameda County Civil Grand Jury are in luck since the court is now seeking applications for nominees to serve the fiscal year beginning July 1. The Civil Grand Jury is convened by the court to investigate local government for the purpose of ensuring that public agencies are working in the best interest of the public, and are doing so effectively and economically. Potential nominees should know that participation on the Civic Grand Jury is a significant commitment with at least two meetings per week in Oakland for one year, Alameda County said in a news release . While nominations are accepted throughout the year, the current focus is to build a Grand Jury for this fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023. … [Read more...] about Superior Court of Alameda County Accepting Civil Grand Jury Nominees