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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 - Sometimes we do Nice Time here at yr Wonkette when bad people get their just desserts and when good people finally prevail. Other times, we just can’t get to Nice Time because the underlying bits are so awful…
BALTIMORE - M.G.’s refrigerator in her apartment in Gilmor Homes, a public housing complex in Baltimore, had been broken for years. She filed numerous work orders seeking to get it fixed or replaced, but nothing ever happened. Until 2008, when…
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 - Their choice was stark: Give in to demands for sex or wait forever to get badly-needed repairs done on their units in Baltimore's crumbling housing projects. But now 20 women who filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit in September…
BALTIMORE - A settlement has been reached in the massive "sex-for-repairs" lawsuit filed by women living in public housing in Baltimore City. Nineteen women say they were forced to give in to the demands of maintenance men, or problems in…
1. Freddie Gray dies, outrage ensues. When police chased down and arrested Freddie Gray, 25, on April 12, they could not have known what forces they were unleashing. Gray's death seven days later from severe spinal-cord injuries he received in the…
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 (WJZ) — Battered on all sides. Baltimore’s housing commissioner is being asked to explain a potential sex for repairs scandal, fix falling apart housing and even resign. Alex DeMetrick has the storm of controversies hitting the city’s housing administration…
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…