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City official: Lazy workers faked water meter readings
Two city water meter readers turned in phony numbers in at least two neighborhoods in recent months, the Department of Public Works acknowledged Tuesday, leading to more inaccurate billing by an agency that has been troubled by aging infrastructure and...Tags: Employees, Water Supply, Coppin State University, Consumers, Public Officials
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A steady stream of water billing headaches
Kathy Dobropolski pleaded with Baltimore public works officials for seven years to stop billing her for a neighbor's water use.
Dobropolski, 60, lives alone in a Randallstown home without a dishwasher or clothes washer; her neighbors are a bustling...Tags: Mary Pat Clarke, Randallstown, Hospitals and Clinics, Water Supply, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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City makes $1.4 million mistake in water billing
Over the past three years, the managers of Mount Washington's Ivymount Apartments have struggled to get an accurate city water bill. But nothing prepared them for the shock of a $1.4 million bill.
Past problems paled in comparison. Once a city contractor...Tags: Mary Pat Clarke, Employees, Public Officials, Bernard C. Young, Government
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Good Samaritan Hospital settles claims it defrauded health programs
Good Samaritan Hospital agreed to pay $793,548 to settle allegations that it submitted false claims to federal health benefit programs for four years ending in December 2008, federal Department of Justice officials reported Wednesday. The hospital denied...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Rod J. Rosenstein, Government Health Care, U.S. Department of Justice, Justice System
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Legislature misses chance to end death penalty
I have spent a lot of my life waiting. I waited for two years to be executed, and I waited in prison for more than eight years — all for a murder I had nothing to do with. After finally being exonerated in 1993, I had to wait 10 years for the...
Tags: Murder, Conservation, Death Penalty, Prince George's County, Maryland General Assembly
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Medical billing a target of fraud investigations
In Maryland, an orthopedic practice agreed to pay $2.5 million to the federal government to settle allegations that it had billed for patients' visits that never took place and had double-charged for X-ray work to get higher reimbursements. In...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Medicaid, Government Health Care, Trials, Prostate Cancer
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Hopkins, Lockheed aim to modernize the ICU
Johns Hopkins intensive care nurse Nelly E. Lopez spends so much of her workday monitoring patient distress alarms that she sometimes hears phantom beeps even when she is no longer on the job.
Hopkins doctors say Lopez's "alarm fatigue" shows what is...Tags: Symptoms, Nursing, Hospitals and Clinics, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Government Health Care
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Voter ID laws cost much, accomplish little
A healthy civic society requires protecting citizens' fundamental right to vote while ensuring the integrity of our electoral system. Sadly, this goal is being jeopardized by a coordinated, nationwide effort to enact voter ID laws that will not solve...Tags: African Americans, Election Rigging, Minority Groups, Polls, Security
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Lawyer's office loses hard drive with patient information: Naughty Business of the Week
The 161 patients of Dr. Mark G. Midei who are party to a malpractice suit against the cardiologist may have had their personal information compromised as a result of the security practices of a Baltimore law firm, reports Tricia Bishop.
According to the...Tags: Lawyers, Theft, Business Enterprises, Health and Medical Professionals, Personal Data Collection
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Baltimore City Council candidates poised to overcome write-ins
Two Baltimore City Council candidates were poised to overcome write-in challenges Tuesday, converting their Democratic nominations into general election victories.
Councilman Warren Branch of the 13th District was leading write-in challenger Shannon...Tags: Mary Pat Clarke, Robert W. Curran, Sharon Green Middleton, Voting, Carl Stokes
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Regulator vows to improve trucking enforcement
The nation's top trucking regulators said Wednesday that their agency is moving to prevent companies that have been shut down for repeated safety violations from staying in business by changing their names, a recurring problem in the industry. The...Tags: Kennedy Krieger Institute, Consumer Goods Industries, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Highway Transportation, Learning Disability
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Arguments in Exxon lawsuit wrapping up
At the beginning of a closing statement that he predicted would last the better part of two days, a lawyer representing 300 plaintiffs who are suing ExxonMobil Corp. said yesterday in Baltimore County Circuit Court that their community was "forever...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Lawyers, Trials, Litigation, Petroleum Industry
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