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Marilyn Bentley, who ascended to the office of Clerk of the Baltimore Circuit Court after her two previous bosses died in office, led a crowded field Tuesday in the race to secure the job at the polls. - Hundreds of people, including top city and state officials, on Monday mourned the death of longtime Baltimore Circuit Court Clerk Frank M. Conaway Sr. at a funeral held at Morgan State University's Fine Arts Center.
- Frank M. Conaway Sr., the long-time clerk of the Baltimore City Court, died in his sleep at his Northwest Baltimore home. He was found Sunday morning. He was 82.
- Capitalizing on a GOP surge nationally, Maryland Republicans picked up several seats in the General Assembly where they have been the minority party for years.
- Baltimore voters cast ballots on a measure that would allow the city council to hire its own lawyer, an issue that stood out among otherwise humdrum contests in which most candidates ran unopposed.
- Defense attorney Russell A. Neverdon Sr. formally filed on Wednesday to run as a write in candidate for Baltimore State's Attorney after a city judge issued a ruling that kept his name off the ballot.
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- Marilyn J. Mosby defeated Baltimore City State's Attorney Gregg L. Bernstein on Tuesday after criticizing him for failing to live up to promises he made four years ago to win the office.
- The Baltimore Planning Department is beginning a series of public events Wednesday to introduce the public to the first comprehensive zoning legislation introduced in more than 40 years.
- At least eight candidates for Congress in 2012 — including four prominent contenders — do not live in the district they are competing for, a review of elections and state property tax records shows.
- The year 2011 as seen through the rear-view mirror, the high- and the low lights of the year in Baltimore and Maryland
- 'If a developer came to you, you'd give out the tax breaks,' Clarke says
- Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake went to a dilapidated East Baltimore elementary school Monday to urge the City Council to adopt her plan to raise the city's bottle tax to help pay for a major school renovation program.
- Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake plans to propose Monday a plan to boost yearly funding for public school construction by $23 million, in part by increasing the city's bottle tax to 5 cents.
- Two Baltimore City Council candidates were poised to overcome write-in challenges Tuesday, converting their Democratic nominations into general election victories.
- Baltimore elections officials predicted very low turnout at the polls Tuesday, as city residents vote in the general election
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- Voters who cast ballots in Tuesday's general election will also have a chance to weigh in on two issues concerning the city's younger residents – although the impact of both initiatives is unclear.
- Nick Mosby, the Democratic nominee for City Council in Baltimore's 7th District, urges city youth to aim higher than the temptations of the streets. He hopes to continue to carry this message as a councilman. First he has to hold off a write-in challenge from Councilwoman Belinda Conaway in Tuesday's general election.
- Baltimore City Councilwoman Belinda Conaway, who is running a write-in campaign to keep her seat in the Nov. 8 election, accused the city elections board Tuesday of committing "major fraud" by mailing out incorrect absentee ballots to 7th District voters.
- At a time when campaigns in Baltimore usually are over, candidates in two City Council races are spending thousands of dollars battling to win the Nov. 8 general election.
- Belinda Conaway, a two-term City Councilwoman, chair of the council's budget committee and the daughter of a prominent political family, has launched a write-in campaign in which she paints herself as an enemy of the political establishment.
