Elkton to pay $235K for firing 70-year-old 

BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: October 21, 2012
Tags: elkton, lawsuit, maryland, Settlement, verdict

The town of Elkton will pay $235,000 to an assistant town administrator/finance director it fired, allegedly because of his age, under a settlement reached last week with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Ashland to raze Elkton factory before selling site

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: September 13, 2012
Tags: ashland, celanese corp., elkton, emulsion polymers, factory, Manufacturing

ELKTON — Ashland Inc. company officials say they have discontinued production at an Elkton manufacturing facility and plan to tear it down. Gary Rhodes, director of corporate communications for Kentucky-based Ashland, says most of the business associated with the site was sold to Celanese Corp. earlier this year. He says production at the factory ceased [...]

Md. to require licenses for abortion clinics

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: June 22, 2012
Tags: abortions, elkton, Health Care

Maryland’s health department is adopting new regulations requiring licenses for surgical abortion clinics for the first time. The new regulations announced Friday apply to about 20 clinics and are a response to a 2010 incident in which a woman needed emergency surgery after an abortion performed by an unlicensed doctor at an Elkton clinic. Clinics [...]

Murder charges against abortion docs dropped in Maryland

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: March 6, 2012
Tags: abortion, abortion doctors, dr. steven brigham, elkton, fetus, maryland, nicola riley, state attorney general ellis rollins, the cecil whig

ELKTON — Maryland prosecutors have dismissed murder charges against two out-of-state doctors in the death of a fetus during a 2010 procedure, citing conflicts in expert testimony. As first reported by The Cecil Whig, State’s Attorney Ellis Rollins dismissed charges Tuesday against Drs. Steven Brigham of New Jersey and Nicola Riley of Utah. They had [...]

Abortion doc’s lawyers seek dismissal of murder charges in Maryland

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 30, 2012
Tags: abortion doctor, dr. steven brigham, elkton, fetuses, maryland, medical license, new jersey, second-trimester abortions, washington

WASHINGTON — Lawyers for a New Jersey abortion doctor charged with murder for the deaths of five fetuses in Maryland are asking a judge to dismiss the charges. Dr. Steven Brigham’s attorneys list several reasons why the charges should be thrown out, including that the fetuses actually died in New Jersey, not Maryland. Brigham lost [...]

Elkton woman faces jail for giving teen abortion pill

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 12, 2012
Tags: abortion, abortion pill, Cecil County, child abuse, elkton, pregnancy, pregnant, reckless-endangerment, RU-486, sandra craine, second-degree child-abuse

ELKTON — An Elkton woman may face prison time for giving an abortion pill ordered from an overseas website to a pregnant 16-year-old girl. Sixty-two-year-old Sandra Craine pleaded guilty last month to reckless endangerment as part of a deal with Cecil County prosecutors. A second-degree child abuse charge was dropped. Prosecutors say Craine gave a [...]

Arraignment held for abortion doctor accused of murder

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 6, 2012
Tags: abortion, arraignment, Cecil County, crime, dr. nicole irene riley, dr. steven brigham, elkton, maryland, murder, new jersey

ELKTON — A doctor charged with murder in connection with abortions has been arraigned in Maryland. Dr. Steven Brigham of Voorhees, N.J., was arraigned in Cecil County Circuit Court on Friday. He faces five counts each of first-degree murder and second-degree murder in abortions he allegedly performed in a clinic in Elkton. The Cecil Whig [...]

Abortion doctor accused of murder returning to Md.

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 5, 2012
Tags: abortion, abortion clinics, doctor, elkton, late-term abortion, murder, steven brigham

CAMDEN, N.J. — A New Jersey doctor charged with 10 counts of murder for providing late-term abortions in Maryland has agreed to return to that state to face charges. Steven Brigham waived extradition at a hearing Wednesday in Camden, N.J. The 55-year-old is still being held at the Camden County Jail Thursday. Jail officials say [...]

Authorities: Abortion doctors charged with murder

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: December 30, 2011
Tags: abortion, baby, charged, doctors, Dr. Nicola Irene Riley, dr. steven brigham, elkton, fetus, maryland, murder, pregnant

WASHINGTON — Two out-of-state doctors who traveled to Maryland to perform late-term abortions have been arrested and charged with multiple counts of murder under the state’s viable fetus law, authorities said. Dr. Steven Brigham, of Voorhees, N.J., was taken into custody Wednesday night and is being held in the Camden County jail, according to police [...]

Baltimore drug kingpin enters guilty plea

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: November 23, 2011
Tags: Baltimore, barbeque, dominican republic, drug kingpin, drugs, elkton, heroin, laundering heroin, maryland, steven blackwell, tax fraud, u..s district court

A Baltimore drug kingpin has pleaded guilty to laundering heroin proceeds and tax fraud. Steven Blackwell of Elkton pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to distribute heroin, launder money and defraud the U.S. government on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. His trial was scheduled to begin next week. If the court accepts the plea [...]

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