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University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) ranks in the top 10 of “Most Innovative Schools” among Regional Universities—North, in the popular U.S. News “Best Colleges” issue. UMGC, the nation’s largest online public university, was No. 9 in the ranking, which is based ...

Atlantic Data Forensics (ADF) Friday was awarded Cyber Defender of the Year in the 2020 MD Cybersecurity Awards by the Cybersecurity Association of Maryland Inc. (CAMI), Maryland’s only nonprofit organization dedicated to bolstering the growth of the state’s cybersecurity industry. The MD Cybersecurity ...

The STEM Next Opportunity Fund Friday announced a multi-year grant to the Maryland Out of School Time (MOST) Network as part of the Million Girls Moonshot. MOST is a statewide youth development organization, dedicated to more and better opportunities in ...

Criminal law — Sufficiency of evidence — Involuntary manslaughter and first-degree child abuse In 2008, D.M., child of Tamekia Martin, appellant, suffered serious injuries while in appellant’s care. Appellant was thereafter charged, in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, with ...

Real property — Foreclosure — Motion to alter or amend judgment In this appeal from a foreclosure action in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, Daryl Green, appellant, challenges the denial of his (1) motion to alter or amend ...

Real property — Declaratory judgment — Prescriptive easement This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, the Honorable Thomas P. Smith presiding, in which the court entered a declaratory judgment that a prescriptive ...

Real property — Declaratory judgment — Easement Contrary to the view put forth by Robert Frost, fences do not always make good neighbors. In this appeal we are asked by appellants, Farhad Hejazi and Caroline Colella, his wife, plaintiffs below, ...

Criminal procedure — Motion to suppress evidence — Video testimony Brandon Burton was convicted in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City of home invasion, burglary, kidnapping, robbery, possession of a handgun, and conspiracy. On appeal, Mr. Burton argues that the ...

Criminal procedure — Motion to suppress evidence — Plain view exception This case asks whether 64 new and individually-boxed golf gloves, found inside a duffel bag, in the home of a suspected thief, could immediately appear incriminating to a police ...

Criminal procedure — State’s discovery disclosure — Timeliness A jury for the Circuit Court for Montgomery County convicted appellant, Alex Cruz-Mendoza, of second-degree arson, malicious burning with intent to defraud, conspiracy to commit second-degree arson, and making a false statement. ...