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The University of Maryland Medical System has finished implementing reforms recommended by auditors following a 2019 scandal in which UMMS board members were profiting off of business deals with the hospital system, a system official told a panel of lawmakers Wednesday. These ...

Maryland’s attorney general is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review and overturn the state high court’s decision that being placed on the sex offender registry is “punishment” that a judge must order and not a mere listing of offenders ...

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WASHINGTON — With next week’s election looming, the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google were scolded by Republicans at a Senate hearing Wednesday for alleged anti-conservative bias in the companies’ social media platforms and received a warning of coming restrictions ...

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Latino communities in Maryland have been particularly hard-hit by the coronavirus pandemic because of shared housing situations, lack of access to government benefits and distrust in health officials, experts told a legislative panel last month.

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The U.S. Census Bureau was able to claim it had reached 99.9% of households when the 2020 census ended two weeks ago because census takers were pressured to falsify data as the statistical agency cut corners and slashed standards, according ...

Outdoor seating, once a boon for restaurants that had to close their indoor dining rooms due to the coronavirus pandemic, is now presenting its own challenges as the weather in Maryland gets cooler. While some restaurants, like The Valley Inn ...

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Workers over age 50 who are exposed to loud noises on the job emerged victorious at Maryland’s top court Monday as the judges ruled that the date for calculating hearing loss for workers’ compensation is their date of retirement and ...

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Dionne Joyner-Weems is a marketing professional who helped lead Baltimore’s marketing efforts for years, first as an account executive for a local advertising agency and then at Visit Baltimore in various roles, including vice president of marketing and community affairs. ...

Amy Coney Barrett was formally sworn in Tuesday as the Supreme Court's ninth justice, her oath administered in private by Chief Justice John Roberts. Her first votes on the court could include two big topics affecting the man who appointed her.

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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The U.S. casino industry is seeking tax and regulatory relief from the government as it tries to recover from the coronavirus outbreak, which cost states more than $2 billion in lost tax revenue while casinos were ...

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