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Early one morning, Heather Williams got an email asking her to confirm the email she had used to sign up for Maryland’s unemployment benefits portal. But there were three major problems: Williams is employed. She lives in Canada. And she has never applied for unemployment ...

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A Washington County mother who moved frequently with her child from a homeless shelter to motels will get a new trial on a charge that she failed to send the youngster to school.

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Maryland businesses are offering bonuses to prospective employees — an effort to lure them to jobs as a worker shortage continues nationwide. The shortage comes as states continue to loosen coronavirus-related restrictions. Last week, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ...

A day after her interview for a part-time job at Target last year, Dana Anthony got an email informing her she didn’t make the cut. Anthony didn’t know why — a situation common to most job seekers at one point ...

Activists widely expected Joe Biden to take swift action against the death penalty as the first sitting president to oppose capital punishment, especially since an unprecedented spate of executions by his predecessor ended just days before Biden took office. Instead, ...

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Col. Rose M. Forrest was named the top winner in the Leadership in Law awards during The Daily Record’s Leadership in Law online celebration Thursday.  Forrest was selected by a vote of the other Leadership in Law winners. Forest is the ...

The digital edition of the 2021 Leadership in Law awards magazine.

In 1881, Adam Otterbein, a German immigrant, opened a bakery on the corner of Fort Avenue and Jackson Street in Baltimore. The basement was for baking, with the first floor serving as a retail store and the upstairs being his ...

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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s executive order requiring bidders on state contracts to forswear boycotting Israel reflects the early Cold War loyalty oaths forswearing Communism that the U.S. Supreme Court has deemed unconstitutional, a software engineer and would-be bidder who supports ...

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday challenged bans involving transgender people that target athletes in West Virginia and children in Arkansas, slamming them as violations of federal law. The department filed statements of interest in lawsuits ...