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A Baltimore jury has awarded more than $113,000 to a Hampstead woman who was fired weeks after informing her employer she had breast cancer. Kelly Rankin was awarded $37,800 each for economic damages, emotional distress damages and punitive damages on ...

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ANNAPOLIS – An attorney for Kennedy Krieger Institute told a skeptical Maryland high court Tuesday the research facility owed no legal duty to siblings of participants in its controversial 1990s lead-paint abatement study in Baltimore and thus cannot be sued ...

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'Everybody has a briefcase that we don’t tell the people we care about and we don’t ask the people we care about.'

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Topgolf announced its plans to open a facility in south Baltimore official on Tuesday, and the facility was hailed as a major step toward creating the planned Warner Street Entertainment District. Located on what’s currently a parking lot in the ...

ANNAPOLIS —  Sexual harassment complaints in the state capital will be investigated differently under a bill signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Larry Hogan. The law, sponsored by Del. Ariana B. Kelly, D-Montgomery, was one of 216 bills signed by the ...

Agtech startup Gotham Greens plans to open a 100,000-square-foot hydroponic greenhouse in the northern section of Tradepoint Atlantic, the 3,100-acre multi-modal global logistics hub in the Sparrows Point section of Baltimore County. Gotham Green’s operation at the site is expected ...

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NEW YORK — The Manhattan District Attorney’s office is investigating allegations of violence against women by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who resigned just hours after accounts of abuse by four women. It was a swift and stunning fall ...

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The number of people who passed Maryland’s February bar exam hit a 47-year low, with just a 38 percent passage rate overall.

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The following is a list of successful applicants to the Maryland Bar Examination held on Feb. 27 and Feb. 28, 2018.

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ANNAPOLIS — The state’s appeal of a case in which the General Assembly withheld the salaries of two Cabinet members hinges largely on whether Maryland’s top court believes the governor validly used recess appointments after withdrawing their nominations from Senate consideration ...