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In a win for a Frederick brewery, a U.S. judge struck downa North Carolina regulation that banned beer labels deemed “undignified, immodest, or in bad taste.”

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Virginia's attorney general has launched an inquiry into the Washington Commanders following allegations of financial improprieties.

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A federal grand jury indicted an Arnold doctor for allegedly submitting inflated and false Medicare claims related to COVID-19 tests his office conducted.

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A federal judge denied a request from Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby to dismiss her federal indictment Thursday.

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A National Security Agency employee has been charged with emailing classified national security information to somebody who wasn’t authorized to receive it, according to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday. Mark Robert Unkenholz, 60, of Hanover, was arrested Thursday and scheduled ...

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The Democratic-led Maryland Senate passed legislation this month calling on a state commission to compile and post circuit court sentencing data on a largely county-by county-basis, rebuffing Gov. Larry Hogan’s proposal that the posted information provide by name the sentence ...

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Gov. Larry Hogan appointed a longtime Washington County prosecutor to the local circuit court and named four women to the state district court in Baltimore.

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A publishers’ association is suing Maryland over the state’s new e-book law that requires book publishers to sell public libraries licenses to the same digital content that other customers can purchase. Maryland’s law was a first-in-the-nation effort to force major ...

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WASHINGTON — Lawyers for a Maryland woman charged along with her husband in a scheme to sell Navy submarine secrets to a foreign government denied Wednesday that she had contemplated fleeing the United States to avoid arrest. Instead, they said, ...

A Maryland appeals court upheld a man’s second-degree murder conviction in the killings of two Montgomery County teenagers on the eve of their high-school graduation.

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