The three young children of an Uber driver allegedly killed by a passenger in Oxon Hill filed suit against the ride-share company in federal court this week, saying their father would still be alive if the firm conducted criminal background ...
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Three correctional officers are among nine people facing federal charges of conspiring to smuggle narcotics, cellphones and tobacco into the Chesapeake Detention Facility in Baltimore, Maryland U.S. Attorney Robert K. Hur said Wednesday. The alleged scheme, which also included four ...
Tagged with: Cell phones correctional officers marijuana pretrial detention racketeering smuggling suboxone tobacco
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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Tuesday sued Google for antitrust violations, alleging that it abused its dominance in online search and advertising to stifle competition and harm consumers. The lawsuit marks the government’s most significant act to protect competition ...
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An effort by a Baltimore victim of childhood lead paint exposure to collect on a $1.53 million judgment has moved to federal court, where her former landlord’s insurer seeks a judicial court order that it owes only a prorated portion ...
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Montgomery County’s first criminal jury trial in a socially distanced world went “flawlessly,” and the selection of the masked jurors went “quicker than normal,” the county’s chief prosecutor said Thursday. State’s Attorney John McCarthy said the jury was selected within ...
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Prominent medical malpractice attorney Stephen L. Snyder has been indicted on a federal attempted extortion charge and related offenses stemming from his alleged demand that the University of Maryland Medical System pay him $25 million or he would go public ...
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Drivers in Maryland and Virginia owe more than $373 million in fines from outstanding parking and traffic citations in the city of Washington. The Washington Post reported Sunday that the fines are for the past four years and were issued ...
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ANNAPOLIS — A midshipman is suing the U.S. Naval Academy after he was disciplined for tweeting that Breonna Taylor received “justice” when she was fatally shot by police. Midshipman 1st Class Chase Standage, 21, says in the lawsuit that the ...
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A female bartender at Rocky Gap Casino Resort told management of being sexually harassed by a male colleague but was ignored and later reassigned to a less-trafficked bar, leaving her with no choice but to quit, the U.S. Equal Employment ...
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A federal judge this week dismissed – at least for now — civil rights claims brought against state prison personnel by the family of a prisoner beaten to death by his cellmate in a western Maryland penitentiary. Benjamin Hall’s family ...
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