A Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate that stole data from the Washington, D.C., police department says negotiations over payment have broken down, with it rejecting a $100,000 payment, and it will release sensitive information that could put lives at risk if more ...
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A decision on the constitutionality of Maryland’s requirement that handgun permit applicants provide the state with a “good and substantial reason” to carry the weapon outside the home must await a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on a similar challenge from ...
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In Montgomery County, there is a growing debate about the role of police in addressing mental health crises. The county’s population is reliant on only two in-person assistance resources for behavioral-health related incidents. Nationwide, one in four victims of police ...
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Four partners in a Charlottesville, Virginia, law firm went without pay for several months last year as the firm struggled to repay clients affected by a half-million-dollar embezzlement. A longtime bookkeeper took money from accounts at Dygert, Wright, Hobbs & ...
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Maryland’s second highest court has resolved in favor of fired employees the procedural issue of whether they, the administrative agency they worked for or the Office of Administrative Hearings has the legal obligation to submit the record of the termination ...
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In a defeat for the tax collector, a sharply divided Maryland high court has ruled that the hotel and rental car booking website Travelocity.com does not owe state sales and use taxes for the years before Maryland’s tax law changed ...
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Transgender girls would be banned from participating in female sports teams in high school or college in two bills introduced by Republican lawmakers in Ohio, which became the latest state to take up the contentious debate. The ...
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TOWSON — Maryland officials will memorialize a 15-year-old Black boy who was lynched outside a jailhouse in a Baltimore suburb nearly 136 years ago. The Baltimore Sun reports that Howard Cooper will be memorialized with a marker and ceremony on ...
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Maryland District Court Chief Judge John P. Morrissey has told his fellow jurists and court staff not to wear any apparel that displays the “blue line” of support for law enforcement while they are on duty or on court property, ...
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A Silver Spring family, saying they were brutalized during a no-knock warrant, has filed a million-dollar federal lawsuit against the Montgomery County Police Department for what the family describes as a poorly drafted and violently executed early-morning search for the 20-something son of their basement apartment tenant.
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