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A former Episcopal bishop serving a seven-year prison term for killing a bicyclist while driving drunk in Baltimore has asked to be released from prison and placed on home detention.

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President Donald Trump is asking a federal judge in Maryland to dismiss a lawsuit that argues that Trump's acceptance of payments from foreign and state governments at his Washington hotel violates the Constitution.

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Nine years after being released from prison where he was serving a life sentence, a Baltimore man who was wrongfully convicted will be compensated by the city for the more than 20 years he spent behind bars.

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A Maryland chiropractor has been sentenced to over a year in prison for filing years of fraudulent tax returns and attempting to obstruct internal revenue laws.

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Requiring a Baltimore synagogue to pay a stormwater management fee imposed on city property owners does not violate the facility’s right to free exercise of religion, Maryland’s second-highest court has ruled in upholding a circuit court decision.

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California and 16 other states have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its plans to scrap gas mileage standards and how much greenhouse gases vehicles can emit, Gov. Jerry Brown and Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced Tuesday.

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The Baltimore City Board of Estimates is set to approve Wednesday a $50,000 settlement with a man who injured his knee when a police officer threw him to the ground during an arrest.

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A Christian-based pregnancy center is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to let stand a lower court decision that struck down as unconstitutional a Baltimore ordinance requiring pregnancy centers opposed to abortion and artificial birth control to notify patients the facilities ...

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The plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit challenging Maryland’s system of parole as it applies to juvenile lifers say they have not been able to reach a settlement agreement with the state and have asked a judge to lift the stay on ...

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The Baltimore City Board of Estimates is set to approve this week a $9 million settlement with a man who spent 20 years in jail due to alleged actions of Baltimore Police Department detectives for a rape and murder he did not commit.

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