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A person who secretly records what becomes a self-damning telephone conversation cannot block it from being introduced into evidence by saying Maryland law prohibits the covert recording, the state’s top court unanimously ruled Tuesday in upholding the gun- and drug-possession ...

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Court of Special Appeals Negligence, Duty to warn: Where the wife of an employee who worked with an asbestos-containing product died due to malignant mesothelioma contracted after years of washing the employee’s dirty work clothes and her survivors and estate ...

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A Maryland woman has been acquitted of murder in the 2017 death of her estranged husband, a retired FBI agent.

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Prosecutors say a school principal stole around $13,000 in campaign funds from a Baltimore County delegate who died in 2015.

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Gov. Larry Hogan has elevated Court of Special Appeals Judge Matthew J. Fader to head Maryland’s second-highest court. Fader, 45, will succeed Court of Special Appeals Chief Judge Patrick L. Woodward, who reaches the state’s mandatory judicial retirement age of ...

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Fewer people filed complaints against Maryland attorneys in fiscal 2018 than they have in the past decade, according to the latest Attorney Grievance Commission annual report. In the last fiscal year, bar counsel received 1,802 complaints, down from 2,061, of ...

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s attorneys on Tuesday submitted his written answers to a series of questions from Special Counsel Robert Mueller about Trump’s knowledge of the Russian government’s efforts to assist his 2016 White House bid. The inquiries only ...

HOUSTON — A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from refusing asylum to immigrants who cross the southern border illegally. President Donald Trump issued a proclamation on Nov. 9 circumventing immigration law, saying anyone who crossed the southern border ...

A bartender who pleaded guilty to killing three co-workers at a Maryland restaurant has been sentenced to life in prison.

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Two more men have been found guilty in the killings of two Maryland high school students on the eve of their graduation, bringing the number of convictions in the case to three.

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