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Two Maryland teenagers have pleaded guilty to writing racist and Nazi graffiti on their Glenelg high school over the summer.

Tagged with: Glenelg High School Howard County Joshua Shaffer Matthew Lipp Seth Taylor Tyler Curtiss

Maryland will receive a portion of a $575 million settlement between Wells Fargo and all 50 states and the District of Columbia to settle claims the bank violated state consumer protection laws, state Attorney General Brian E. Frosh’s office announced ...

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At the United States Supreme Court this year, Justice Anthony Kennedy retired, his former law clerk Justice Brett Kavanaugh replaced him, and the court addressed a number of significant — and sometime controversial — issues. Here are 10 cases to ...

The Court of Special Appeals upheld the conviction of a man who challenged the validity of a warrant that was based on observations police made when they arrested him in his home earlier that day. Curtis Groves pleaded guilty to ...

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A former Cross Street Market tenant seeking damages for being displaced is now turning to the state’s highest court for relief, according to a petition for certiorari filed Thursday. In an unreported opinion in November, the Court of Special Appeals ...

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Defendants who reject plea bargains and are convicted when they choose to go to trial for many types of crimes face longer sentences in Baltimore – sometimes substantially longer – than defendants who make a deal, a Capital News Service ...

The federal judge overseeing the Baltimore consent decree refused to postpone deadlines while the U.S. Department of Justice grapples with the government shutdown that began Dec. 21, but work should continue under the department’s contingency plan. Submissions are due this ...

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A judge in Baltimore has ordered a psychiatric evaluation for a woman accused of setting several cars on fire in a historic city neighborhood.

Tagged with: Baltimore Lakia Letterlough

From selecting the stories that pop up in our Facebook feeds to deciding whether we’ll get a loan, artificial intelligence algorithms make countless choices that influence our lives. Now, they’re permeating courtroom judgments. In some jurisdictions, “risk assessment” algorithms help ...

A federal agency is asking the U.S. District Court to stay several pending cases in Maryland because of the partial federal government shutdown. According to several online court records in at least four lawsuits filed in federal court in the ...

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