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Baltimore city moved to dismiss a lawsuit over a city code section that allows an eviction to proceed with no notice, arguing the plaintiffs’ claims “have no legal merit.” Marshall Todman and Tiffany Gattis filed suit in U.S. District Court ...

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NEW YORK — Harvey Weinstein and his former film studio’s board have reached a tentative $25 million settlement that would end nearly every sexual misconduct lawsuit brought against him and his company, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The Times ...

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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department’s internal watchdog was caught in a political tug of war Wednesday as Republican and Democratic senators used his report on the origins of the Russia investigation to back their views that it was an important ...

Jurors are expected to hear attorneys' opening statements on Wednesday for the trial of a white man charged with fatally stabbing a black college student on the University of Maryland’s campus.

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Maryland Court of Appeals Criminal Procedure; Habeas corpus: A petitioner who was on unsupervised probation and living in Michigan was not eligible to seek habeas corpus relief in Maryland because he was not committed, detained, confined, or restrained in Maryland ...

A North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to a federal murder charge in the 2002 shooting of a worker at a Maryland business, a federal prosecutor said.

A Maryland woman was sentenced Tuesday to more than three years in prison for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from an airline and a hospitality company that both employed her as a marketing executive, prosecutors said.

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Gov. Larry Hogan filled two vacancies on the Montgomery County Circuit Court Tuesday, appointing a family division magistrate judge and a partner at a local law firm to the bench. Magistrate Bibi Berry and Michael McAuliffe filled vacancies created by the ...

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Tensions were running high at Baltimore’s Immigration Court, with more than 30 people packed into Judge Zakia Mahasa’s courtroom, many facing the prospect of being deported. Most of those who stood before Mahasa appeared to be teenagers. Some came with ...

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District Heights Mayor Eddie L. Martin will serve one weekend in jail and pay more than $22,000 in restitution after being convicted last month of misconduct in office for using city letterhead to buy fireworks on behalf of a friend. ...

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