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A federal appeals court on Wednesday dismissed Maryland’s lawsuit alleging corruption by President Donald Trump in the handling of his hotel property in Washington. In a published 3-0 decision, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that Maryland has ...

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The Baltimore Police Department’s marine unit wasted more than $30,000 in a botched boat salvage operation in late 2016 and early 2017, the city’s inspector general has concluded. The unit began removing a 32-foot boat from the Inner Harbor near ...

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Maryland Court of Appeals Criminal Procedure; Inconsistent verdicts: Where indictment charged defendant with robbery, second-degree assault, and theft, and jury returned a guilty verdict on the robbery and theft charges and a not guilty verdict on the second-degree assault charge, ...

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A federal jury has ordered the former Baltimore police officer who was convicted of assaulting a 14-year-old handcuffed to a hospital gurney to pay the teen's family $100,000.

Four Maryland teenagers sneaked onto their school's property the night before graduation last year and covered it in racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic graffiti.

The Federal Aviation Administration is going to reconsider its position challenging Maryland over new flight patterns and the noise they bring residents near Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.

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The attorney general for the District of Columbia is suing Marriott, saying it's misleading customers by advertising room rates without including mandatory resort fees.

The Equal Justice Council of Maryland Legal Aid presented the 22nd annual Equal Justice Awards Breakfast June 4 at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Maryland House of Delegates Speaker Adrienne Jones was the keynote speaker for the event, the Hon. ...

Maryland’s top court has refused to reinstate a man’s involuntary manslaughter and assault convictions, saying the trial judge should have barred prosecutors from disclosing the accused killer’s statement to police that he was at the crime scene to sell cocaine ...

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A federal jury awarded $100,000 Tuesday to a man who was assaulted by a Baltimore Police officer while restrained in a hospital in 2015. Shymell Maxwell was 14 when Officer Duane Williams Jr. entered his hospital room at Sinai Hospital ...

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