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Nearly 200 people gathered on Dec. 9 at the Lord Baltimore Hotel to celebrate Maryland Legal Services Corporation’s 2019 annual awards reception. MLSC presented awards to five individuals and one organization, recognizing significant contributions to civil legal services and access ...

Federal prosecutors are seeking review of an appellate decision that invalidated their method of searching potentially privileged law firm files last year. Prosecutors seized files and emails from Brown, Goldstein & Levy LLP last year as part of an investigation into ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Juvenile justice and parole reform are needed to cure a Maryland prison system in which inmates are serving overly long sentences for crimes they committed as young adults, a justice policy analyst told a Senate panel Thursday. Marc ...

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A Howard County jury awarded $150,000 — including $37,000 in punitive damages — to a tenant whose landlord repeatedly failed to address mold contamination for nearly a year. The jury found Port Capital Village Limited Partnership liable for breach of ...

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Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh has joined 13 other states in a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture that seeks to block a Trump administration rule that would cut off food stamp benefits to nearly 700,000 people nationwide, ...

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The White House violated federal law in withholding security assistance to Ukraine, an action at the center of President Donald Trump's impeachment, a federal watchdog agency said Thursday.

Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh Thursday joined a group of 15 attorneys general and New York City in a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from eliminating food assistance for nearly 700,000 Americans. Joining Maryland in the lawsuit are the attorneys ...

The U.S. Senate opened the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on Thursday, with House Democrats reading the formal charges in the chamber ahead of the swearing in of all 100 senators as jurors for only the third trial to remove a president in U.S. history.

Federal authorities have charged another Baltimore police detective in connection with allegations of corruption in a rogue unit.

A veteran police officer in Maryland was sentenced Wednesday to probation before judgment for gifting department iPhones to loved ones.