The state of Maryland is pumping more money into scrap tire collection. The Board of Public Works on Thursday added $1.5 million to the $500,000 it approved for the project in May. The funding will reimburse counties that collect scrap ...

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The Supreme Court’s justices appeared divided Tuesday over the constitutionality of a Maryland law that permits police to collect DNA samples from people arrested on charges of having committed or having attempted to commit a violent crime.

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Maryland’s chief legal officer and its chief public defender are awaiting word from the U.S. Supreme Court on whether it will keep allowing the state’s police to collect DNA samples from people arrested for violent crimes, despite a Maryland high court ruling that bars the collections except when absolutely necessary to identify the arrestee.

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The Maryland Office of the Public Defender on Friday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to stop allowing police to collect DNA samples from people arrested for violent crimes, contrary to a ruling by the state’s highest court.

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Report: Raze Mechanic because of subway jolts A private engineering study has found widespread corrosion in the parking garage beneath the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre due in part to stray electrical currents from subway trains, according to an Owings Mills ...

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Maryland police can temporarily resume collecting DNA samples from people arrested for violent crimes, U.S. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ruled on Wednesday.

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MAYO — Go ahead and point to an album on Jeff Place’s crowded basement shelves. Ask him to identify it. Just try and stump him. It won’t work, even though a splash of color and a few words are all ...

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Taking a giant step toward an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, Maryland’s attorney general on Tuesday urged the state’s top court to reconsider or stay its week-old decision that struck down the key feature of the 2008 Maryland DNA ...

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ALFRED, Maine — A jury on Monday ruled against a Maine woman who said a prestigious research institute removed her late husband’s brain without her consent. A jury in York County Superior Court ruled 7-2 in favor of the Stanley ...

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