A federal jury in Greenbelt returned a $435,000 verdict to the family of a man who died after his doctor failed to properly investigate signs of an intracranial hemorrhage. Mansour Eid, a Lebanese-American lawyer who worked in Lebanon, but who ...

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William Donald Schaefer, former mayor of Baltimore and governor of Maryland, is being remembered as cheerleader who wasn’t satisfied until everyone shared his love for his city and state. “He always had the right instinct that set the right tone ...

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The Baltimore jury that will decide whether Sian James murdered Detective Brian Stevenson or acted in self-defense during a dispute over a parking place in Canton last October heard from the eyewitnesses Thursday as trial got under way in Baltimore ...

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A jury has awarded more than $9.6 million to the families of four deceased workers who were exposed to asbestos in their work in Baltimore and died of lung cancer. The Baltimore City Circuit Court jury awarded the verdict against ...

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WASHINGTON— The Supreme Court will let Mazda be sued in California courts in a case involving a woman who died while wearing a seat belt across her lap in her family’s minivan. The high court in a unanimous judgment Wednesday ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A truck spills its gravel on a state highway in Churchville, causing the death of a 7-year-old boy in 2005. A trailer becomes separated from its vehicle on the Bay Bridge in 2007, killing three people. And neither ...

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The family and estate of a man killed by a fellow patient last March at Baltimore Behavioral Health Systems Inc. have filed a $2 million lawsuit against the facility, claiming it allowed the assailant to return without adequate security after ...

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Legislative budget analysts are recommending the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene double the price of birth and death certificates from $12 to $24 a piece as a way to raise $7.9 million for fiscal 2012. Maryland charges $12 for ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal judge has tossed a lawsuit that blamed the security company formerly known as Blackwater for the deaths of four contractors killed in a grisly 2004 ambush on the restive streets of Iraq. U.S. District Judge ...

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Fred Kardon, a former top editor of The Maryland Daily Record during a time of great change at the paper and in the news industry, died Sunday in South Carolina. He was 70. Kardon’s time at The Daily Record stretched ...

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