DOVER, Del. — A federal appeals court is set to hear arguments in a lawsuit claiming that former Delaware Gov. Ruth Ann Minner discriminated against a state trooper because of his gender. Minner is appealing a federal judge’s refusal to ...

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LOS ANGELES — Former NBA player Javaris Crittenton was in police custody after being arrested at a Southern California airport while waiting to board a flight to Atlanta, where his lawyer said he would go to surrender in a murder ...

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WASHINGTON — A federal judge has ruled that former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld can be sued personally for damages by a former U.S. military contractor who says he was tortured during a nine-month imprisonment in Iraq. The lawsuit lays ...

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Over his career, First Mariner Bancorp CEO Edwin F. Hale Sr. could be seen as the quintessential Baltimore success story who managed to do the improbable and start his own bank with little more than grit, street smarts and two ...

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GEORGETOWN, Del. — The trial of a former Delaware pediatrician charged with abusing scores of patients over more than a decade began Tuesday with attorneys agreeing to consolidate 470 counts in the original indictment against him into a new, 24-count ...

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Former CareFirst Inc. CEO William L. Jews will receive his entire $18 million severance package after the state’s highest court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from the Maryland Insurance Administration. The Court of Appeals’ decision ends a legal ...

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Hall of Fame manager Earl Weaver is auctioning off 47 of his treasured keepsakes, including his 1966 World Series ring and jerseys received as gifts from Cal Ripken Jr. and Eddie Murray. The former Baltimore Orioles skipper will earn tens ...

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GREENBELT — A former Montgomery County police officer accused of illegally using computers to help her drug-dealing fiance has pleaded guilty in the case. Thirty-seven-year-old Delores Culmer of Silver Spring pleaded guilty Wednesday to obtaining unauthorized information from protected government ...

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DAYTON, Ohio — The former national chairman of an Atlanta-based civil rights organization has pleaded not guilty to 51 felony charges including grand theft involving a meal program for older poor people in southwest Ohio. Court officials say the Rev. ...

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WASHINGTON — A federal criminal investigation targeting John Edwards is examining how much the two-time presidential candidate knew about money used to cover up his extramarital affair and out-of-wedlock child and whether he had other practices that pushed the bounds ...

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