A Frederick County jury awarded approximately $17 million Tuesday to the families of two helicopter pilots killed in a crash near the Frederick Municipal Airport in 2014. Jurors, following three days of deliberation and a two-week trial, awarded approximately $12 ...

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Judge Julie R. Stevenson Solt has been named administrative judge of the Frederick County Circuit Court. Solt will take over March 1 and succeeds Judge G. Edward Dwyer Jr., who is retiring after nearly 31 years on the bench, including ...

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ANNAPOLIS — The former dietary manager of a Maryland juvenile detention center has pleaded guilty to using a state-issued credit card to buy tons of frozen crab legs and shrimp that were resold to local restaurants. Attorney General Doug Gansler ...

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FREDERICK — The Frederick News-Post is alleging in a lawsuit that Frederick Community College is illegally withholding information about the ouster of the school’s president. The newspaper reports that it filed the claim Monday in Frederick County Circuit Court. It ...

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FREDERICK — A Thurmont boy who was injured by a giant splinter on a big wooden slide has reached a $60,000 settlement with the Rocky Ridge church that owns the attraction. Court records show that the settlement was approved Friday ...

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FREDERICK — A lawsuit against Frederick County over a proposed rezoning that opponents say will lead to higher taxes, sprawl and environmental harm has been dismissed. But an attorney for the environmental groups and residents who filed the lawsuit said ...

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An internal Justice Department report on flaws in forensic-evidence gathering by the FBI might provide the final chance for a convicted Maryland double-murderer who has served 30 years of a double-life sentence to argue for his innocence. John Norman Huffington’s ...

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A Frederick County Circuit Court jury has awarded $620,000 to a Taneytown couple whose Labrador retriever was shot by sheriff’s deputies. While Roger and Sandra Jenkins rushed to the vet with their severely wounded dog, who survived, the two deputies ...

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FREDERICK — A former Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration worker has been convicted of conspiring to steal more than $87,000 from the agency’s Frederick office. Fifty-three-year-old Joann Fleishell was convicted at a bench trial Monday in Frederick. She will be sentenced ...

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FREDERICK — A Thurmont boy who was impaled by a giant splinter on a wooden slide is suing the Frederick County church that owns the structure. Christian Griffith’s father Nolan filed the complaint Friday in Frederick County Circuit Court. It ...

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