FREDERICK — It’s been vandalized, glorified and criticized. Now Frederick’s Board of Aldermen must decide whether a bronze bust of the U.S. Supreme Court chief justice who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision affirming slavery should be removed from the ...

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FREDERICK, Md. — Police in Maryland say two suspects vandalized a bust of the Supreme Court justice who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision reaffirming slavery. Officials with the Frederick Police Department released frames Tuesday from a surveillance video showing ...

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FREDERICK — Frederick police are investigating the vandalism of a bust honoring the Supreme Court justice who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision affirming slavery. Authorities say the bust of Roger Brooke Taney was found covered in a red paint-like ...

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A disbarred, former Frederick solo practitioner was sentenced Thursday to three-and-a-half years in prison for mail fraud and filing a false tax return. Richard A. Brennan had pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt in May. Brennan had launched several ...

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A bronze bust of the Supreme Court chief justice who wrote the inflammatory 1857 Dred Scott decision affirming slavery will likely be removed from the Frederick, Maryland, City Hall after a majority of aldermen said they support moving it to ...

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A Frederick alderwoman is renewing a call for removing a statue of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney from City Hall. Taney wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision upholding slavery. The ruling became a catalyst for the Civil ...

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FREDERICK — A Frederick committee that began as a grass-roots watchdog on biological defense laboratories is electing a new leader. The Containment Laboratory Community Advisory Committee meets Tuesday night in Frederick. The group is starting its fifth year with members ...

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Small businesses in downtown Frederick hope a new mobile loyalty app will increase store traffic by combining traditional store reward programs under a community banner. The Shop Frederick app is “meant to strengthen loyalty to an area” as opposed to ...

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A former Frederick solo attorney who was disbarred in 2009 pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt on Tuesday to mail fraud and filing a false tax return. Richard A. Brennan, who lost his law license for misusing money ...

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Producers of a movie about a POW camp for Germans that operated in Frederick during World War II are launching a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for the project. Urbane Legends Entertainment launched the  campaign for its new film, “The ...

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