A federal court jury has awarded more than $82,000 to an electrician injured in a Rockville electrical explosion, even though the jurors found his own negligence had contributed to the incident and his injuries. The jurors, in ruling for Lawrence ...

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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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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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Opening arguments begin Wednesday in the trial of a former GlaxoSmithKline attorney on charges of obstructing a U.S. Food and Drug Administration probe into her company’s marketing of the anti-depressant Wellbutrin SR as a weight-loss drug, a use not approved ...

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A federal jury in Greenbelt has returned a $3 million verdict partially in favor of a Washington, D.C., lawyer who accused Montgomery County police officers of unlawfully arresting him in his home and taking away his young daughter. On Thursday, ...

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A federal jury has ruled against a woman who alleged in an $18 million lawsuit that Montgomery County police officers roughed her up after responding to a call that she had tried to kill herself. Melissa Dent claimed the four ...

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GREENBELT — The case of a prominent Washington, D.C., lawyer who alleges that Montgomery County police officers unlawfully arrested him and took away his young daughter began in Greenbelt on Wednesday. William E. Wallace III, a litigation partner with Clifford ...

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GREENBELT — Prince George’s County Councilwoman Leslie Johnson has been charged with destroying a $100,000 check from a developer after FBI agents showed up at her house last fall. Federal prosecutors in Maryland filed a criminal information on Friday charging ...

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GREENBELT — Authorities say five Washington area residents have been indicted in a bank fraud conspiracy that prosecutors say netted them at least $320,000. An indictment filed in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt says the defendants created counterfeit checks and ...

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A federal judge in Greenbelt has blocked Montgomery County from enforcing one part of a sign requirement for pro-life pregnancy counseling centers while a challenge to the law is being litigated. Under Judge Deborah K. Chasanow’s ruling, the county can ...

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