A Howard County jury awarded $150,000 — including $37,000 in punitive damages — to a tenant whose landlord repeatedly failed to address mold contamination for nearly a year. The jury found Port Capital Village Limited Partnership liable for breach of ...

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A Howard County jury awarded a woman nearly $800,000 last week for spinal injuries she sustained in a 2015 crash that left her with chronic pain. Ryan Primrose, now 34, was the passenger in a van operated by CareMed Transportation ...

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A judge says he won't drop hate-crime related charges against teens who argued the racial slurs and swastikas found at a Maryland high school were constitutionally protected free speech.

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Judge William V. Tucker has been named administrative judge of the Howard County Circuit Court.

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Howard County’s historic circuit courthouse lacks reliable Internet and parking for large jury pools. Some services are not housed in the building due to space concerns. The county was approved for a sixth circuit court judge three years ago but ...

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County Executive Alan H. Kittleman called building the new courthouse a "critical" infrastructure project.

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A second, potential class-action lawsuit has been filed against the owner of the Rams Head Tavern in Savage Mill for allegedly secretly videotaping women in the restroom.

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ELLICOTT CITY — A murder trial starts this week in Howard County for a man charged in the 1991 death of his wife. Robert Arnold Jarrett, Jr. was arrested last year and charged with first-degree murder after human remains were ...

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The campaign flier arrived in mailboxes with an unofficial sticky note and an unauthorized message: “First And Only Jewish Judge On Our Circuit Court. Vote On April 3rd.” The message was stamped onto a yellow Post-It note and stuck between ...

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A Columbia-area church has been awarded more than $1 million in damages against a surety bond holder that refused to fulfill its contractual obligation after the general contractor walked off the construction job. A Howard County Circuit Court judge rejected ...

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