A Baltimore police officer has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in a towing company extortion scheme. A statement from the Maryland U.S. attorney’s office says 37-seven-year-old Samuel Ocasio of Edgewood was sentenced Friday by U.S. ...

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A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Universal Elections and its owner, Julius Henson, to pay a total of $1 million to the state for violating federal law by sending recorded telephone messages to more than 112,000 Democrats in Baltimore city ...

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A Maryland sprinter with dreams of world-class glory and sneaker endorsements lost a $1.6 million lawsuit against the drug company whose supplement he blames for a career-ending six-month suspension from competitive racing. Philippe H. DeRosier Jr.’s evidence of lost income ...

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Two former U.S. Postal Service workers were sentenced in Maryland’s two federal courts last week for stealing or destroying mail. Warren Christopher Bradford, 42, of Upper Marlboro, was sentenced to one year in prison and three years of supervised release ...

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A federal judge in Baltimore has applied Virginia law in dismissing strict-liability claims against the maker of forceps that broke inside an Anne Arundel County woman undergoing a hysterectomy. A piece of the forceps remained in Kimberly E. Williams’ pelvis ...

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A federal judge in Baltimore heard arguments Wednesday on a motion to end a lawsuit accusing Maryland of second-class treatment of its historically black colleges and universities. Judge Catherine C. Blake said she would rule as soon as possible. At ...

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A federal court has dismissed a whistleblower suit brought by a captain in the Maryland Air National Guard against fellow pilots who allegedly falsified flight training records to bump up their pay. The U.S. District Court in Baltimore on Wednesday ...

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A Westminster businessman who conspired to steal more than $1 million from the Maryland Legal Aid Bureau over the course of a decade has been sentenced to 15 months in prison. Wendell “Sonny” Jackson, 60, who was sentenced Friday by ...

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