A Montgomery County Circuit Court jury has awarded more than $2 million to the widower of a woman killed by a dump truck while she tried to navigate a construction area without an appropriate pedestrian path. Yunshu Li, 74, and ...

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ROCKVILLE — Prosecutors in Montgomery County plan to seek a sentence of life without parole if a woman charged with killing a co-worker at an upscale yoga clothing shop is convicted of first-degree murder. Brittany Norwood is awaiting trial in ...

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ROCKVILLE — Attorneys have gotten the message that it is better to dismiss foreclosure proceedings if they didn’t personally sign their names to the documents, Judge John W. Debelius III said Wednesday. “People have dismissed rather than come to a ...

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ROCKVILLE — A Monrovia woman has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for attacking her boyfriend’s pregnant daughter-in-law with a stun gun. Thirty-nine-year-old Christine DeVaux was sentenced Tuesday in Montgomery County Circuit Court in Rockville. She pleaded guilty in ...

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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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Towson U. eyes Commons space Administrators at Towson University has been talking with the owner of the nearly vacant Towson Commons about leasing space to use for classrooms and academic offices. Some local leaders have said such a conversion could rejuvenate ...

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James Liskow beat his speed camera ticket literally by a letter in the law. Liskow found what he argued was essentially a typo in the 5-year-old statute, a position that resulted in his $40 fine being thrown out Monday by ...

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BOSTON, MA — A tax preparer that arranges refund anticipation loans for its customers is not subject to state disclosure requirements applicable to credit services, the Court of Special Appeals has ruled in affirming the Montgomery County Circuit Court’s dismissal. ...

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The Maryland Workers’ Compensation Act does not bar a lawsuit by a woman who says her supervisor fired her for complaining that a co-worker grabbed her and kissed her, the state’s top court held. The Court of Appeals revived Kathleen ...

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The state’s top court in a deferred opinion has determined that signatures need not be legible on referendum petitions to count. The 5-2 Court of Appeals opinion released Tuesday came six months after its Sept. 29 per curiam ruling reversing ...

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