JACKSON, Miss. — A Maryland telemarketer has been fined $490,000 for reportedly violating Mississippi’s no-call law. Northern District Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley says Joel Katz and Katz’ Fast To Market Corp. of Baltimore failed to register and buy the ...

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Maryland police agencies have issued thousands of tickets to drivers for using hand-held cellphones behind the wheel in the year since a ban took effect. Records from more than 70 police agencies in the state that participate in the Electronic ...

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WASHINGTON — The nation’s largest federal employee union says forcing some federal employees to work without pay during a government shutdown violates the U.S. Constitution. The American Federation of Government Employees has filed a lawsuit seeking an injunction to prevent ...

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A detective undermined a convicted murderer’s Miranda rights by saying an interrogation was “between you and me, bud,” the Court of Appeals held Monday in granting a new trial to a Baltimore County man. Detective Steve Schrott used the phrase ...

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WASHINGTON — A federal criminal investigation targeting John Edwards is examining how much the two-time presidential candidate knew about money used to cover up his extramarital affair and out-of-wedlock child and whether he had other practices that pushed the bounds ...

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Alison L. Asti’s yellow-and-black Election Day flier was “likely to mislead” Anne Arundel County voters and therefore violated a standard of conduct that calls for “truthfulness and dignity” in judicial campaigns, an oversight panel said in an opinion released Thursday. ...

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Maryland’s top court has unanimously disbarred an attorney who failed to keep his clients informed about the status of their personal-injury cases and to cooperate with Bar Counsel’s investigation of his lack of diligence. David E. Fox, in a one ...

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A small group of Millers Island residents came to Baltimore County Circuit Court on Tuesday hoping that a local restaurant would be forced to stop its live music and karaoke, ending a source of a years-long annoyance. Instead, Judge Robert ...

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