A jury has awarded damages of $5.6 million to a disc jockey who was arrested and jailed in 2009 after the Prince George’s County Sheriff’s Department mistakenly entered a warrant against him into the National Criminal Information System database. The ...

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The Supreme Court has stepped into a dispute over whether lawyers can obtain personal information from driver license records to recruit clients for lawsuits, despite a federal privacy law intended to shield motor vehicle records.

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After years of destroying evidence and ignoring court orders in a copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit, Mark T. Pappas, CEO of Creative Pipe Inc., was arrested at his beachfront condo in Central America ...

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PALMER PARK — Calling himself “a joker,” a Maryland man with an arsenal of guns threatened to shoot up a business he was being fired from, and was wearing a T-shirt that said “Guns don’t kill people. I do” when ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will decide whether police can follow and detain a suspect while they wait for a search warrant, even after the suspect leaves the area that the police want to search. The high court on Monday ...

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Federal prosecutors in Baltimore on Tuesday unsealed an indictment against online sports betting site Bodog.com and its principals, charging them with conspiracy to launder money and running an illegal sports gambling business. Prosecutors shut down the website Bodog.com Monday prior ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court grappled Monday with whether qualified immunity protects police who conduct a search based on a facially valid warrant that is later invalidated because it was overbroad and misstated pertinent information. At stake is Augusta Millender’s ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court invoked visions of an all-seeing Big Brother and satellites watching us from above. Then things got personal Tuesday when the justices were told police could slap GPS devices on their cars and track their movements, ...

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PALMER PARK — Gov. Martin O’Malley says hundreds of people have been arrested as part of a warrant initiative aimed at violent crime in Prince George’s County. The governor made the announcement after attending a monthly meeting on crime-fighting efforts ...

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PALMER PARK — Maryland officials will be attending a monthly meeting on crime-fighting efforts in Prince George’s County. Gov. Martin O’Malley and Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker are scheduled to attend the meeting in Palmer Park at the county’s ...

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