Former state delegate Brett R. Wilson recently took the bench as Washington County’s newest circuit court judge, but his appointment last month did not follow the normal process for filling vacancies. Wilson was one of four applicants to fill the ...

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WILLIAMSPORT — A county circuit court in Maryland sentenced a veteran who burned his parents’ house down to 18 months in jail and recommended participation in an alternative program to incarceration. The Herald Mail reports 58-year-old David Edward Carr pleaded ...

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A cancer victim’s failure to file a medical malpractice suit within the statute of limitations does not bar her family from suing the doctor, Maryland’s top court unanimously ruled Friday.

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HAGERSTOWN — A Hagerstown woman has pleaded guilty to stabbing her boyfriend in the back with a plastic rattail comb. Forty-nine-year-old Saundra Hewlett pleaded guilty Tuesday in Washington County Circuit Court to reckless endangerment and received a suspended four-year sentence. ...

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A man who the state’s top court said should be removed from the sex offender registry has not yet been taken off the list, according to a motion filed in Washington County Circuit Court.

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ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley has appointed five judges. The governor on Thursday announced that Judge Dana Moylan Wright has been appointed to Washington County Circuit Court. Wright has served on the Washington County District Court bench since 2009. John ...

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HAGERSTOWN — A Hagerstown man is going to prison for murdering his roommate. The Herald-Mail reports that 54-year-old Darrell Hicks was sentenced Thursday in Washington County Circuit Court to 30 years in prison. Hicks was convicted in April of second-degree ...

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A Washington County jury has backed a teenage horse farm worker’s argument that when she was injured on the job, she was an employee and not a contract worker.

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HAGERSTOWN — The field of applicants for a vacancy on the Washington County Circuit Court has been narrowed down to five. The state Judicial Nominating Commission said this week that the five nominees are: District Court Judge Dana Moylan Wright, ...

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HAGERSTOWN — An acknowledged pornography addict convicted of four sexual assaults in two states pleaded guilty Tuesday to a fifth — the 1998 rape of a woman whose hands were bound with duct tape by a man hiding in her ...

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