WASHINGTON — An American Express subsidiary is suing a Maryland man who was jailed for months in Aruba in the suspected death of his traveling companion. The subsidiary, AMEX Assurance Company, seeks to void a travel insurance policy that Gary ...

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ORANJESTAD, Aruba — A U.S. businessman who has been jailed in Aruba for nearly three months as a suspect in the death of his traveling companion must remain in custody for at least 30 more days to give investigators more ...

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ORANJESTAD, Aruba — A team of cadaver dogs searched through cactus and scrub brush Tuesday for the remains of a Maryland woman who was reported missing by her travel companion during a trip to Aruba. The dogs and their handlers, ...

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A federal jury has ruled against a woman who alleged in an $18 million lawsuit that Montgomery County police officers roughed her up after responding to a call that she had tried to kill herself. Melissa Dent claimed the four ...

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OAKLAND — A Pennsylvania woman is serving a 15-year-prison sentence for robbing a bank in the western Maryland town of Grantsville. Forty-seven-year-old Amy McBride of Spring Grove, Pa., was sentenced Thursday in Garrett County Circuit Court. She was also ordered ...

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A debtor’s state tax liabilities were not discharged in her bankruptcy case, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed. In 1996, Denise Ciotti filed Maryland state income tax returns for tax years 1992 through 1996. She filed for Chapter ...

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A Baltimore woman has won a $110,000 verdict in Baltimore City Circuit Court against her car insurance company and the uninsured man who hit her vehicle. In a lawsuit, Beverly Tucker, a former social worker for Baltimore, alleged that she ...

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Two women can now be named as mothers on birth certificates without a court order in Maryland. In a letter to birth registrars on Thursday, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene states that beginning no later than March 1, ...

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