WASHINGTON — U.S. worker productivity accelerated to a still-modest 0.9 percent annual pace between April and June after dropping the previous quarter. The second-quarter gain beat economists’ expectations and reversed a decline in the January-March quarter, when the Labor Department’s ...

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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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FREDERICK — A former Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration worker has been convicted of conspiring to steal more than $87,000 from the agency’s Frederick office. Fifty-three-year-old Joann Fleishell was convicted at a bench trial Monday in Frederick. She will be sentenced ...

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A Montgomery County Circuit Court judge has awarded more than $2.8 million to the widow and two children of a construction worker who was run over by a dump truck going in reverse at a Rockville work site three years ...

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GREENBELT — A man awaiting trial in the killings of a nurse and her 20-year-old daughter was sentenced to 100 years in prison Tuesday for a violent crime spree involving dozens of armed home invasions and burglaries in Maryland. Jason ...

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A federal jury has awarded $100,000 in punitive damages to a Laurel man who was fired from his job at a major Alaska government contractor after he reported discrimination at the billion-dollar company. The jury, which decided the case against ...

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