The Maryland Attorney General’s Office is asking a Baltimore judge to cancel or reduce an $18.5 million award stemming from the murder of an inmate aboard a state prison bus. The hearing is scheduled Monday afternoon in Baltimore City Circuit ...

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CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. — Jurors have begun deliberations in a wrongful death lawsuit stemming from the 2007 mass killings at Virginia Tech. The jury of seven was given the case Wednesday after hearing testimony over seven days in a Christiansburg courtroom. ...

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CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. — Virginia Tech’s president on Friday defended his actions during the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, saying in court: “I tried my best.” President Charles Steger testified for two hours at a wrongful death trial brought ...

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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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CUMBERLAND — Two families will split $100,000 in a settlement of a wrongful death suit brought after two coal miners were killed in a high-wall collapse. The Times-News of Cumberland reports that the families of 51-year-old Dale Jones of Lonaconing ...

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A former Frederick County sheriff’s deputy has testified in a wrongful death case that he used a stun gun on a prone and unresponsive man because he believed he posed a credible threat. The Frederick News-Post reports that former Cpl. ...

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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A mine company has settled wrongful death lawsuits with families of all 29 victims of West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch disaster, an attorney for the estates of two miners said Tuesday. Virginia-based Alpha Natural Resources did not ...

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A Baltimore City Circuit Court jury found the state and four of five corrections officials were negligent in the death of Philip E. Parker Jr., who was killed by fellow inmate Kevin Johns during a 2005 prison bus ride from ...

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A jury in a Baltimore civil case alleging the state was negligent in the murder of an inmate aboard a state prison bus in 2005 has begun deliberations. Closing arguments were given Monday, and deliberations began Monday afternoon. Assistant Attorney ...

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A retired Maryland correctional officer says nothing seemed amiss on a prison bus where an inmate was murdered in 2005. Larry Cooper took the stand Thursday at the wrongful death trial in Baltimore. He says movement among the 36 inmates ...

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