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The Daily Record has announced the honorees of its 2019 Influential Marylanders awards. The Influential Marylander award recognizes those who are leaving a mark on the community throughout the state. Honorees were selected by the editors of The Daily Record for their contributions in their respective fields and their leadership in Maryland. Honorees were selected in ...

Nolle prosequi is a Latin phrase which means “to no longer prosecute” or “unwilling to pursue.” Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby has recently announced the state’s attorney’s office will no longer prosecute individuals arrested for possession of marijuana in Baltimore. In making her announcement, Mosby indicated that marijuana possession arrests will not be prosecuted, ...

ANNAPOLIS —  Bolstered by successes last year, supporters of stricter gun laws returned to the State House to lobby lawmakers for additional measures they said will make Maryland residents safer from gun violence. Democratic lawmakers, backed by supporters who are part of Mom’s Demand Action, said they will push for more stringent gun laws in Maryland. ...

The 592-unit garden style Montgomery White Oak Apartments in Silver Spring sold for $86.75 million to a partnership that includes a local firm. An ownership group consisting of Rockville-based The Donaldson Group, Declaration Capital and DRA Advisors, both based in New York, purchased the property. The partners intend to renovate the property, located on 28 ...

Maryland lawmakers will look to tighten regulations on for-profit colleges and career schools, hoping to protect students from falling into a student loan debt hole. Legislation introduced Thursday by Sen. Paul Pinsky, D-Prince George’s, would limit how much of a student’s education could be paid for with loans and require schools to make disclosures about ...

The Maryland Attorney General’s office has reached a settlement with LPL Financial LLC, requiring the firm to repurchase certain securities and pay civil penalties, the office announced Thursday. The settlement stems from a multistate investigation into LPL’s failure to establish and maintain reasonable policies and procedures to prevent the sale of unregistered, non-exempt securities by ...

A retired Baltimore Police Department detective is asking a federal appeals court to vacate a $15 million verdict awarded to a wrongfully incarcerated man who claimed the detective ignored and withheld exculpatory evidence. Sabein Burgess spent nearly two decades in prison after being convicted in 1995 of killing his girlfriend, Michelle Dyson. He was sentenced to ...

ANNAPOLIS — Legislation that would require 150 minutes of physical activity, including 90 minutes of physical education, a week for elementary school students in Maryland was heard by the House Ways and Means committee on Thursday. The Student Health and Fitness Act would require schools to create a physical leadership activity team to fill the ...

Semmes, Bowen & Semmes has an immediate opening for an associate with experience in Workers' Compensation law and/or Insurance Defense Liability law.

The longest-serving leader of the Maryland Senate vowed Thursday to continue to serve as president even as he faces one his toughest challenges. Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. announced Thursday morning that he is being treated for prostate cancer and will undergo chemotherapy during the session. “It’s a recent diagnosis,” Miller told the ...

After a rocky 2018 for city retail, particularly restaurants, one Baltimore building is nearly 100 percent occupied after adding five new tenants, including three eateries. The historic 205,865-square-foot Can Co. property at 2400 Boston Street in Canton named a handful of new tenants at the asset. They include The Original Pancake House, RegionAle and Tropical ...

A Catonsville woman is suing her senior home community for failing to detect a heavy bedbug infestation in her unit that caused her to sustain more than 100 bites. The amended complaint filed Thursday also alleges Charlestown Community, Inc. and Erickson Living Management, LLC then tried to charge her $20,000 to treat the infestation. “It ...

The Emerging Technology Center announced the latest cohort for its AccelerateBaltimore tech startup accelerator, for the first time focusing the accelerator program around a book. Six startup companies will join AccelerateBaltimore’s eighth cohort, each receiving up to $25,000 in seed funding over the course of the 13-week program run by Deb Tillet, president of the ...

JoAnn Kubica, the vice president of compliance and privacy officer for the Kennedy Krieger Institute, joined the board of directors with Unified Community Connections, a nonprofit agency serving children and adults with disabilities throughout Maryland. Kubica has 22 years of medical coding and compliance experience in the health care industry and also facilitates health care ...

Renee B. Sullivan has joined Council Baradel as an associate in its estate planning practice group. Sullivan focuses her practice on estate planning and estate administration. She drafts estate planning documents such as wills, trusts, advance medical directives and financial powers of attorney. She also helps clients navigate the estate administration process, so they can ...

The American Bar Association announced Thursday it is offering five Continuing Legal Education programs free of charge to all lawyers and other professionals affected by the shutdown of the federal government. The CLE programs focus on a range of legal issues such as ethics, disaster response and cybersecurity. Individuals can access the discount code to ...

Roland Foods LLC, a portfolio company of Vestar Capital Partners, closed the acquisition of Gaithersburg-based Albert Uster Imports Inc., officials announced Thursday. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. AUI has been an importer of specialty pastry, bakery and confectionary products for professional chefs and bakers for 50 years. AUI sources products from more than ...

A group of class-action law firms Thursday filed the largest-to-date lawsuit over Marriott International Inc.’s recent admission that millions of customers’ private data was accessed by hackers. The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, includes 176 plaintiffs from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, according to a news ...