WALDORF – Fifteen people have been killed on U
Maryland
Appeals Court Overturns Award for Laid-Off Tour Conductor
WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court Friday reversed a jury’s decision awarding more than $10,000 in damages to a former sight-seeing tour conductor
Some Say Death Penalty Is Biased Against Blacks
ANNAPOLIS – Death row inmate Tyrone Delano Gilliam, who faces execution as early as Monday, has one thing in common with nine of the other 14 prisoners sentenced to death in Maryland – he is a black man who killed a white person
Marylanders Claiming Money They Didn’t Know They Were Owed
ANNAPOLIS – A 47-year-old Silver Spring man received a check for $145 from a state pension fund
Workers Who Spoke Out on Contracting Problems Can Sue Bosses
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that two Baltimore City workers who spoke out against improper contracting in the city’s Department of Public Works could sue the bosses who demoted them
EDS: EMBARGOED UNTIL SATURDAY, NOV. 14, AT NOON.
COLLEGE PARK – A recent survey of Maryland public school children could calm parents who worry the drug Ritalin is being over-prescribed
Increase in Charity Pitches Brings Increase in Charity Scams
WASHINGTON – Of the $8 billion a year that Marylanders donate to charity, they lose at least $100 million to telemarketing fraud, state officials estimate
Death Row Inmate Denounces Justice System, Says Didn’t Pull Trigger
BALTIMORE – Facing execution next week, convicted murderer Tyrone Delano Gilliam said he does not believe he pulled the trigger in the December 1988 murder of a Baltimore County hardware clerk and added he is “frustrated” with a justice system that is “inundated with evil