The law opened the floodgates for lawsuits against churches, schools and other institutions that are accused of covering up abuse — including the state of Maryland. Since the Child Victims Act passed ...

CANYON, Texas (KVII) — A man is accused of sexually assaulting a young girl 10 times in less than three weeks. Peighton Benjamin Rodriguez, 20, is charged with 10 counts of aggravated sexual assault ...

More than 50 new crime-fighting laws will be unveiled - including a new power for cops to raid homes without warrants if technology shows there are stolen items, such as phones, inside.

But over time, the city around their bakery has changed. Once Maryland's second largest community, Cumberland was known as "The Queen City." Its crown lost its luster, though, as the area's three ...

In 2021, Maryland lawmakers passed Dignity Not Detention, which shuttered ICE facilities in the state the following year but, as a state law, cannot prohibit ICE from making arrests here. The ...

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PERRYVILLE — What began Monday morning as reports of a broken down SUV on the Millard Tydings Memorial Bridge soon became a recovery effort for a 59-year-old man on the Susquehanna River ...

Maryland’s two law schools will be among the first in the nation to adopt a new bar exam next year. The NextGen exam, designed to assess law graduates’ grasp of practical legal skills instead ...

Opponents of the proposed law change, preferring in the main not to argue directly against a proposition that commands the support of about two-thirds to three-quarters of the public, hide behind ...