Maryland’s appellate judges and attorneys who appear before them have formed a group to enhance civility on the bench and bar, as well as mentor young lawyers.
The Maryland Court of Appeals is among the nation’s most diverse state supreme courts in terms of the percentage of minority and female judges, a report found.
The Rev. Dr. Bowyer Gates Freeman, the pastor of a Forest Park congregation and a past Howard County NAACP president, died of a blood clot Jan. 3 at Howard County General Hospital. The Columbia resident was 61.
Rev. Dr. Bowyer Gates Freeman, the pastor of a Forest Park congregation and a past Howard County NAACP president, died of a blood clot Jan. 3 at Howard County General Hospital. The Columbia resident was 61.
Foray into Friday. 1. The world’s largest shrimp is on display at the Old Spanish Fort Museum in Pascagoula. 2. Barq’s Root Beer was invented in Biloxi in 1898 by Edward Adolf Barq, Sr. 3. Mrs. Mamie Thomas was the first female rural mail carrier in the United States, using a buggy to deliver mail to the area southeast of Vicksburg in 1914. 4. Still have your first teddy bear? Thank Theodore Roosevelt. On a hunting expedition in 1902 in Sharkey County, President Roosevelt refused to shoot a captured bear, an act which resulted in the creation of the teddy bear. 5. In 1929, H.T. Merrill from Iuka performed the world’s first round trip trans-oceanic flight.