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Two women who work for a State Farm insurance agent in Randallstown sued him and his corporate employer Tuesday, saying he repeatedly subjected them to sexual harassment, vile insults and a hostile work environment. Kristi Mitchell and Veronica Cobb are seeking at least $4 million in punitive damages from the agent, Obie Sorrell, and State Farm Annuity and Life Insurance Co., a Fortune 500 company based in Bloomington, Ill., that has 17,000 agents and 68,000 employees. Mitchell has been an office manager for State Farm since February 2002, and Cobb was hired in May as a customer-service manager.

A group of journalists and freedom of information campaigners are suing in federal court in Baltimore to get greater access to proceedings in the military trial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning who is accused of leaking thousands of classified documents. The suit was brought by Julian Assange, the organizer behind WikiLeaks, Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald, The Nation opinion journal and other organizations. It asks for access to filings in the case, orders of the court and transcripts or audio recordings of the proceedings.

On Tuesday, June 9, 2009, SUE KLINGENBERG of Hampstead. Sue is survived by her husband of 52 years, Bob. In addition she is survived by her sister Victoria Auth of OH; brother Carroll Hynes of NC; sons and daughters-in-law Rob and Jane Klingenberg of VA, Larry and Robin Klingenberg of SC, Mike and Teri Klingenberg of Hampstead, daughter and son-in-law Trish and Rick Cummings of PA; daughter Susan Klingenberg of Hampstead; seven grandchildren; and three...

Six Baltimore community groups filed an $8 million lawsuit Tuesday against a Texas man whose companies own dozens of properties in the city, alleging that he failed to improve rundown homes after purchasing them at tax sales and allowed them to become a danger. "The lawsuit challenges the practice of purchasing vacant properties at tax sale and leaving them for dead with unaddressed city code violations," said Kristine Dunkerton, executive director of the Community Law Center Inc., a nonprofit based in Baltimore that represents the community associations.

The Maryland Department of the Environment says it plans to sue Mirant Mid-Atlantic and Mirant Maryland Ash Management over disposal of fly ash at its Brandywine site. MDE Secretary Shari Wilson said in a statement Friday that Mirant discharges pollutants from leachate into groundwater without a permit. New state regulations took effect in December 2008, but MDE says it has not been able to reach agreement with Mirant on compliance schedules. The department says it will file notice under the Clean Water Act alleging water pollution violations.

On June 18, 2003, WINNIE SUE TROIANO (nee Chappell), beloved wife of the late Frank Anthony Troiano, devoted mother of Linda J. DeKowzan and Patricia T. Tanczyn and the late Donna Sue Troiano. Loving mother-in-law Paul E. DeKowzan and Michael P. Tanczyn. Loving grandmother of Brian P. DeKowzan and Christopher M. and Emily P. TanczynThe family will receive friends at the family owned Ruck Towson Funeral Home, Inc., 1050 York Rd. (beltway exit 26A) on Saturday and Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated in St. Joseph Church, 101 Church Lane, Texas, MD. 21030 on Monday at 10:30 A.M. Interment Baltimore National Cemetery, 5501 Frederick Avenue, Catonsville, MD. Memorial contributions to Meals on Wheels of Central MD, Inc., 515 S. Haven St., Baltimore, MD 21224 will beappreciated.

On March 21, 2003, SUE (Sarah) COLLINS; beloved wife of Edwin C. Collins; loving mother of Kathleen Collins and Edwin C. Collins Jr.; cherished grandmother of Cristina Collins. A Memorial Service will be held Tuesday 11:30 A.M. at the Chapel of the Angels Charlestown Retirement Community. In lieu of flowers, expressions of sympathy may be made to the Charlestown Benevolent Fund, 715 Maiden Choice Lane, Catonsville, MD 21228.

On November 3, 2003, SUE (ASSUNTA), beloved daughter of the late Angelo and Concetta Pizza; loving sister of Nellie Chiaparelli and the late Mary Heyman, Messrs. Anthony, Louis, Joseph, Frank, Paul and Charles Pizza. Also survived by many nieces and nephews. Friends may call at the family owned JOSEPH N. ZANNINO JR. FUNERAL HOME, 263 S. Conkling Street (at Gough) on Tuesday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Mass of Christian Burial at Church of St. Leo the Great on Wednesday at 10 A.M. Interment Gardens of Faith Cemetery.

Sue Anne Grossman, 91, ran children's wear store Sue Anne Grossman, a Women's Army Corps veteran and retired owner of a children's wear store, died in her sleep Sunday at a nursing home in Delray, Fla. She was 91. Miss Grossman was born and raised in Baltimore, and later lived in Oxon Hill. After her 1928 graduation from Western High School, she worked as a bookkeeper at the Louis Mazor and Son furniture store, then on East Baltimore Street. During the early part of World War II, she was a neighborhood air raid warden.

Betty Sue White Snier A Memorial Service will be held on Tuesday, December 29, 2009 at 11:00 A.M. at the Orr Auditorium at Willow Valley Manor, 211 Willow Valley Square, Lancaster, PA 17602 with the Rev. Charles A. Cummings officiating. Friends may greet the family following the service. Interment in the Hillcrest Cemetery, Conway, SC. In lieu of flowers contributions in Mrs. Snier's memory may be made to the Alzheimer's Disease Association, 3544 North Progress Avenue, Suite 205, Harrisburg, PA 17110-9638.

Administrative law judges who evaluate disability claims for the Social Security Administration want a federal court to ease a workload that they say makes errors more likely - the latest in a series of challenges confronting the Woodlawn-based agency. In a federal lawsuit filed this month, 1,400 judges said the agency's expectation that they decide as many as 700 claims per year is causing them to rush evaluations and possibly approve claims that should be denied, at a potential cost of millions of taxpayer dollars.

Hide your kids, hide your wives. There's an asteroid/comet/meter coming to Lima, according to Brittany. And we know how reliable she is. So, just in case the world comes to an end, Mr. Schu tells the glee club kids they need to say everything they need to say to the people they love. And so, we have this week's lesson: Last Chance. Meanwhile, Ryder is infatuated with a girl he "met" online. Manti Te'o, anyone? Except Ryder thinks he's found Katie, so he serenades her with Elton John.

A fifth man has filed a lawsuit against Kevin Clash, the former voice of Elmo on "Sesame Street," making sex abuse allegations similar to those of four other plaintiffs. Kevin Kiadii, now 25, of New York, alleges that he was 16 when he and Clash engaged in sexual contact after meeting on a gay phone chat line. According to the lawsuit, Clash initiated contact with Kiadii on the chat line in 2004, invited him to his New York apartment and sent a luxury car service to pick Kiadii up in Brooklyn.

A group of residents has sued Baltimore County and the local school board over plans to build a 700-seat elementary school at the Mays Chapel Park, saying officials skirted county real estate laws. The lawsuit, filed this month in Baltimore County Circuit Court, asks a judge to declare that a County Council resolution authorizing the county and school board to exchange land for the school site was illegal. The county owned 10 acres of the site, while the school system owned the other 10 acres.

The family of longtime Orioles umpires attendant Ernie Tyler is suing a Baltimore nursing home, claiming that a doctor at the facility cut off life-sustaining care to Tyler without authorization. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Baltimore Circuit Court, alleges that a day after Tyler checked into Genesis ElderCare Long Green Center in February 2011, his attending physician, Kenneth Lindyberg, "terminated necessary medical care, including antibiotics, blood products, medical tests, and medications without Mr. Tyler's permission and without the knowledge or permission of his family.

A Morgan State University student who was partially blinded with a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire alleges in a recently filed lawsuit that the school ignored warning signs of Alexander Kinyua's potential for violence. Joshua Ceasar of New Jersey was struck by Kinyua, who is accused of killing a family friend before eating some of his body parts in Harford County. Kinyua pleaded guilty but not criminally responsible in December in the attack on Ceasar. "There were numerous warning signs that Kinyua was a danger to the community, and Morgan State failed to act to protect anyone on campus," said Ceasar's attorney, Steven D. Silverman.

Sue S. McWilliams, retired chief financial officer of Maxalea Nurseries Inc., died Friday of breast cancer at her Idlewylde home. She was 62. Mrs. McWilliams, who had battled breast cancer for seven years, lived at Sumac, her home on the grounds of the 20-acre Idlewylde nursery established by her in-laws, James and Marion McWilliams, in 1929. Because sumac was a prolific plant on their property, she and her husband named their home after the plant, as well as their 43-foot, cream-colored trawler in which they enjoyed sailing.

What was Sue thinking? That's what the Yak asked when he visited Chicago's Field Museum recently to see the famous Tyrannosaurus rex.The museum bought the world's largest, most complete T-rex fossil for $8.4 million in 1997. Workers are now cleaning and repairing Sue's bones, getting her ready to go on display in March 2000.The hot news is that museum paleontologists, or fossil scientists, have a 3D image of Sue's brain.The real brain decomposed 67 million years ago, of course, along with the rest of Sue's soft tissue.

Northwestern High alumni have gone to court to try to stop the Baltimore school from closing, as civil rights activists say the plan is discriminatory because shuttering the institution would disproportionately affect low-income, minority students. The alumni association filed a lawsuit seeking an injunction in Baltimore City Circuit Court last week, arguing that the Baltimore school system's 10-year facilities plan was based on inaccurate and outdated information and would adversely affect hundreds of students from Northwest Baltimore.

Under Armour is suing Nike, alleging that its chief competitor is illegally using a version of the Baltimore sports apparel company's new primary slogan, "I Will. " The suit, which the company said it filed Thursday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, seeks to force Nike to stop using any form of that phrase and asks for unspecified punitive damages for trademark infringement and unfair competition. According to a copy of the suit provided by Under Armour, the complaint shows several instances of ads Nike placed on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter beginning late last year using slogans that all begin with "I will.