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A county jury this week ruled Del. Tony McConkey in 2006 intentionally violated a state law designed to protect homeowners in foreclosure.

The jury, however, ordered the Severna Park Republican to pay his victim only about $11,000 in damages - far less than the $1.5 million Teresa Milligan's attorneys sought this week during a three-day trial.

"It's been an awful three years and I couldn't have hoped for a better verdict," McConkey said Wednesday outside the county Circuit Court in Annapolis. "I feel vindicated."

Mike Morin, one of...