The owner of an Owings Mills-based mail marketer has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for forging forms that allowed him to send more than $1.6 million in bulk mail without paying postage.

SALIDA - A $2.4 million settlement was approved Wednesday by a U.S. District Court judge, ending a civil case which claims John Hightower, owner of Consumer Insurance Group Inc., underpaid postage on ...