Prince thought he was taking a common painkiller and probably did not know a counterfeit pill he ingested contained fentanyl, a Minnesota prosecutor said Thursday as he announced that no charges would be filed in the musician's death.

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Southwest Airlines Co. is stepping up engine inspections as the discount carrier known for its quirky cheerfulness and strong safety record grapples with its first accident to result in a passenger’s death. Ultrasonic examinations of the fan blades on its ...

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Prince George’s County civil rights attorney Jimmy A. Bell died March 25 in his Upper Marlboro home of natural causes. He was 48. A native of California and a graduate of the American University Washington College of Law, Bell, represented ...

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CAPITOL HEIGHTS — Officials say a man struck and killed by a Metro train in Maryland may have fallen from the platform. It happened about 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Capitol Heights station. Metro spokesman Dan Stessel says surveillance video ...

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ROCKVILLE — An Iraq war veteran has pleaded guilty to his role in the death of his 3-year-old son months after he and his wife adopted the boy from South Korea. Thirty-eight-year-old Brian O’Callaghan of Damascus pleaded guilty Monday to ...

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ANNAPOLIS— Authorities have concluded that a 13-year-old Maryland boy who starred in his family’s popular YouTube show died of a heart condition that commonly causes cardiac arrest in young people. The Capital of Annapolis quotes the Office of the Chief ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Police say a 13-year-old Maryland boy known for appearing in his family’s video blog and his own YouTube posts about playing the game Minecraft died after a medical emergency. Anne Arundel County Police said Monday that Caleb LeBlanc ...

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CUMBERLAND — Maryland’s prison agency says state police are investigating the death of an inmate at the maximum-security Western Correctional Institution near Cumberland as a possible homicide. The Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services says the 30-year-old inmate was ...

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A Baltimore man has been charged with murder and child abuse after police say he passed out from drinking on Father’s Day and left his 2-year-old daughter strapped in a car seat for more than 16 hours in 89-degree heat, ...

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(AP) The attorney representing a Maryland man charged in the shooting death of a man whose body was found in a burned-out car in south-central Pennsylvania says his client maintains that he acted in self-defense. Eighteen-year-old Jonta Bishop of Hagerstown ...

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