On any given day in the United States, at least 137,000 men and women sit behind bars on simple drug possession charges, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch. Nearly two-thirds ...

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ELKTON  — Maryland prosecutors are dropping drug charges against a Port Deposit man accused of raping and killing a 10-year-old Cecil County girl. Cecil County State’s Attorney Ellis Rollins told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he has instructed his ...

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IOWA CITY, Iowa — A fugitive doctor charged in the nation’s largest prosecution of Internet pharmacies is getting off in part because there’s just too much evidence in his case: more than 400,000 documents and two terabytes of electronic data ...

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A Baltimore lawyer was arrested in West Virginia last week and charged with drug possession and intent to distribute after police allegedly found narcotics and paraphernalia in his car. Noah Thomas Lowery-Clugston, 33, was arrested last Monday in Berkeley County ...

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An actress who played a Baltimore drug gang assassin in HBO’s “The Wire” has pleaded guilty in a drug conspiracy case. Thirty-one-year-old Felicia “Snoop” Pearson entered the plea to conspiracy to distribute heroin Monday, a day before her trial was ...

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If its unanimous decision Wednesday is any indication, Maryland’s top court had little doubt that Ramon Lopez deserves a new trial because the judge at his trial unconstitutionally allowed him to waive his right to counsel and defend himself on ...

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