WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal over whether the family of a man allegedly killed by former Boston mob boss and FBI informant James “Whitey” Bulger should get millions of dollars from the government. The high court ...

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PHILADELPHIA — A teen from Pakistan with a once-bright future in the U.S. pleaded guilty Friday to terrorism charges for helping an American woman dubbed “Jihad Jane” support an Irish terror cell planning to wage a Muslim holy war in ...

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An internal Justice Department report on flaws in forensic-evidence gathering by the FBI might provide the final chance for a convicted Maryland double-murderer who has served 30 years of a double-life sentence to argue for his innocence. John Norman Huffington’s ...

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GREENBELT — A former U.S. Army soldier accused of trying to provide support to a terrorist organization in Somalia after he left the military has pleaded not guilty. Maryland resident Craig Baxam appeared in federal court in Greenbelt on Friday. ...

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INDIANAPOLIS — Investigators are trying to identify hundreds of potential victims whose images were found on the computer of an Indiana man charged with coercing two teenage boys into performing sex acts for him via webcam by threatening to post ...

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WASHINGTON — A former government space scientist was sentenced Wednesday to 13 years in prison after admitting he tried to sell space and defense secrets to Israel in what turned out to be an FBI sting operation. Appearing in federal ...

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SANFORD, Fla. — An unarmed black teenager shot to death by a neighborhood watch captain told his girlfriend moments before he was killed that he was being followed, a lawyer said Tuesday as federal and state prosecutors announced they would ...

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GREENBELT — Former Prince George’s County Council member Leslie Johnson is about to begin serving a year and a day in prison for her role in obstructing an investigation into a corruption scheme involving her husband. Johnson is scheduled to ...

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Last week, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland lobbed the first volley against one of the biggest players in the online sports betting world when it seized the Bodog.com website and charged four of the company’s officers ...

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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Virginia man charged with plotting a suicide bombing inside the U.S. Capitol waived his rights Wednesday to preliminary and detention hearings. Amine El Khalifi, of Alexandria was arrested Friday and charged with attempting to use a ...

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