The former Baltimore lawmaker will be sentenced in July. He formally resigned from the General Assembly on Thursday morning.

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A man’s conviction in a 1984 rape will stand despite issues raised about DNA evidence presented during the trial.

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BOSTON — James “Whitey” Bulger, the feared Boston mob boss who became one of the nation’s most-wanted fugitives, was convicted Monday in a string of 11 killings and other gangland crimes, many of them committed while he was said to ...

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FORT MEADE — Bradley Manning, the Army private arrested in the biggest leak of classified material in U.S. history, pleaded guilty Thursday to 10 charges that could send him to prison for 20 years, saying he was trying to expose ...

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NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors say one of Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff’s former controllers will plead guilty in New York to conspiracy charges in history’s largest Ponzi scheme. Prosecutors said in a letter to a judge late Tuesday that ...

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A Baltimore man who lost his West Virginia law license has accepted a plea agreement in that state after forging court documents and failing to provide legal services after taking money from his clients. ...

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Federal prosecutors say the former CEO of a fast-food franchise has pleaded guilty to embezzling $885,000 and using the money for prostitutes, phone sex and personal expenses for phone sex providers. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Baltimore says 55-year-old Mark ...

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Prosecutors say four people charged in the videotaped beating of a Virginia man on St. Patrick’s Day weekend in Baltimore have pleaded guilty in connection with the attack. Twenty-one-year-old Shatia Baldwin and 20-year-old Aaron Parsons both pleaded guilty robbery on ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A man who was paid $1,000 by his cousin to kill a dentist she was stealing from has been convicted of first-degree felony murder. Twenty-five-year-old Dante Jeter of Baltimore was also found guilty Monday by an Anne Arundel ...

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CHICAGO — Jurors have reached a verdict in the trial of the man charged with murdering three of Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson’s family members. Chicago court officials announced Friday afternoon that jurors had reached a decision after deliberating for three days. ...

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