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The former Baltimore lawmaker will be sentenced in July. He formally resigned from the General Assembly on Thursday morning.
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Read More »Former state senator Oaks pleads guilty to fraud charges
On second hearing, rape verdict stands
A man’s conviction in a 1984 rape will stand despite issues raised about DNA evidence presented during the trial.
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Read More »‘Whitey’ Bulger guilty of gangland killings
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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Read More »GI pleads guilty in WikiLeaks case, faces 20 years
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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Read More »U.S. attorney: Madoff employee to plead guilty in N.Y.
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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Read More »Ex-lawyer pleads guilty to 10 counts in W.Va.
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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Read More »Ex-CEO of Maryland fast-food franchise pleads guilty
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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Read More »4 enter guilty pleas in St. Patrick’s beating
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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Read More »Baltimore man convicted in murder-for-hire of dentist
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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Read More »Jury reaches verdict in Hudson family slayings
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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