OAKLAND — A Garrett County man has been sentenced to life without parole for fatally stabbing a friend in an apparent dispute over the victim’s girlfriend. Forty-seven-year-old Jeffrey Minnick was sentenced Friday for the first-degree murder of 24-year-old Timothy Lax ...

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DOVER, Del. — Federal public defenders trying to halt the execution of convicted Delaware killer Shannon Johnson claimed in court papers Thursday that there is overwhelming evidence that he is mentally retarded and can’t be executed. The public defenders made ...

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A Maine lawyer is convinced a former client is a serial killer and is now trying to link him to a series of murders. Eric B. Cote represented Rory Holland from 2008 to 2009 in a real estate partition action. After ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Depending on who was talking, the prosecution’s star witness in the death penalty case against Lee E. Stephens was either a courageous observer who faced the wrath of his fellow inmates or a brazen gangster who only came ...

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DOVER, Del. — The state Board of Pardons on Thursday rejected a commutation request from a killer who kidnapped and robbed a man, then tied him to a tree and left him to die. James Waller was sentenced to life ...

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CUMBERLAND — Testimony has begun in the first-degree murder trial in Cumberland of a state prison inmate charged with strangling the killer of two adolescent girls. Prosecutors began calling witnesses after a jury was chosen Tuesday morning. Thirty-six-year-old Christopher White ...

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