A Germantown man acquitted of disarming a police officer has filed a $10 million lawsuit against Montgomery County, claiming the officer used excessive force in shooting him five times during that altercation, including three times after he had blacked out.

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WASHINGTON — Forty-four senators have written to Cuba’s president to call for the release of a Maryland man imprisoned in Cuba for almost three years. The one-page letter released Tuesday is signed by 34 Democrats, nine Republicans and independent Joseph ...

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HAGERSTOWN — The Washington County Sheriff’s Office says it has obtained a warrant charging a Myersville man who was critically wounded by police after he pointed a loaded handgun at them. The agency said Thursday that the arrest warrant charges ...

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A man who reported his girlfriend missing after shooting her in the head and dumping her body in the woods has been sentenced to life plus 20 years in prison. Tyrone Webb Jr. was sentenced Monday in Baltimore City Circuit ...

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WILMINGTON, Del. — A former NASA employee has pleaded guilty to conspiracy in an alleged copyright infringement scheme led by two Chinese nationals. Thirty-eight-year-old Cosburn Wedderburn of Windsor Mill, faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty Wednesday. ...

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FREDERICK — A Poolesville man has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for driving his pickup truck into a crowd at a drag-racing track in Monrovia last June. Twenty-five-year-old Justin Wachter was sentenced Friday for one count of first-degree ...

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ORANJESTAD, Aruba — A Gaithersburg man is out of jail for the first time in nearly four months, but prosecutors hope to persuade an Aruba appeals court to put him back behind bars as early as Wednesday as a suspect ...

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ORANJESTAD, Aruba — A lawyer for a U.S. man detained in Aruba in the presumed death of his travel companion has filed an appeal for his release. Aruban attorney Michael Lopez says he asked a court to immediately release Gary ...

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