February 15, 2012 Comments Off on Plea deal reached in homeless-camp deaths
OAKLAND, Md. — A registered sex offender who apparently disliked his young buddy’s girlfriend was convicted in a plea deal Wednesday of fatally stabbing them both in a hobo camp in the western Maryland town of Oakland. Jeffrey C. Minnick, ...
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Read More »January 8, 2012 Comments Off on Blackwater contractors’ suit settled, dismissed by 4th Circuit
RALEIGH, N.C. — Days after the last U.S. troops left Iraq, a federal appeals court ended a lawsuit over an episode that produced one of the more disturbing images of the war: the grisly killings of four Blackwater security contractors ...
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Read More »December 29, 2011 Comments Off on O’Malley heartened by drop in Baltimore murders
ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley said Thursday that he was heartened by news that the number of murders in Baltimore is on the decline and approaching the goal that he set when he campaigned for mayor a decade ago. O’Malley, ...
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Read More »December 15, 2011 Comments Off on Outreach campaign to solve D.C.-area rapes, killing
WASHINGTON — The FBI has launched a website to draw attention to a series of unsolved rapes and a murder in the Washington area that investigators believe are related. Local and federal authorities unveiled a public outreach campaign Thursday in ...
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Read More »August 17, 2011 2 Comments
ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley is announcing a 6 percent drop in violent crime in Maryland. O’Malley released the 2010 year-end crime data on Wednesday. It is compiled by the Maryland State Police and submitted to the FBI for use ...
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Read More »June 24, 2011 Comments Off on Whitey Bulger arrives at hometown courthouse
BOSTON — Former Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger has arrived at federal court in his hometown. Several black SUVs with a police motorcycle escort paused briefly in front of U.S. District Court in Boston on Friday before proceeding to a rear ...
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Read More »April 4, 2011 Comments Off on Death penalty reinstated for man convicted of 2 murders
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday reinstated the death penalty for a man convicted in a double murder despite complaints that his lawyers did not offer evidence of his psychological condition at his penalty trial. The high court overturned ...
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