BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky emerged from an overnight jail stay Thursday after posting bail on new charges that he sexually abused two additional boys, including one who said Sandusky assaulted him in his ...

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The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services says it’s reorganizing to improve communication among its pretrial, prison and parole-and-probation units. The Cumberland Times-News reported on the new structure Tuesday. It establishes north, south and central regions headed by ...

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HAGERSTOWN — A West Virginia man has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the shooting of his former girlfriend at her Hagerstown home in June. The Herald-Mail newspaper reports that 44-year-old Randy McPeak entered the plea Monday in Hagerstown. McPeak, ...

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An Eastern Shore cardiologist has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison for implanting unnecessary heart stents in more than 100 patients. A jury convicted John McLean in July of six counts of health care fraud. Federal prosecutors say ...

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A Baltimore man who pleaded guilty to selling and using counterfeit money has been sentenced to more than three years in prison. Prosecutors say 33-year-old Robert Johnson was sentenced Wednesday in Baltimore to 41 months in prison followed by three ...

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FREDERICK — For Carrie Dillard, managing the daily affairs of the Maryland District Court here, and its 22 employees, has been a matter of leading by example. “I would not ask anything of the clerks I wouldn’t help them with ...

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Twenty-two members of the Dead Man Incorporated prison gang are facing a federal racketeering indictment that alleges that they were involved in drug trafficking, smuggling contraband into prison and four killings. The indictment was unsealed Wednesday after the arrests of ...

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Two former Maryland correctional officials have been dropped from a civil case stemming from an inmate’s murder aboard a prison bus. A Baltimore Circuit Court judge ruled Wednesday in favor of former Public Safety and Correctional Services Secretary Mary Ann ...

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The father of a Baltimore man who was killed by a fellow prisoner while they were being transported by bus in February 2005 spoke of regrets and missed opportunities Monday in his negligence suit against the state. Philip E. Parker ...

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NEW YORK — A former billionaire described by the government as “the modern face of illegal insider trading” was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in prison, the longest insider trading sentence ever but far short of the two decades sought ...

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