A man who stole documents from the Maryland Historical Society and other archives nationwide has been released from prison where he spent the last year. A lawyer for Jason Savedoff confirmed he was released Thursday. Savedoff pleaded guilty to helping ...

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PHILADELPHIA — The nation’s top law enforcement officer got a glimpse of the challenges facing ex-offenders attempting to rebuild their lives on Tuesday as he attended an unusual court session and then met with several of them afterward. Attorney General ...

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SOMERVILLE, N.J. — A New Jersey man imprisoned for nearly two decades for a murder he insisted he didn’t commit moved a step closer to freedom Monday when a judge overturned his conviction and ordered him released on bail, prompting ...

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When all of the procedural information was finished — when a bed-ridden James R. Gilmore was released from prison Wednesday after serving nearly 39 years for killing his wife — his lawyer turned to him.

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A man convicted of fatally stabbing another man with a sword drawn from a walking cane after a dispute over a football bet has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Forty-seven-year-old Todd Marrow had been convicted in July of ...

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WASHINGTON — A man who planned a mass shooting at the headquarters of a conservative Christian lobbying group in Washington last year was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison for the plot that injured a security guard. Floyd Corkins ...

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WASHINGTON — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on Wednesday implored Senate colleagues to support a sweeping overhaul of federal sentencing guidelines, saying they disproportionately affect minorities and are reminiscent of Jim Crow laws. “There is no justice here,” said the libertarian ...

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WASHINGTON — Every weekend, Cindy Martinson treks from her home in Mason City, Iowa, about 160 miles roundtrip to Waseca, Minn. She visits the federal prison there, where her daughter Mandy Martinson, a first-time offender, is in the middle of ...

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A man who operated brothels in Annapolis and Easton has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison after being convicted of sex trafficking. Twenty-six-year-old Kevin Garcia Fuertes was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Baltimore. Fuertes, a Honduran citizen ...

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning, who was previously known as Bradley Manning, wants estrogen treatments that would promote breast development and other female characteristics, which she’d be willing to pay for, while she’s incarcerated at the all-men military ...

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