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Penn. St. trustee: 400 interviewed in Sandusky inquiry
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Former FBI director Louis Freeh and his team have conducted more than 400 interviews in the internal investigation spurred by child sexual abuse charges against former […]
Court of Appeals limits DNA collection
Maryland’s top court on Tuesday dealt a near-knockout blow to a state law that permits police to collect DNA samples from anyone arrested for a violent crime or attempting to […]
N.Y. suit fails military schools for rape reaction
NEW YORK — A New York lawsuit is asking a court to force the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and the U.S. Naval Academy to improve their response to […]
Man given 3 life sentences for 1970s rapes
ROCKVILLE — A convicted rapist was sentenced to three additional life terms, two of them to be served consecutively, for rapes he committed in Maryland in the 1970s. The Montgomery […]
Top court rules DNA preservation law not retroactive
The Court of Appeals has ruled that the state law requiring the preservation of DNA evidence after conviction is not retroactive from when the bill was signed into law on […]
Man allegedly impersonated officer, raped woman in Linthicum hotel
LINTHICUM — Anne Arundel County Police have arrested a man they say impersonated an officer and raped a woman in a Linthicum hotel. Thirty-eight-year-old Tamango Johnson of Baltimore was arrested […]
Md. duct-tape rapist faces trial in 1998 attack
HAGERSTOWN — A man convicted of four sexual assaults in two states is headed for trial in Hagerstown for a 1998 rape near the western Maryland town of Smithsburg. The […]
Police: DNA match leads to arrest in rape of girl in vacant rowhouse
Baltimore police say a DNA match led to an arrest in the rape of a 13-year-old girl in a vacant rowhouse. Police say 48-year-old Alvin Ray Wright Sr. grabbed the […]
Suspect in East Coast rapes to be extradited to Virginia
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A Connecticut judge on Monday agreed to send a man suspected in rapes along the East Coast to Virginia, where he faces more charges and a […]
Suspect in East Coast rapes could stand trial in Virginia
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Connecticut prosecutors will try to send a man suspected in rape cases along the East Coast to face trial first in Virginia, where a prosecutor asked […]
3 of ‘Norfolk 4’ pursue appeal
RICHMOND, Va. — Three former sailors convicted in a 1997 rape and murder asked the Virginia Supreme Court on Wednesday to revive an appeal that is based on the corruption […]
N.C. court: Firing OK in Duke lacrosse case
RALEIGH, N.C. — The man who wrote the report that obscured the results of the DNA tests in the Duke University lacrosse case might be owed more money, but he […]
