Maryland is joining a sex-offender registry program that law enforcement officials say will make it more efficient to share records.

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has struck down a North Carolina law that bars convicted sex offenders from Facebook, Twitter and other popular sites. The justices ruled unanimously Monday in favor of North Carolina resident Lester Packingham Jr. His Facebook ...

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The deputy U.S. attorney general heads news summary including sex offenders, impeachment and fashion design.

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The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a North Carolina sex offender should have another chance to challenge an order that he wear a GPS monitoring bracelet around the clock and for the rest of his life.

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Convicted sex offenders in Maryland cannot be subjected to retroactive application of the state’s sex-offender registry laws, despite separate “federal obligations” to register, the state’s top court said Monday.

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A convicted child sex offender’s attorney battled a prosecutor at Maryland’s top court Friday over whether an elementary-school aide’s letters to a female student, expressing his deep love and his dreams of kissing her, amount to sexual abuse and exploitation of a minor under state law.

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A man who was convicted of sexual offenses committed before 1995 cannot be ordered to be listed on the state sex offender registry, which went into effect that year, Maryland’s top court ruled Monday.

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A man who pleaded guilty to child sex abuse 15 years ago must register as a sex offender for the rest of his life, not the 10 years required by the law in place in 1998, the state’s top court held Wednesday.

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OAKLAND — A registered sex offender has been convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in the slaying of a young couple in a hobo camp in Oakland. Forty-six-year-old Jeffrey Minnick entered an Alford plea to the charges Wednesday. An ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says rules requiring sex offenders to update their registration when crossing state lines don’t automatically apply to those who committed their crimes before the law was passed. The high court ruled 7-2 that Billy Joe ...

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