An Army general who admitted to improper relationships with three subordinates appeared to choke up Monday as he told a judge that he’d failed the female captain who had leveled the most serious accusations against him.

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PHILADELPHIA — A Roman Catholic church official who won an appeal of his landmark conviction in the priest-abuse scandal left state prison on Thursday after 18 months behind bars. Monsignor William Lynn left the prison in Waymart in northeastern Pennsylvania, ...

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MECHANICSBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania enacted its first new laws Wednesday in the Legislature’s wide-ranging response to the Jerry Sandusky and Roman Catholic clergy child sexual abuse scandals, a step that expands the nearly 20-year-old playbook for how caseworkers and investigators ...

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ELLICOTT CITY — A jury convicted a former Maryland School for the Deaf aide Wednesday of sexually abusing two of seven middle-school girls who said he had surreptitiously touched their breasts or buttocks over a three-year period at the school’s ...

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ELLICOTT CITY — Prosecutors are dropping solicitation of child pornography charges against a former Maryland School for the Deaf dormitory aide charged with sexually abusing seven middle-school girls. Prosecutors dropped the three charges against Clarence Taylor III on Friday morning ...

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Police are investigating an allegation that a Roman Catholic priest sexually abused a student while he was teaching at Baltimore’s Archbishop Curley High School in the 1970s. The Archdiocese of Baltimore says it’s cooperating with the investigation of the Rev. ...

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WASHINGTON — A court-martial has been scheduled for February for a U.S. Naval Academy student accused of aggravated sexual assault. Midshipman Josh Tate appeared at an arraignment Monday at the Washington Navy Yard. The court-martial is scheduled to begin Feb. ...

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HARRISBURG, Pa. — At least 19 young men have settled with Penn State over assertions of abuse by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, according to lawyers for the claimants. Many, if not all of them, have received checks from ...

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A federal judge in Baltimore says she won’t order the U.S. Naval Academy superintendent to recuse himself from deciding whether three midshipmen face a court-martial in a sexual assault case. U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander said Monday she did not ...

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WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — Jerry Sandusky’s lawyer faced skeptical questioning Tuesday from three judges on the Pennsylvania appeals court over his client’s request that they order a new trial in his child sexual abuse case. The arguments made on behalf of ...

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