A man who was attacked by a baseball bat-wielding college student is suing the school where the attack happened, saying it failed to protect the community from the suspect who was later accused of cannibalism. Joshua Ceasar, 23, was left ...

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A 15-year-old sophomore at Perry Hall High School who made references to murder-suicide on Facebook has been charged as an adult in the shooting of a classmate on the first day of school, authorities said Tuesday. Robert Wayne Gladden Jr. ...

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HARTFORD, Conn. — The state attorney general’s office urged a key official on Friday to dismiss a $150 million claim filed by a woman who was mauled and disfigured by a chimpanzee that went berserk in 2009. But the victim, ...

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HARRISBURG, Pa. — A man who claims to be the unknown victim molested in a Penn State shower by Jerry Sandusky in a case that led to Joe Paterno’s firing intends to sue the university for its “egregious and reckless ...

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BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Jerry Sandusky’s trial in the Penn State scandal opened in graphic fashion Monday with the first witness testifying that the retired coach molested him in the locker-room showers and in hotels while trying to ensure his silence ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A measure to expand electronic harassment laws has cleared both chambers of the Maryland General Assembly. The state Senate voted Monday to approve the bill. Current Maryland law prohibits using email to harass someone and requires the harassing ...

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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 trial of 40-year-old Cambodian immigrant Pov Srun is set for ...

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Baltimore police say a woman has been charged with assault in a stabbing at the Occupy Baltimore site. Officers say 23-year-old Desiree Nicholson of Halethorpe has been charged with assault in the incident early Sunday at the encampment at the ...

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NEW YORK — A prosecutor in New York says a grand jury has indicted former IMF leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn in connection with an alleged attack on a hotel maid. The assistant district attorney did not specify the charge. Strauss-Kahn was ...

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HAGERSTOWN — A court-ordered panel of experts said Wednesday that security investigators failed to follow up on signs of mental illness that should have prevented the apparent perpetrator of the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks from working with anthrax at the ...

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