ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s top court Monday unanimously approved COVID-19 pandemic-inspired rules that immediately gave its chief judge sweeping emergency authority to have cases moved to other courthouses or, if necessary, to any suitable and available building. Court of Appeals Chief ...

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Police are investigating the death of an inmate found unresponsive in his cell at a western Maryland maximum-security prison.

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CUMBERLAND — Maryland State Police say a state prison inmate who was slain over the weekend died from blunt-force trauma. Spokesman Greg Shipley said Monday that the state medical examiner’s office has ruled the death of 69-year-old Roger Largent a ...

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A jury convicted a Maryland inmate Thursday of conspiring with two other men to fly drugs and other contraband into a maximum-security prison aboard a drone, a case that exposed a weakness in an inmate dog-training program. Investigators testified at ...

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CUMBERLAND — A state prison inmate has been sentenced to 10 more years after pleading guilty in the slaying of his cellmate. Allegany County Circuit Court records show that 57-year-old Thomas Griggs pleaded guilty Tuesday to second-degree murder in the ...

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CUMBERLAND — An inmate faces a first-degree murder charge in the slaying of his cellmate at a state prison in western Maryland. The Allegany County State’s Attorney’s office said in a statement Monday that a grand jury indicted 26-year-old Venell ...

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Maryland's prison agency says it's barring visitors from the maximum-security Western Correctional Institution near Cumberland while authorities check on an undisclosed security issue.

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