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Md. Couple Gets 5 Years For Hat Store Robbery

A couple convicted of staging a robbery inside a West Ocean City hat store has been sentenced to five years in prison.

2013/02/08

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Former Prison Guard Pleads Guilty In Assault

A former correctional officer at a Hagerstown prison has pleaded guilty to conspiring to obstruct justice and destroy evidence in the beating of an inmate.

2013/01/30

Convicted Rapist & Former Md. School Teacher Will Spend Life In Prison

A federal appeals court has ruled that a former Catholic school teacher convicted of raping a student must remain in prison.

2013/01/25

Convicted Rapist Slain In Western Md. Prison

Authorities are investigating the slaying of a western Maryland prison inmate convicted of multiple rapes in Anne Arundel County.

2013/01/17

Inmate Indicted In Cellmate’s Death In Western Md.

A western Maryland state prison inmate faces a first-degree murder charge in the strangulation of his cellmate.

2013/01/17

UN Report Calls On Cuba To Release Alan Gross

A United Nations group is calling on the Cuban government to release an American who has been held in the country for more than three years, saying his detention is arbitrary.

2013/01/09

Man Pleads Guilty In Case Involving Inmate Death

A Maryland jail worker accused of failing to seek medical attention for an inmate found hanging by a sheet while in custody pleaded guilty on Friday to one count of falsification of records in a federal investigation.

2013/01/04

Incarcerated Veterans Train Dogs For Other Vets

Hazard Wilson’s new cellmate is a hairy bundle of energy whose playful zeal can’t be contained by steel doors: a five-month-old golden retriever. Yardley is one of three canines assigned since September to inmates at a maximum-security prison in western Maryland for training as service dogs for disabled military veterans.

2013/01/04