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Taliban offer to free U.S. soldier in exchange for 5 Gitmo prisoners
Associated PressThe Afghan Taliban are ready to free a U.S. soldier held captive since 2009 in exchange for five of their senior operatives imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay as a conciliatory gesture, a senior spokesman for the group said Thursday. The offer follows this...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Kabul (Afghanistan), NATO, Politics
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West Virginia State Police seizes more than 19 pounds of marijuana
Two Indiana residents were charged after West Virginia State Police seized more than 19 pounds of marijuana from a pickup truck that was stopped Tuesday on Interstate 81, according to police and court documents. Marshea Nicole Dunn, 27, and Cody...
Tags: Drug Trafficking
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Former Hagerstown man sentenced to 10 years on probation violation
dona@herald-mail.comA Washington County Circuit Court judge Monday added 10 more years to the prison term of a Hagerstown man sentenced last month to eight years in state prison for a 2012 assault involving a handgun after he was found in violation of probation in a 2011...Tags: Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Juvenile Delinquency, Firearms, Judges, Prosecution
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Woman sentenced for taking medication meant for patient
A 55-year-old woman was recently sentenced to 14 days in prison for taking medication that was meant for a patient at Martinsburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center, where she worked as an emergency room nurse, U.S. Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld II’s...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Trials, Pasadena (Anne Arundel, Maryland), Hospitals and Clinics, Atlantic City (Atlantic, New Jersey)
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Letters to the Editor - June 9
Columnist should have checked his facts To the editor: I’d like to take the opportunity to respond to Lloyd Waters’ column, “Leap tall buildings? Become a CO” (June 2, 2013). To do so, I must state I’m not speaking for...Tags: Maryland State Police, U.S. Army, Politics, American Cancer Society, Government
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Maryland officials discuss how to handle jail problems
Maryland’s top corrections official said Thursday that he would be open to discussing the possibility of moving the Baltimore City Detention Center out of the management of the state corrections department to an independent body. Gary Maynard, the...
Tags: Politics, Michael E. Busch, Government, Executive Branch, Regional Authority
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U.S. Supreme Court authorizes post-arrest DNA collection
The Baltimore SunA divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that police in Maryland and elsewhere can continue the warrantless collection of DNA from people arrested — but not convicted — of serious crimes. The 5-4 decision upheld a state law that allows...Tags: Montgomery County (Maryland), Law Enforcement, Laws, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, FBI
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Lloyd Waters: Leap tall buildings? Become a CO
Wanted: “Someone able to leap tall buildings in a single bound; more powerful than a locomotive; faster than a speeding bullet and prepared to fight the unending battle for truth, justice and the American way.” If you meet any of those...Tags: Politics, Government, Safety of Citizens, AFSCME, FBI
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Hagerstown man sentenced to 10 years in prison on drug charges
A federal judge Thursday sentenced a Hagerstown man to 10 years in prison after he was convicted of drug charges, according to prosecutors. After a three-day trial, Vincent Hernandez, 31, no address given, was convicted by U.S. District Judge J....Tags: Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Trials, Firearms, Judges, Justice System
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Man convicted in child abuse case gets life sentence under W.Va. 'three strikes rule'
matthewu@herald-mail.comA Bunker Hill, W.Va., man convicted of child abuse in February was sentenced Thursday in Berkeley County Circuit Court to life in prison. In addition to the life sentence, Nathan Snyder, 29, was ordered by 23rd Judicial Circuit Judge John C. Yoder to...Tags: Child Abuse, Abusive Behavior, Shootings, Trials, Defendants
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Hagerstown man gets 9 years for distribution of cocaine
A Hagerstown man who was arrested with his son earlier this year on charges of selling heroin and cocaine was sentenced to nine years in prison after entering a plea agreement this week in Washington County Circuit Court. Washington County Circuit Judge...
Tags: Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Trials, Judges, Court Preliminary, Justice System
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Man accused of shooting at Martinsburg Fourth of July event is found guilty of weapons charge
A man accused of shooting another man and an 8-year-old girl at Martinsburg’s Fourth of July celebration last year was found guilty by a Berkeley County jury Wednesday of felony possession of a firearm. Daniel Herbert, 28, who is incarcerated,...
Tags: Shootings, Trials, Firearms, Laws, Crime, Law and Justice
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