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Letters to the Editor - May 19
No right to speed through school zones To the editor: I am surprised at how many people think they have a constitutional right to speed through school zones. In the few last weeks, several writers have voiced their displeasure at having to pay...Tags: Judges, Legal Service, Crime, Law and Justice, Business Enterprises, Justice System
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Parrott speaks to Tea Party about Annapolis session, death penalty petition drive
kaustuv.basu@herald-mail.comHagerstown Tea Party supporters gathered at the Beaver Creek Country Club on Thursday night to hear Del. Neil C. Parrott, R-Washington, talk about the recently concluded session of the Maryland General Assembly and a drive to collect petitions to...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Annapolis, Gun Control, Maryland General Assembly, Parties and Movements
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Hagerstown man sentenced in assault case
dona@herald-mail.comA Hagerstown man was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay more than $30,000 in restitution after pleading guilty Thursday in Washington County Circuit Court to assaulting another man. Matthew Edward West, 40, of 121 Southern Oak Drive,...Tags: Prisons, Broken Nose, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland)
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Hagerstown woman sentenced for drug distribution, neglect of minor
A Hagerstown woman was sentenced this week in Washington County Circuit Court to six years in prison — three for distribution of cocaine and three more for neglect of a minor, according to court records. Kelly Lynn Cruz, 38, formerly of 139 High...
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Philadelphia abortion doctor gets third life sentence
Associated PressA Philadelphia doctor was sentenced Wednesday to a third life term for killing an aborted baby that he described as so big it could “walk to the bus.” Dr. Kermit Gosnell was convicted this week of first-degree murder in the deaths of three...Tags: Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice, FBI, Prescription Drugs, Justice System
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Mail Call - May 15
“People wonder what’s wrong with Washington. Well, it’s the people themselves, that re-elect people like this former governor from South Carolina, who cheated and lied to his wife, and also lied to the people, by thinking he was above...Tags: Judges, Waynesboro (Waynesboro, Virginia), Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution, Washington, DC
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Mail Call - May 14
“Thank you to the nice woman who planted such wonderful flowers in front of the old library in downtown Boonsboro. We appreciate you, and your care for our community.” — Boonsboro “I see that Professor Powell wrote a hit piece...Tags: Saudi Arabia, Prisons, Government, Benghazi, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland)
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Trial set for man charged with conspiracy in Martinsburg bar fight
matthewu@herald-mail.comThe trial for a man charged in a February 2011 bar fight in Martinsburg that left a man with severe injuries was set Monday for Aug. 27 in Berkeley County Circuit Court. Benjamin Jason Bean, 37, who was indicted on one count of conspiracy in October...Tags: Judges, Skull Fracture, Waynesboro (Waynesboro, Virginia), Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice
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If at first you don't succeed, work on your execution
Like me, Del. Neil Parrott seems to believe that any publicity is good publicity. So OK, I’ll bite. Building on his tremendous success in the November election, Petitioner Parrott is having a go at the state’s newly enacted law banning the...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control, Interior Policy, Same-Sex Marriage, Death Penalty
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Man convicted of murder pleads guilty to stabbing girl
dona@herald-mail.comA convicted murderer was in Washington County Circuit Court on Monday, this time pleading guilty to charges that he stabbed a teenage girl whom he had previously sexually abused. Assistant State’s Attorney Brett Wilson told Circuit Judge John H....Tags: Criminals, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Health and Medical Professionals, Justice System
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Ex-Jefferson County sheriff sentenced to 1 year in federal prison in beating of robbery suspect
The Associated PressA former West Virginia sheriff was ordered into federal custody Monday and will spend a year in prison for his role in the 2010 beating of a bank robber after a high-speed chase. U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey rejected pleas that ex-Jefferson...Tags: Criminals, Prisons, Judges, Broken Nose, Crime, Law and Justice
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Cleeves pleads guilty in 2012 Pa. triple homicide, is sentenced to 3 life terms without parole
dona@herald-mail.comA Waynesboro, Pa., man pleaded guilty Friday in Franklin County Common Pleas Court to three counts of first-degree murder in the 2012 shootings of his estranged wife, her boyfriend and the boyfriend’s mother, and was sentenced to three consecutive...Tags: Criminals, Prosecution, Litigation, Kidnapping, Court Preliminary
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