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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba When is a spiral-bound notebook a possible weapon? And who gets to decide? Defense and prosecution attorneys parried with the war court's chief judge on this for about a half-hour Tuesday in a pre-trial hearing in the death...

AKRON, Ohio (Reuters) - A self-described anarchist who could face life in prison if convicted in a failed plot to blow up a four-lane highway bridge near Cleveland told a jury on Tuesday that he had no ill intent. Joshua Stafford, 24, is the only one...

Edgar Gonzalez, one of two 18-year-old Torrington High School football players charged with sexually assaulting two 13-year-old girls, pleaded guilty Tuesday to second-degree sexual assault and second-degree robbery and faces up to seven years in prison...

HAMPTON — LaKeia Griffin was sitting in the grass bleeding when a police officer found her last year. She could barely breathe when Hampton police Lt. Rodney Caison walked up to help her. She told him she had been shot in the chest and the arm....

A Wichita man has been sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty to a 2012 robbery at the Intrust Bank in Valley Center, Kan., U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.   Terry G. Revels, 50, Wichita, Kan., was sentenced to 19 years and seven months...

The National Park Service has announced that it no longer needs to furlough U.S. Park Police. The announcement came after Park Police officers — who patrol the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and several sites in Maryland — had served three of...

A grand jury will now hear the case of a man from our area who's accused of killing his grandparents. A preliminary hearing was held for Robert Philbrook on Monday. The judge approved second degree murder charges against him. Prosecutors showed...

By Kim Palmer AKRON, Ohio, June 11 (Reuters) - Opening statements begin Tuesday in the trial of Joshua Stafford, a self-described anarchist accused of plotting to blow up a four-lane highway bridge near Cleveland. The plot failed. Stafford, 24, is the...

A second inmate has been charged with assaulting an officer at the State Correctional Institution at Somerset.   James Michael Spencer, 34, is charged with assault by prisoner and aggravated assault, both felonies, and simple assault in a criminal...

Only three Washington County residents testified at a public hearing Monday night on a request by Columbia Gas of Maryland to raise residential and commercial customers’ total natural gas bills by more than 16 percent. The utility company’s...

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Americans accused of divulging secrets to the media have escaped long prison sentences, a pattern that may reassure Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who exposed the U.S. government's top-secret surveillance...

A Radford man arrested and charged for robbing and beating a 70-year-old woman last year will enter a guilty plea on Friday. According to a news release, police found a 70-year-old woman who had been beaten and robbed when they arrived at a house on the...