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Charges have been upgraded against a teenage boy who allegedly punched a man at a Maryland fair last month, killing him.

Charges have been upgraded against a teenage boy who allegedly punched a man at a Maryland fair last month, killing him.

A dog that was ordered to be euthanized despite a pardon issued by Maine’s governor could get a second chance at life as a sled dog.

A judge sentenced a man to 40 years in prison with all but nine years suspended in an illegal firearms case.

Maryland’s highest court ruled Friday that Adnan Syed, the subject of the world-famous “Serial” podcast, will not be granted a new trial after he was convicted of killing his high school classmate Hae Min Lee 20 years ago.

Attorneys for the man accused of killing five people at the Capital Gazette newsroom in Maryland say prosecutors haven’t provided them with enough factual details involving the charges against their client, as they weigh changing his plea to not criminally responsible due to insanity.

A New Zealand jury on Friday found a man guilty of murder in the death of 22-year-old British backpacker Grace Millane. Millane died last December on her birthday after meeting the man through the dating app Tinder, going out for drinks with him, and then returning to his hotel apartment in central Auckland. Prosecutors said the man strangled Millane to...

A scandal over alleged sexual molestation and abuse at the Vatican’s youth seminary is growing, with more former papal altar boys alleging inappropriate behavior by priests inside the Vatican walls. Le Iene, an Italian investigative television program, plans to air the new allegations Sunday; the show provided the broadcast to The Associated Press ahead of time. The Vatican announced in...

Seth Hurwitz, owner of some of the D.C. area’s most popular music venues, apologized to the massage therapist he solicited sex from at his sentencing Thursday. News4’s Chris Gordon reports Hurwitz will now undergo court ordered psycho-sexual evaluation.

A 15-year-old boy is now charged with manslaughter in the September death of John Weed after an attack at a fair in Frederick. News4’s Meagan Fitzgerald reports.

A notorious 1980 D.C. drug kingpin asked for his release from prison because of the help his provide authorities in prosecuting other criminals. Mark Segraves reports.

Judge Tammy Kemp, who hugged Amber Guyger and gave her a Bible after the conclusion of Guyger’s murder trial, is coming under scrutiny over whether she crossed an ethical line.

Car lovers from around the world splashed out more than $27 million at an auction Sunday for dozens of luxury cars seized from the son of Equatorial Guinea’s president in a Swiss money-laundering probe. The 25 lots sold by auction house Bonhams included a white-and-cream 2014 Lamborghini Veneno roadster that cost the buyer 8.28 million Swiss francs ($8.4 million), comprising...

More than once, President Donald Trump brought up how much the U.S. has done for Ukraine. Time and again, he asked Ukraine’s president for help. There was no explicit quid pro quo in Trump’s half-hour phone call with Volodymyr Zelenskiy last July. But it wouldn’t have been a stretch to make a connection between Trump’s pleas for help and his...

A state delegate for Frederick County, Maryland, is proposing changes to the county’s hate crime law after a man was fatally attacked at a county fair.

A member of an international team supporting the search for 43 missing students in southern Mexico said Wednesday that new information has led Mexican authorities to begin working at another garbage dump. The dump outside the town of Iguala, Guerrero “is in the epicenter of the action,” said former Colombian prosecutor Ángela Buitrago of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights...

The man who died after prosecutors say two teenage brothers attacked him at a county fair last week in Maryland was a devoted uncle, his sister said Wednesday in a heart-wrenching statement.

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., likened President Donald Trump’s conversation with the Ukrainian president to that of a mob boss.

Prosecutors say the sucker punch that led to a Maryland man’s death came after he refused to give two teens a dollar. Darcy Spencer reports.