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- Ex-Homeland Security Worker Freed on Bond
- Montgomery Judge Acquitted In Ticket-Tampering Case
- Grieving Grandmother Spared Prison in Girl’s Death
- Montgomery Sentencing Sparks an Outcry; Officials Want Tougher Laws After Driver Paid $500 Fine in Pedestrian Death
- Aron Wins Ruling Against Split Trial; Prosecutors Wanted Guilt, Mental State Considered Separately
- Actor Phill Lewis Indicted In Md. Woman’s Car Death
- Grandmother to Plead Guilty To Involuntary Manslaughter;Md. Girl’s Overdose a Mistake, Lawyer Says
- Evidence Supports Rape Accusation, Prosecutor Argues; Bethesda Dentist’s Attorney Says Case ‘Based on a Lie’
- No Memory Of Accident, TV Star Says
- Gaithersburg Physicist to Fight Extradition in Slaying of Wife
- Strangulation Disputed in Murder Trial;Md. Man’s Attorney Challenges Report
- Suspect Wasn’t Violent, Father Says; Teen Accused of Killing Psychiatrist Is Mentally Ill, Attorney Says
- Defense Opens, Seeking an Acquittal
- TV Star Involved in Fatal Crash; Police Call Alcohol a Factor in Accident
- Aron Lawyer Grills Her
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- Trial Starts with Rival Accounts of Shooting
- Defense: No Proof Dad Killed Tots: Father is Suspected of Slaying Two Babies to Collect Insurance
- Gang-Rape Victim Identifies Defendant as One of Attackers
- Friends’ Alleged Plot Tied to Custody Fight; Md. Trial Starts in Attack on Husband
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- Suspect Will Not Quit Planning Board Post
- Doctors’ Testimony Expected in Aron Case
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- Rape Trial Jury Told Suspect Coached Co-Defendants on Testimony
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- Aron Sought Revenge, Court Told; Slaying Plot Unfolds on Tape and in Go-Between’s Allegations
- Council Hesitates to Force Aron from Planning Panel; Slaying Case Perplexes Montgomery Officials
- Aron to Take Leave from Board, Attorney Says; Arrangement Would Allow Jailed Suspect to Keep Seat but Not Participate in Decisions
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- High Court Ruling Hits Home Quickly; Miranda Expansion Leads Judge to Bar Tape in D.C. Murder Case
- Judge Fined for Road Rage Resigns
- Baby’s Death ‘Wasn’t Right’; Firefighter Tells Md. Jury of Suspicions About Infant Girl
- Prosecutors Paint Picture of Scam That Turned Deadly
- Trial Begins for Montgomery Officer in Wheaton Shooting
- Searching for More Sex-Abuse Claims; Officials Investigate Scope of Alleged Inappropriate Contact
- Ex-Teacher at Sidwell Gets 5 Years on Probation; A Plea Bargain Spared Young Abuse Victim from Testifying in Court
- Self-Defense Asserted in Slaying of 3; Montgomery Suspect to Get Medical Exam
- Prosecutors Depict Scam Turned Deadly; Psychologist’s Killing May Be Linked to Debt
- Md. Officer Charged in Shooting;Suspect Left Duty for Woman’s Home
- Ex-Whitman Player Pleads Guilty
- Three Signing Interpreters Open Deaf Defendant’s Trial; Stabbing of Blind Girlfriend Is Alleged
- Md. Hotel Bar Fights Loss of Liquor License; Rum and Coke Not Viewed as Half Food
- Father’s First Trial to Begin; Two Babies’ Deaths Initially Tied to SIDS
- Aron’s Husband Tells of a Marriage Crumbling Quietly
- Trial of Husband Opens in Scientist’s Slaying
- Pathologist: Defendant Suffocated Baby
- Case Against Son Is Shaky, Lawyer Says
- Retrial of Former Soldier Gets Underway in 2006 Shooting Death
- From the Ruthann Aron Trial, Comedy and Drama
- Damage to Brain Claimed
- School Bus Aide Not Guilty of Assault
- Conviction in Son’s Death Overturned; Court Criticizes Gansler’s Use of SIDS Statistics in Insurance Argument
- Jury Tries Again Today for Verdict
- Aron’s Lawyers Oppose Ouster
- Aron Gets Three Years for Hiring a Hit Man: Judge Denies Plea for Treatment
- Judge Clears Way for Aron to Be Incarcerated in Hospital
- Aron Ranked Spouse First Hit, Tape Shows
- Aron’s Husband Believes She is Mentally Ill
- 5-Year-Old Testifies at Molestation Trial
- Baby Wasn’t Smothered, Expert Says: Prosecutors Question Seizure Claim
- Former Coach Pleads Guilty to 6 Counts of Sexual Abuse
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