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Judge sides with US in Manning document dispute

A government lawyer said Monday the U.S. Army has released the vast majority of court records in Pfc. Bradley Manning's case and told a civilian judge the dispute over the records had become ...
Food truck TV show films in Annapolis Friday

From Baltimore: Hula Honey'sMaggie Sabo of Hula Honey's Hawaiian Shaved Ice of Baltimore prepares a snow cone for a customer at A Taste of Two Cities, a food truck rally pitting Baltimore against D.C. for taste ...
Police Man Faces Charges For Assault And Robbery

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (WUSA9) -- One man faces charges after he assaulted and robbed an elderly woman, police said. Johnny Alejandro Turcios, 18, approached a 63-year-old woman as she was walking home. He attempted to steal her purse but only managed to take her iPad, police said. Police said they tracked Turcios to a shed in the 4600 block of Guilford Place where he was arrested. The victim ...
Landowner Challenges Planning Agency in Md. Farm Road Case

SILVER SPRING, Md. (WUSA9) -- The region's biggest planning agency was challenged Wednesday by a landowner who claims her property value has been steamrolled by bureaucratic nonsense. Laurana McCants owns property in an African American enclave in Sandy Spring where landowners allege the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission has been arbitrarily standing in the way of ...
Three midshipmen charged with rape false statements

Naval Academy have been charged with raping a female midshipman and giving false official statements, the academy said Wednesday.The case will next go to an Article 32 hearing, a military proceeding comparable to a civilian grand jury, and is still under investigation, said Cmdr. John Schofield, an academy spokesman. He declined to release the names of the accused midshipmen until after the ...

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A Walk to Remember

Having played the mean, popular cheerleader who makes life difficult for the awkward heroine in last summer's The Princess Diaries (2001), pop singer Mandy Moore now adds the opposite pole of the high school social spectrum to her resume with her role as Jamie Sullivan, a plain-Jane, goody-two-shoes preacher's daughter in A Walk to Remember. ...

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6-year-old Catonsville girl receives transplant but is rejecting heart

TeresaThis is six year old Teresa, who needs a heart transplant. Ann and Ed Bartlinski have adopted five special-needs girls from China. They also have 4 biological ...
Mom found incompetent for trial in toddlers death

15min Paris and Prince Jackson made their first appearances Tuesday in the wrongful death trial against their father's last concert promoter. AEG Live lawyers played short video clips from the depositions of Michael Jackson's oldest children in court to ...
Three Navy football players accused of sexual assault

FILE - This is a May 7, 2007 file photo showing the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. The U.S. Naval Academy is investigating allegations that three members of its football team sexually assaulted a female midshipman at an off-campus house last year, a Pentagon spokesman said Friday, May 31, 2013, and a lawyer for the woman says she was "ostracized" on campus after she ...
Praying For A Miracle 6-Year-Old’s New Heart Stops Beating After Second Transplant Surgery

CATONSVILLE, Md. (WJZ) — A Catonsville family is praying for a miracle. Their daughter, who just received her second heart transplant, is on life ...
Officer Injured In Mount Royal Accident

Sky Eye Chopper 13 was over the scene around 5:15 p.m. Wednesday night. Police say an officer was responding to another officer’s call for backup when he got into an accident at North Avenue and Charles Street. The injuries are not considered to be ...

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Wheels of U.S. justice turning against Manning

The military trial of Bradley Manning is a judicial lynching. The government has effectively muzzled the defense team.

The Army private first class is not permitted to argue that he had a moral and legal obligation under international law to make public the war crimes he uncovered. The documents that detail the crimes, torture and killing that Manning revealed, because they are classified, have been barred from discussion in court, effectively removing the fundamental issue of war crimes from the trial. Manning is forbidden by the court to challenge the government's unverified assertion that he harmed national security. Lead defense attorney David E. Coombs said during pretrial proceedings that the judge's refusal to permit information on the lack of actual damage from the leaks would "eliminate a viable defense, and cut defense off at the knees." And this is what has happened.

Manning is also barred from presenting to the court his motives for giving the website WikiLeaks hundreds of thousands of classified diplomatic cables, war logs from Afghanistan and Iraq, and videos. The issues of his motives and potentially harming national security can be raised only at the time of sentencing, but by then it will be too late. ...