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Hospice company settles false claims allegations

Federal prosecutors say a hospice company in Arizona has agreed to pay $12 million to settle allegations that the company submitted Medicare claims for patients who did not have a terminal prognosis of six months or less.

Tags: Medicare fraud

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New trial ordered in NC teen's slaying

Baltimore State's Attorney Gregg Bernstein says his office plans to retry Michael Johnson for the death of a North Carolina honor student who was missing for months before her body was found in a river.

Tags: crime

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D.C. man gets 78 years for raping three women

A D.C. man who posed as a cab driver, was convicted Monday of sexually assaulting and kidnapping three women who had hailed the man's cab.

Tags: Emero Tornero, taxi, crime, rape, sexual assault, Ronald Machen

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Carl Snowden gets 10 days for probation violation

The former civil rights director for Maryland's attorney general will spend 10 days in jail for violating his probation.

Tags: Carl Snowden, drunken driving

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Man gets life sentence for Eastern Shore murder

A 19-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison for a fatal shooting on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

Tags: crime, fatal shooting, Eastern Shore

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Man sentenced to 30 years in Md. kidnapping case

Terron White was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty last August to two counts of kidnapping. Authorities say White carjacked Elyssa Samuels with her son inside the vehicle and drove them from Baltimore to the Capital Beltway.

Tags: kidnapping, Capital Beltway, crime

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Md. man sentenced for assaulting federal officer

A Randallstown man has been sentenced to a year in prison for causing a U.S. Park Police officer to be thrown into traffic on the Baltimore Washington Parkway.

Tags: police,

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Lynchburg prosecutor won't seek new death sentence

Lynchburg's chief prosecutor has decided not to seek a new death sentence for the man convicted of killing a couple in front of their young daughters.

Tags: Lynchburg, Va.

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Va. court ruling fails to answer poker question

Is poker a game of skill or a game of chance? The Virginia Supreme Court won't say.

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Central Va. psychic loses appeal to U.S. panel

A federal appeals panel has rejected a psychic's claims that Chesterfield County's zoning and business licensing regulations violate her religious and free-speech rights.

Tags: psychic,

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