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- Patricia A. Woloszyn, Administratrix of the Estate of Richard Lee Woloszyn, Jr. on Behalf of the Estate of Richard Lee Woloszyn Jr., and Patricia A. Woloszyn, Administratrix of the Estate of Richard Lee Woloszyn, Jr. on Behalf of the Next of Kin of Richard Lee Woloszyn, Jr., Appellant v. County of Lawrence; William F. Hall, Warden of the Lawrence County Jail; Matthew Graziani, And/or Michael Sainato., 396 F.3d 314 (3rd Cir. 2005)
John P. Sieminski (Argued), Burns, White & Hickton, L.L.C., Pittsburgh, PA, for appellees.
Before: NYGAARD, McKEE and CHERTOFF, Circuit Judges.
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After fatally shooting a man who yelled at him to slow down, a New Castle teenager drove off to "smoke some weed," police say.
New Castle police on Friday charged Markus Solomon, 18, with killing Gordon Douglas Rees Jr., 31, after Rees yelled at him for speeding through an East Side neighborhood. Solomon was arraigned on charges of homicide, aggravated assault and firearms charges and lodged in the Lawrence County Jail.
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A man is jailed on criminal homicide and other charges after surrendering to police in the shooting of a peacemaker who was trying to break up a fight between two women.
New Castle police Chief Thomas Sansone said in a news release that 24-year-old Dajuan Dawson surrendered on Friday morning. He was in the Lawrence County Jail and was denied bond because of the homicide charge.
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A Florida jury recently handed down a $1.2 million verdict to a Palm Beach County corrections deputy and his wife who were falsely arrested in 2003 and accused of smuggling cocaine into the Palm Beach County Jail.
Cpl. Lawrence Femminella, his wife Gayle, and four other deputies were arrested based on a story made up by a convicted felon and con artist, said the couple's attorney, Robert Saylor.
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A federal judge Tuesday sentenced a Lawrence County woman to serve 27 months in prison for embezzling from a Canonsburg business.
Carole L. McConnell, 48, of New Castle, who pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Maurice B. Cohill.
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PARIS -- The following arrests were logged at the Oxford County jail:
* Lawrence B. MacGillivray, 43, of Lovell, Dec. 28, domestic assault, $500 unsecured bond, Maine State Police.
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MARYVILLE, Tenn. - Fugitive Brian Rummage, 20, might as well have left a trail of bread crumbs for officers to follow.
Rummage, an escapee from the Lawrence County Jail in Lawrenceburg, Tenn., was arrested without incident Thursday morning in Maryville while being held at gunpoint by a woman at her residence on Dockery Drive.
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An 11-year-old Lawrence County boy allegedly shot his father's pregnant girlfriend in the back of the head while she was in bed and went to school, state police said Saturday.
State police early yesterday morning arrested Jordan Anthony Brown, 11, of New Beaver and charged him as an adult with criminal homicide and criminal homicide of an unborn child. He is in the Lawrence County Jail, sequestered from other inmates because of his age, authorities said.
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Former Santa Fe County jail warden Lawrence Barreras, more recently a state Transportation Department supervisor, was the subject of a hard-hitting news profile this week. The department put him on paid administrative leave Monday following the publication of the two-part series.
Investigative reporter Colleen Heild of the Albuquerque Journal documented how Barreras got hired at the dawn of the Richardson administration in 2002 at the Department of Children, Youth and Families despite the fact that he had been fired in 1997 from the state Corrections Department for alleged financial wrongdoing; how he later was hired at the Transportation Department -- at the same time he was a consultant for an Albuquerque architectural firm that was part of a controversial DOT redevelopment project; a...
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A former corrections officer claims in a federal civil rights lawsuit fled in Pittsburgh that Lawrence County passed him over for promotion because of his race and then fired him six days after he filed a discrimination complaint.
Floyd Jackson of New Castle said someone put up fake Barack Obama posters in early 2009 after he objected to not being considered for a captain's position. The signs said, "There needs to be a change at the Lawrence County Jail, Floyd Jackson for Captain," the lawsuit says.