Sons' Murders Test Mettle of Pittsburgh Minister Who Left Drugs, Streets to …

Sons' murders test mettle of Pittsburgh minister who left drugs, streets to …

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He was, he said, a "drug and alcohol rehab failure." With divine help, he said, he got clean and stayed clean for the sons he was helping to raise near Homewood's "killing fields." But it wasn't enough. He lost both sons in February to East End streets …
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Study: Halfway houses no cure for recidivism

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Arkansas has joined the national movement to push more criminal offenders into drug courts and community-based punishment, both to cut the cost of expensive prisons and because of the idea that community-based re-entry is a better way to discourage …
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Hecker moved to his ninth prison, this one in Littleton, Colo.

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The newest prison, called Englewood, will give Hecker a bit more freedom than he had in Loretto, Pa., which is the low security prison where Hecker had been housed since June. The move to a lower-security facility means that the notoriously brash …
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Charges bound over in terroristic threats case

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Pennsylvania State Police trooper Brandon Allis said in an affidavit that he was dispatched to Alba for a report of someone armed with a knife who was making threats in the incident. Tango Marbaker, no age or address given, told police that she and Ott …
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