US government releases once-secret Watergate files

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government on Friday released more than 850 pages of once-secret documents from the Watergate political scandal, providing new insights on privileged legal conversations and prison evaluations of some burglars in the case. A federal judge had decided earlier this month to unseal some material, but other records still remain off limits.

By: Richard Lardner and Stephen Braun, Associated Press, The Jamestown Sun