A former U.S. Army private from Kentucky who was devoted to a violent extremist group seeking to erode or destroy Western civilization was sentenced to the maximum 45 years in prison Friday for plotting to arrange a murderous terrorist attack on his paratrooper unit. U.S. District Judge Gregory H. Woods said the maximum sentence was appropriate for 24-year-old Ethan Phelan Melzer because of the lasting harm he caused by sharing U.S. military secrets with other followers of a radical violent group known as the Order of Nine Angles, or 09A, and other terrorist groups online. The judge rejected defence depictions...