May 9—A woman is asking Maine’s highest court to consider whether she was legally sentenced to six years in prison for the death of her newborn 38 years ago. Lee Ann Daigle, 60, pleaded guilty last year to manslaughter in the 1985 death of her infant daughter, who she abandoned in a cold gravel pit […]
Just a few months short of a quarter-century as Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin on Tuesday will put his hand on a copy of the constitution and begin another six-year term as president wielding extraordinary power. Since becoming acting president on the last day of 1999, Putin has shaped Russia into a monolith — crushing political […]
A court in Russia on Monday convicted a Meta spokesperson of justifying terrorism and sentenced him to six years in prison in a swift trial in absentia, Russia’s independent news site Mediazona reported. According to the outlet, the charges against Meta communications director Andy Stone stem from his remarks in 2022 following Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on […]
A 19-year-old man and prosecutors have agreed that he will serve a six-year sentence for fatally shooting a Hopkins man last spring on the southern edge of downtown Minneapolis. Jackson G. Robertson, who has no permanent address, agreed Monday to plead guilty to second-degree unintentional murder in connection with the shooting of Antone Rico Anderson, […]
WORCESTER ― Federal prosecutors are seeking a 71-month prison sentence for a state police lieutenant convicted in December of a three-year overtime scheme, calling him the “poster boy” of state police corruption. In a sentencing memorandum filed in U.S. District Court in Worcester, prosecutors said the crimes of Daniel J. Griffin – who was convicted […]
CAIRO (AP) — President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt was sworn in for a third six-year term on Tuesday after being re-elected in a December vote in which he faced no serious challengers. El-Sissi took the oath of office before parliament, which convened in the new administrative capital in the desert outside Cairo. El-Sissi won 89.6% […]
Member states of the coalition for the development of Ukraine’s IT capacities, formed within the Contact Group for Ukraine’s Defence (Ramstein format), have finalised the signing of the agreement on cooperation on 12 February. Source: European Pravda, citing the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine Details: Ukraine’s Defence Ministry reported on 14 February that the agreement […]