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Timbuktu’s jihadist police chief guilty of war crimes

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has convicted the former head of the Islamic police in Mali’s historic city of Timbuktu for crimes against humanity and forcing hundreds of women into sexual slavery. Prosecutors say Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud led a “reign of terror” in Timbuktu after it was overrun in […]

Woman sentenced after pleading guilty to charges connected to 2022 shooting

A woman accused of shooting her girlfriend in the head has been sentenced after pleading guilty. >>1-year-old seriously injured after being hit by car in Clark Co. Alonjine (AJ) Starks, 36, learned her punishment Monday in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court, according to court records. She pleaded guilty to felonious assault and discharge of a […]

Judge finds ex-OCCC officer guilty of murdering his mother

CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL @STARADVERTISER.COM Circuit Court Judge Rowena Somerville found Anthony F. Pereira guilty today of second-degree murder of his mother. Pereira and his defense attorney, Harrison Kiehm, listen to Somerville as she speaks before the guilty verdict announcement. 1 /1 CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL @STARADVERTISER.COM Circuit Court Judge Rowena Somerville found […]

Top European rights court rules Russia guilty of abuses in Crimea

The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that Russia committed rights violations in Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow occupied and annexed in violation of international law in 2014. Russia violated the right to life, the prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment, and freedom of expression and assembly, the court said, among other abuses. […]

Huber Heights city manager pleads guilty to OVI charge, gets probation

Jun. 24—Huber Heights City Manager Rick Dzik will spend the next two years on probation after he was convicted Monday of a drunken driving charge in Knox County. Dzik, 42, pleaded guilty Monday in Mount Vernon Municipal Court to operating a vehicle while intoxicated. A second charge, a left of center traffic citation, was dismissed. […]

Man found guilty of murdering UA professor sentenced to life in prison

The man charged with the murder of a University of Arizona professor in Tucson was on Monday sentenced to life in prison. Murad Dervish, 48, was found guilty of first-degree murder after he shot Thomas Meixner, the head of the university’s Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, on Oct. 5, 2022. On May 21, a […]

Mom accused of torturing children with blowtorch pleads guilty

DALE COUNTY, Ala (WDHN) — An Ariton woman accused of beating and burning her children with a blowtorch will spend the next five years in an Alabama prison. In June, Ashleigh Ableman pled guilty to charges of aggravated child abuse and chemical endangerment of a child and was sentenced to five years in prison, followed […]