DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Narges Mohammadi, has been sentenced to another year in prison over her activism, her lawyer said Wednesday. Mostafa Nili, Mohammadi’s lawyer, told The Associated Press that his client was convicted on a charge of making propaganda against the system. Nili said the sentence […]
A Missouri judge ruled Friday there is “clear and convincing” evidence that a woman imprisoned for more than four decades in Missouri is innocent. Attorneys for Sandra “Sandy” Hemme, now 64, immediately moved to free her from Chillicothe Correctional Center. If released, Hemme’s prison term will mark the longest known wrongful conviction of a woman […]
PARIS (AP) — French national Louis Arnaud arrived in France on Thursday after he was released by Iran where he was imprisoned for over 20 months for allegedly taking part in nationwide protests. Arnaud was greeted at Paris-Le-Bourget airport by his family in the presence of French Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Séjourné. French President Emmanuel […]
An imprisoned Monroe County elementary principal who sexually abused young boys at his school can begin receiving his state pension next year — possibly thousands of dollars a month for the rest of his life. Ashton could receive about 40 percent of an average salary of about $160,000, or about $64,000 a year. There are […]
Former President Donald Trump on Sunday said he thinks there would be a “breaking point” for the public if he is sentenced to house arrest or imprisonment after he was found guilty on all counts in the hush money trial last week. In clips of a 90-minute interview with “Fox & Friends Weekend” that aired […]
A Charlotte woman has been sentenced to prison for selling guns illegally to people who couldn’t buy them on their own. In a news release Thursday, the Department of Justice said 27-year-old Kayrin English will spend two years in prison for her crimes. ALSO READ: Supreme Court to take up challenge to Biden ghost guns […]
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A top ally of Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan was released from prison Tuesday after nearly a year when a court granted him bail in a corruption case, his party said. Pervez Elahi, the president of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, was arrested in June on charges of illegally appointing officers […]
An imprisoned Oregon man was indicted Friday in connection with the deaths of three women whose bodies were found “under suspicious circumstances” last year in the Portland area, authorities announced Friday. Jesse Calhoun, 39, was indicted by a grand jury this week on three counts of murder in the second degree and three counts of […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday pardoned seven former top military officers who were sentenced to life terms in prison over the ousting of an Islamic-led government in 1997. The former generals, who are in their late 70s and 80s, were pardoned because of health issues and old age, according to a decision published […]
HILLSDALE — A Jerome man already serving two to 20 years in prison for possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine appeared in the 1st Judicial Circuit Court Monday for a plea hearing in a second, unresolved drug case. Jack Wayne-Wesley Bond, 35, is serving his sentence at the Lakeland Correctional Facility in Coldwater. He was […]
INDIANAPOLIS — In 2022, Billie Edison had to make one of the most difficult phone calls of her life. The mother of seven boys, living in an Indiana correctional facility at the time, faced an irresistible offer to walk free and reunite with her kids years sooner than anticipated. Edison was going to tell them […]
An informant who has spent most of the last three decades in and out of lockups has helped send two men to prison for life in separate cases in Georgia — and is now a target of lawyers who say he made false claims in an attempt to spare himself time behind bars. Sterling Flint, […]