The man who killed three people in a spate of attacks in Nottingham last year should have his sentence changed to one of life imprisonment, the UK Court of Appeal has heard. Valdo Calocane was given an indefinite hospital order after admitting the manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility of Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of Congress on Tuesday called for the immediate release of Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. as lawmakers marked the second anniversary of his imprisonment, part of the Kremlin’s sweeping crackdown on critics of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “The bottom line is that Vladimir Kara-Murza will not be forgotten,” Democratic […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (Portland Tribune) — The Oregon Department of Justice is fighting Frank Gable’s request for compensation for being wrongly convicted and imprisoned for killing Oregon Corrections Director Michael Francke. Gable has filed a petition in Marion County Circuit Court seeking $2 million under an Oregon law that allows compensation to individuals who can prove […]
Mar. 11—- A 55-year-old female business owner was arrested over the weekend on allegations of false imprisonment, assault, running a disorderly business and inducing a woman into practicing prostitution. According to a news release Monday from Willmar Police Chief Jim Felt, Police were called to a business on the 2400 block of First Street South […]
Five traitors, including a sniper of the Russian-created illegal paramilitary formation Somalia, involved in hostilities against Ukraine’s Defence Forces in Donetsk Oblast, have been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Source: Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) Quote: “Based on the SSU evidence base, five more traitors who fought against the Defence Forces on the eastern […]
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Donald Trump doubled down Tuesday on comparing his criminal indictments to the circumstances of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, the top political opponent of Russia’s autocratic leader Vladimir Putin who died in a remote arctic prison after being jailed by the Kremlin leader. Appearing on a Fox News Channel town hall pre-taped […]
A Russian agent has been detained in Kyiv Oblast by the SBU Security Service of Ukraine who was collecting intelligence on the Defense Forces and critical infrastructure in the region, the SBU reported on Feb. 13. The suspect attempted to pinpoint the locations of Armed Forces aviation and showed interest in the routes and frequency […]
Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif has expressed confidence his party will win Thursday’s national election, a vote that has been marred by violence, deep political tensions and the imprisonment of a popular contender. A day before the election, at least 30 people were killed in bombings at political offices, and sporadic attacks on Thursday […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is making part of her closing argument to New Hampshire before Tuesday’s primary with supportive words from the mother of Otto Warmbier, the American college student who died in 2017 after being imprisoned by North Korea. In the three-minute television ad scheduled to air Monday, Cindy […]
A Hialeah man sentenced to prison for causing the deaths of a Miami-area couple in a boat crash in the Bahamas was supposed to surrender to authorities on Friday. But at the 11th hour, a federal judge gave him until March to turn himself in —to the dismay of the victims’ relatives. Josbel Fernandez Echevarria […]
A Concord man will receive a $25 million settlement after serving nearly 44 years in prison for a crime he said he didn’t commit. Ronnie Long, 68, was convicted of raping the widow of a Cannon Mills executive in 1976 by an all-white jury in Concord. Potentially exculpatory evidence was either intentionally withheld from his […]
NEW YORK — Michael Cohen can’t hold his former boss, former President Donald Trump, liable because he was jailed for what he claimed was retaliation for writing a tell-all memoir, an appeals court said Tuesday. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said in an order that it would not revive a lawsuit […]