City Court judicial races often don’t generate a ton of interest, but then you don’t often have a former mayor on the ballot who resigned the office as part of a plea deal to a misdemeanor crime. This year, former Mayor Lovely Warren, who resigned the post in late 2021, is squaring off in the […]
Jun. 20—A 24-year-old Joplin woman recently received probation when she pleaded down to a misdemeanor in a domestic assault case. Kaylee D. Thurlo pleaded guilty to fourth-degree domestic assault at a hearing Tuesday in Jasper County Circuit Court. She was facing a felony count of second-degree domestic assault stemming from a disturbance a year ago […]
BALTIMORE — Gov. Wes Moore issued more than 175,000 pardons for misdemeanor cannabis possession and use convictions Monday morning — one of the largest state-issued pardons in United States history. “We’ll be clear: This is just a step — this is not a conclusion,” Moore, a Democrat, said in a interview Monday morning. “You have […]
May 2—TROY — A former Tippecanoe High School substitute teacher accused of having a sexually explicit photo on his personal iPad that was seen by a student pleaded to a misdemeanor charge and was fined Thursday in a Miami County court. James E. Hoke, 72, of Tipp City, pleaded no contest to disseminating matter harmful […]
A Gary firefighter was charged with three misdemeanor counts stemming from a Friday police interaction at his residence. Marlon D. Northern Jr., 27, was charged with misdemeanor counts of intimidation, resisting law enforcement and disorderly conduct after an interaction with police who were attempting to impound a vehicle believed to be involved in a police […]
DENVER (AP) — A former Colorado sheriff’s deputy was convicted of a misdemeanor on Friday in the shooting death of a 22-year-old man in distress who had called 911 for help after his car got stuck in a small mountain community. Andrew Buen was also charged with second-degree murder and official misconduct in the 2022 […]
The city of Akron has filed a fake weapons charge against the 15-year-old who was shot in his hand April 1 by an officer responding to a non-emergency call about a person pointing a gun at homes in Goodyear Heights. Capt. Michael Miller, the department’s public information officer, said the teen faces one count of […]
A former Kentucky county official has pleaded guilty to two criminal charges, according to Attorney General Russell Coleman. Shanna Oliver, who resigned as county clerk in Owsley County on March 31, pleaded guilty Friday to one charge of misuse of confidential information, a Class D felony punishable by up to five years in prison, and […]
BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts council on Wednesday approved Gov. Maura Healey‘s plan to pardon tens of thousands of people convicted of misdemeanor marijuana charges going back decades. The pardons approved by the Governor’s Council will take effect immediately, although it will take some time to update state criminal records, officials said. “Massachusetts made history […]
A 50-year-old man pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge in connection with a September 2022 death investigation in Central Lubbock. Sammy Vidales, who has been held at the Lubbock County Detention Center since Nov. 7, 2022, appeared in the 364th District Court and pleaded guilty to a Class A misdemeanor count of assault causing […]
Mar. 23—A stay-at-home mom who uses her story of addiction and recovery to give hope to incarcerated women was taken from her home on a February night, booked into Morgan County Jail and cavity searched after Somerville police stumbled upon an 11-year-old misdemeanor arrest warrant. Neither the defendant nor the complainant remember the incident that […]
One of two Macomb County sheriff’s deputies criminally charged after a teenage boy was slapped in the face while in their custody last year pleaded no contest and was demoted, authorities said. Alan Weir, 50, pleaded no contest Wednesday to willful neglect of duty, a one-year misdemeanor, and was sentenced to one year of probation, […]