KATHMANDU (Reuters) – A Nepali court sentenced a man who thousands believed was a reincarnation of the Buddha to 10 years in jail on Monday for child sexual abuse, a court official said. As a teenager, Ram Bahadur Bamjon had drawn international attention when in 2005 tens of thousands of people turned up to see […]
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — A court in Pakistan sentenced a Christian man to death for sharing what it said was hateful content against Muslims on social media after one of the worst mob attacks on Christians in the eastern Punjab province last year, his lawyer said Monday, adding he will appeal the verdict. In August […]
DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court said it will hear arguments in cases that could lead to a ban on automatic life prison sentences for people who were 19 or 20 years old when they were involved in a major crime such as murder. The court took a significant step in 2022 when it said mandatory […]
A Swiss criminal court on Friday sentenced four members of the wealthy Hinduja family to between four and four and a half years in prison for exploiting their vulnerable domestic workers. The court at the same time threw out the more severe charges of human trafficking. The four — Indian-born tycoon Prakash Hinduja and his […]
GILBERT, Ariz. – One of the members of the so-called “Gilbert Goons” who was sentenced in two assault cases recently was arrested again. Jacob Pennington, 20, was arrested on suspicion of underage drinking on June 13, the same day he was sentenced for his role in a 2022 assault in Gilbert. At around 10:45 p.m. […]
PRATTVILLE − A Butler County man will serve eight consecutive life sentences in prison for the kidnapping and rape of two Prattville teenagers in a crime that shocked this community. Circuit Judge Joy Booth handed down the eight consecutive life terms for Michael Jerome Butler of Greenville in a Thursday morning sentencing hearing that was […]
MACON – The leader of a violent drug trafficking organization (DTO) who directed approximately 2,000 kilograms of cocaine from Mexico into the U.S. — much of which was distributed into the Middle District of Georgia — has been sentenced to two life sentences in prison for his crimes. Albert Ross, aka “Big,” 53, of Stone […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The wife of an Irish businessman who was beaten to death in 2015 and the woman’s father were released from separate North Carolina prisons on Thursday after completing the tail end of their sentences for pleas to voluntary manslaughter. Molly Martens Corbett left the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women in […]
The last of five sentences were imposed Wednesday in connection with the Brooklyn Park home invasion killing of Zaria McKeever, a case that sparked outrage among her family members for what they viewed as a lack of accountability for the juveniles who carried out the shooting at the behest of her jealous ex-boyfriend. Eriana Dewauna […]
Jun. 1—ROCHESTER — White people with felony convictions who are found in possession of firearms or ammunition are twice as likely to receive a lighter sentence in Olmsted County as Black offenders. However, Olmsted County’s numbers are based on a small set of data — 30 such cases from 2017-2021. Ryan Predmore, an attorney who […]
EVANSVILLE — A federal judge sentenced a Henderson, Kentucky, man on Thursday to serve 23 years in prison for selling fentanyl that investigators linked to two deaths. The sentencing comes after Elijah Lovell, 20, pleaded guilty in January to two counts of dealing in fentanyl resulting in death, court records show. A federal grand jury […]
May 27—A former Lebanon Police officer has been sentenced to two years of probation after pleading guilty to one count of obstruction of justice. The Boone County Sheriff’s Office arrested Nicholas Reynolds, 28, in May of 2023. He served two days in jail after an investigation into his conduct during a warrant search for a […]