WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden sets record for most presidential pardons and commutations with latest round of clemency for 2,500 drug sentences.
Gunman holds family of six hostage for 45 minutes after shooting janitor
Trevor Hughes had just returned home from work and just wanted to go inside and sleep but couldn't park because a man was blocking his driveway, police allege
A teacher has admitted stabbing a seven-year-old girl to death at a school in South Korea, officials say. The female teacher, reported to be in her 40s, has been treated for self-inflicted wounds in hospital following the attack in the city of Daejeon on Monday. The girl was a student at the school where the teacher worked but police said they have not yet established a personal relationship between the pair.
Wendy Abrams-Nishikai was 21-year-old UC Berkeley student when she went missing on Halloween 1989
A Texas man was sentenced to 35 years in prison after kidnapping a 13-year-old, driving her to California, threatening her with a firearm and sexually assaulting her.
A Malaysian court has ordered the government and a political analyst, Abdul Razak Baginda, to pay a total of more than 9 million ringgit ($2 million) to the family of murdered Mongolian Altantuya Shaariibuu, media said on Wednesday. The victim of one of Malaysia's most gruesome murders, her body was blown up with military-grade explosives in a forest on the edge of the capital, Kuala Lumpur, in 2006. Two former members of the security detail of Najib Razak, then the defense minister, were convicted of the crime in 2015.
A former aide to two New York governors and her husband are facing additional charges in a case accusing her of acting as an agent of the Chinese government. Linda Sun and Chris Hu pleaded not guilty to the charges at a hearing Tuesday in Brooklyn federal court, according to prosecutors. Sun, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in China, held numerous posts in New York state government over a roughly 15-year career, including deputy chief of staff for Gov. Kathy Hochul and deputy diversity officer under former Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Tara King and boyfriend Uriah Urick arrested after body of Tammy King was discovered at Teas home
Videos are mysteriously missing from an online portal that is legally required to house evidence related to Jan. 6 cases, according to a new lawsuit.
Court finds Salvatore Vasta is immune from a civil suit and that the guards and security officers are not liable
The Arizona Supreme Court set a March 19 execution date Tuesday for a man who pleaded guilty to murder more than 17 years ago and recently said his death sentence was “long overdue.” It would be the state’s first application of the death penalty in more than two years. The court issued an execution warrant for Aaron Brian Gunches, who was convicted in 2007 in the 2002 shooting death of Ted Price, his girlfriend’s ex-husband, near the Phoenix suburb of Mesa.
There were no injuries reported
A Swedish court on Tuesday sentenced a 52-year-old woman to 12 years in prison on genocide charges, in the country's first court case over crimes by the Islamic State group against the Yazidi minority.The woman, a Swedish citizen, had already been sentenced to six years imprisonment in 2022 for allowing her 12-year-old son to be recruited as an IS child soldier.
BOSTON (Reuters) -A jury found a Boston man not guilty on Monday of U.S. charges that he acted as an unlawful agent of China's government by supplying officials information about individuals, dissidents and groups in the local Chinese community. Litang Liang, 65, was acquitted in federal court of charges that he acted as an unregistered Chinese agent in a case brought in 2023 that U.S. authorities had portrayed as part of their commitment to counter efforts by China's government to silence its critics abroad. Liang, a China-born U.S. citizen, had denied the charges and pleaded not guilty.
The music student feared reporting ‘famous’ Repko to police in case it wrecked her career
President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor who was convicted and sentenced to prison on corruption charges surrounding his time in office.
Former partner categorically denies all allegations
The Republican politician, who names her ex-fiancé as one of the accused, says she is calling out "the cowards who think they can prey on women and get away with it" The post Nancy Mace Accuses 4 Men of Rape, Sexual Misconduct in Fiery House Floor Speech: ‘I’m Going Scorched Earth’ | Video appeared first on TheWrap.
Cagefighter Paul Allen has been left paralysed after being shot in the throat
A $10 million settlement between county officials in Springfield, Illinois, and the family of Sonya Massey is the “first step in getting full justice” for the Black woman fatally shot in her home last summer by a sheriff's deputy, lawyers said Wednesday. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump told reporters the settlement, approved Tuesday night by the Sangamon County Board, is poignant, particularly because Massey would have turned 37 on Wednesday and because a criminal trial and legislative changes await.
