Former Peruvian Interior Minister Juan Briones Davila has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for helping disgraced President Alberto Fujimori
A lawyer known for his high-profile cases against the police and President Bush asked a judge on Wednesday to spare him jail time for federal tax evasion and fraud conviction.
An animal rights activist who was the voice of "Lucy" in several "Peanuts" television specials was convicted Thursday of illegally demonstrating outside the home of a city animal services employee.
Update 12/20 =========== This very same story has been seeded by someone else at NV days before I seeded mine. Here it is: #c1289675
A woman who took part in a sophisticated marriage scam that charged foreigners seeking citizenship up to $60,000 for a mate has been sentenced to more than three years in prison, authorities said Tuesday.
The sitting Circuit Court Clerk of Jefferson County, Miss., has been convicted by a federal jury in Natchez, Miss., of embezzlement, money laundering, and tax evasion...
In a stinging rebuke of the FBI, a federal judge ordered the government to pay a record judgment of $101.7 million because agents withheld evidence that would have kept four men from spending decades in prison for a mob murder they did not commit.
Ralph David Abernathy (GA) convicted of 18 felony counts Ex-Senator Robert E. Russell Sr. (VA) convicted of not making restitution or serving community service. Former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham convicted of accepting bribes. Texas Congressman Tom DeLay indicted.
The High Commission of Canada in South Africa is not granting ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a visa to enter Canada. Her daughter, Zindzi Mandela, and two security guards were granted a visa.
Connecticut and at least a dozen other states are considering whether to require convicted sex offenders to register their e-mail addresses as part of efforts to combat online sexual predators.
Unattractive Teacher gets 10 years for sex with pupil; not 18mth avg ...A sixth-grade science teacher who was accused of having sex with a 13-year-old student has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Statewide investigation found that some people with a previous criminal background record could in fact be teaching your children, including people that had been charged with or even convicted of stalking, assault or theft.
At age 55, a convicted Government procurement executive died of a heart attack in prison. In 2006 he blamed his conviction on racism. "It's not like GSA or DoD had a lot of blacks in procurement situations," he said.
TOLEDO, Ohio - A GOP fundraiser who embezzled from a state investment in rare coins was sentenced Monday to 18 years in prison in a scandal that helped bring down Ohio's ruling Republican Party on Election Day. Tom Noe, 52, was also fined $139,000.
From the article: A man who called for the killing of British troops has been found guilty of stirring up racial hatred at a rally. He was also photographed holding placards which said: "Annihilate those who insult Islam."
....Former NFL and Nebraska running back Lawrence Phillips was convicted of seven counts of assault with a deadly weapon....Phillips, 31, drove onto a field near Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum after losing a pickup football game on Aug. 21 of 2005.
Teen Convicted Of Killing 15-Year-Old For His iPod A teenager who was part of a gang that fatally stabbed a 15-year-old boy over an iPod was convicted Tuesday of murder.
Convicted Mass. killer seeks sex change A man serving a life sentence for murdering his wife is asking a federal judge to order the state to pay for a sex-change operation, arguing that denying him the surgery amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.
Key figures in a phone-jamming scheme designed to keep New Hampshire Democrats from voting in 2002 had regular contact with the White House and Republican Party as the plan was unfolding, phone records introduced in criminal court show.
Robert Latimer is now hoping that the new Conversative government will intervene in his case from 1993. Latimer told CBC that the courts did not understand his case.
You have to know about the investigative journalism book "The Jungle" to get this article. You also have to know about the Chicago Haymarket Riot that led to the creation of the 40-hour work week.
I think they shouldn't let EMTs without proper training anywhere near things like defibrillators. Or run if you have a hunch.
Residents in a Ocala neighborhood could face charges after a convicted sex offender apparently committed suicide in despair over signs labeling him a "child rapist" posted in his neighborhood, according to Local 6 News.
John Rigas, the founder of Adelphia Communications, was sentenced Monday to 15 years in prison nearly a year after being convicted for his role in a multibillion-dollar fraud that led to the collapse of the nation's fifth-largest cable company.