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Judge finds Ohio pastor guilty of violating fire code while church operated as a temporary shelter
A judge in northwestern Ohio found a pastor guilty on criminal charges Tuesday for failing to comply with the city fire code after he opened his church to let homeless people and others stay inside overnight to escape the winter chill. Chris Avell, pastor of Dad's Place Church in...
Lawmakers in Pakistan's Punjab impose total ban on kite fliers over safety concerns
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Lawmakers in Pakistan's most populous Punjab province on Tuesday passed a law permanently banning kite flying. The measure, which includes enhanced prison terms and heavy fines on kite fliers and kite manufacturers, comes ahead of the decades-old festival of...
Biden commutes sentence for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted in killing of FBI agents
WASHINGTON (AP) — Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier will return home nearly half a century after he was imprisoned for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents. President Joe Biden commuted Peltier's sentence Monday following decades of community-led advocacy calling his imprisonment an example of...
Ex-49er Dana Stubblefield to remain in prison for now after judge denies bail ruling
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Former San Francisco 49er Dana Stubblefield, whose 2020 rape conviction was vacated late last year, will remain in California state prison for now after a judge declined to make a bail ruling Friday. Santa Clara County's Superior Court Judge Hector Ramon...
North Carolina school board member gets prison time after obstruction, extortion convictions
SMITHFIELD, N.C. (AP) — A central North Carolina local school board member was sentenced to active prison time after being convicted of extortion and other crimes, with some related to the attempted blackmail of a congressional candidate. At the close of a trial Friday, jurors...
Biden pardons the late Black nationalist Marcus Garvey as well as 4 others and commutes 2 sentences
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s. Also receiving pardons were a top Virginia lawmaker and advocates for immigrant rights,...
Oregon man who kidnapped a Seattle woman and kept her in a makeshift cell gets life sentence
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon man has been sentenced to life in federal prison after being convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting two women in separate instances, including locking one in a cinder block cell. Negasi Zuberi, 31, was sentenced Friday in federal court in...
Mozambique’s ex-finance minister gets another 2.5 years behind bars in ‘tuna bonds’ corruption case
NEW YORK (AP) — Mozambique’s former finance minister has been sentenced to serve another two-and-a-half years in prison by a U.S. court for his role in the “ tuna bond ” scandal that triggered a financial crisis in the struggling African nation. Manuel Chang, 69, was...
Biden sets record by commuting sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted on nonviolent drug charges
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced Friday that he was commuting the sentences of almost 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses, using his final days in office on a flurry of clemency actions meant to nullify prison terms he deemed too harsh. The recent...
Former CIA analyst pleads guilty to leaking info on planned Israeli attack on Iran
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A former CIA analyst pleaded guilty Friday to leaking information on a planned Israeli attack on Iran. Asif Rahman, 34, was arrested by the FBI in November weeks after classified documents appeared on the Telegram messaging app. He entered...
