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Women’s Court may be renewed on Oʻahu and expanded to other islands

Jan. 30, 2025 12:53 PM EST

When the Oʻahu Women’s Court was established in 2022 to offer an alternative to incarceration, officials had a goal of admitting 20 participants a year. As of this month, 33 women were currently enrolled. The pilot project has been a success, say advocates, who are seeking to make...

Who are the hostages released as part of the Hamas-Israel ceasefire in Gaza?

Jan. 30, 2025 11:14 AM EST

JERUSALEM (AP) — Hamas-led militants released eight hostages on Thursday after more than 15 months in captivity, including an Israeli soldier, bringing to 15 the number of captives freed since the start of a ceasefire in Gaza more than a week ago. Agam Berger, 20, was among five...

Former US Sen. Bob Menendez gets 11 years in prison for taking bribes and acting as agent of Egypt

Jan. 29, 2025 20:06 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez was sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in prison for accepting bribes of gold and cash and acting as an agent of Egypt — crimes his lawyer said he’s been mocked for as “Gold Bar Bob.” The judge delivered the sentence after Menendez...

Man sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty in fatal shooting of Kentucky deputy

Jan. 29, 2025 18:21 PM EST

GEORGETOWN, Ky. (AP) — The man charged with fatally shooting a Kentucky deputy during a traffic stop will spend the rest of his life in prison, without the possibility of parole, after entering a guilty plea Wednesday. Steven Sheangshang, 47, pleaded guilty at a court hearing in...

Israeli father says even in Hamas captivity, his daughter heard his pleas to come home alive

Jan. 29, 2025 03:25 AM EST

RAMAT GAN, Israel (AP) — For more than 470 days, Eitan Gonen publicly pleaded with his daughter to stay alive while in Hamas captivity. He didn't know if she would hear him, but he ended every interview he gave with the same hopeful message: Romi is coming home alive. When he...

Trial begins for neo-Nazi group leader accused of plotting power grid attack

Jan. 28, 2025 17:29 PM EST

BALTIMORE (AP) — As the founder of a Florida-based neo-Nazi group goes on trial for conspiring to attack Maryland’s power grid, his abhorrent beliefs aren’t really the point, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. They said it is his willingness to act on those beliefs that jurors...

Woman gets more than 3-year prison term for helping pregnant Chinese women get to US

Jan. 27, 2025 18:07 PM EST

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California woman was sentenced Monday to more than 3 years in prison in a long-running case over a business that helped pregnant Chinese women travel to the United States to deliver babies who automatically became American citizens. U.S. District Judge R. Gary...

Man convicted of holding down boy while he was raped at a youth center gets 20- to 40-year sentence

Jan. 27, 2025 15:06 PM EST

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A former leader at a New Hampshire youth detention center who was convicted of holding down a teen while he was raped in 1998 was sentenced Monday to 20 to 40 years in prison. Bradley Asbury, now 70, was found guilty in November on two counts of being an...

Man accused of helping son hide 4 bodies in Wisconsin cornfield sentenced to 16 years in prison

Jan. 25, 2025 12:10 PM EST

MENOMONIE, Wis. (AP) — A Minnesota man accused of helping his son hide four bodies in a Wisconsin cornfield has been sentenced to 16 years in prison, online court records show. Dunn County Circuit Judge James Peterson sentenced 59-year-old Darren Osborne of St. Paul on Thursday. A...

Connecticut to award $5.9 million to family of wrongfully imprisoned disabled man

Jan. 24, 2025 17:59 PM EST

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — More than four years after his death, Richard Lapointe's family is set to receive a nearly $5.9 million award from Connecticut for his wrongful, quarter-century imprisonment that ended in 2015 when his murder conviction was overturned in the rape and killing of his wife's...