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Man who set off makeshift bomb outside Alabama attorney general's office sentenced to nine years

Nov. 21, 2024 18:14 PM EST

MONTOGMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man who detonated a homemade explosive device outside the state attorney general's office was sentenced to nine years in federal prison on Thursday. Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert, 27, plead guilty in August to the charge of malicious use of an...

Georgia woman convicted of killing her toddler sentenced to life in prison

Nov. 21, 2024 16:05 PM EST

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia woman convicted of killing her 20-month-old son and dumping his body in a trash bin was sentenced Thursday to life in prison. Leilani Simon was spared the maximum punishment of life without a chance of parole. Her sentencing hearing in Chatham County...

Former doctor is sentenced to life in prison after conviction for sexually abusing patients

Nov. 20, 2024 20:32 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — A former doctor was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison after being convicted of sexually abusing multiple patients, including children, over the span of years in the New York area. Darius A. Paduch, a former urologist, was found guilty in May following a trial...

Man convicted of killing Laken Riley sentenced to life in prison without parole

Nov. 20, 2024 20:13 PM EST

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — The Venezuelan man convicted of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in a case that became a flashpoint in the national debate over immigration. Jose Ibarra was charged with murder and...

Man convicted in killing of Georgia student Laken Riley sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole

Nov. 20, 2024 13:48 PM EST
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Man convicted in killing of Georgia student Laken Riley sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Laken Riley's family tearfully ask judge to sentence the man convicted of killing her to life in prison without parole

Nov. 20, 2024 13:33 PM EST
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Laken Riley's family tearfully ask judge to sentence the man convicted of killing her to life in prison without parole.

Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik seeks parole for a second time

Nov. 19, 2024 07:09 AM EST

Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage in 2011, was in court on Tuesday for a parole hearing. It was the far-right extremist's second bid for freedom after spending more than a decade behind bars. Breivik,...

Mississippi Gulf Coast restaurant and its co-owner are sentenced for mislabeling seafood

Nov. 18, 2024 18:48 PM EST

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi Gulf Coast restaurant and its co-owner it were sentenced Monday on federal charges of mislabeling inexpensive imported seafood as local premium fish. Mary Mahoney’s Old French House, founded in Biloxi in 1962 in a building that dates to 1737,...

Defendant sentenced in gun battle outside football game that led to girl's shooting death by police

Nov. 18, 2024 16:44 PM EST

MEDIA, Pa. (AP) — A man who was 15 when he was involved in a gunbattle outside a high school football game that ultimately led to the death of an 8-year-old girl has been sentenced to 14 to 28 years in prison. Nineteen-year-old Angelo Ford was sentenced Friday in Delaware County in...

Court-martialed military veteran sentenced to over 4 years in prison for Capitol riot attack

Nov. 18, 2024 13:17 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former U.S. Army soldier who was court-martialed for fatally shooting a handcuffed civilian in Iraq two decades ago was sentenced on Monday to more than four years in prison for his role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Edward Richmond Jr....