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Former doctor is sentenced to life in prison after conviction for sexually abusing patients
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
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
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
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
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
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
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....
Climate change activist gets 2 years in prison for dumping red powder on Constitution display
WASHINGTON (AP) — A climate change activist who dumped red powder on a case containing the original copy of the U.S. Constitution was sentenced on Friday to two years in prison for his role in the vandalism earlier this year at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. U.S....
Former GOP Virginia lawmaker Matt Fariss pleads guilty to felony gun and drug charges
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A former Virginia lawmaker has pleaded guilty to felony gun and drug charges and been sentenced to time already served in jail. Matt Fariss, who had served in the House of Delegates as a Republican since 2012 before running unsuccessfully last year as an...