Louisiana GOP lawmakers want to make it easier to try juveniles as adults

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's Republican-controlled Legislature approved a constitutional amendment on Friday that would allow them to expand the number of crimes in which juveniles between 14 and 16 years old could be tried as adults. The state's constitution currently...

Florida detective sentenced to 24 years in prison for sexually exploiting a teenage girl

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A former Florida detective accused of severely beating a Black man has been sentenced to nearly 25 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting a teenage girl. A federal judge in Jacksonville sentenced Josue Garriga, 35, of St. Augustine on Monday,...

Zimbabwe court convicts opposition leader and 34 activists after 5 months of pre-trial detention

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A Zimbabwean court has convicted an opposition leader and 34 activists on charges of participating in an unlawful gathering, more than five months after they were taken into pre-trial detention. Jameson Timba, interim leader of a faction of the splintered...

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

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

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

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,...