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Doctor gets 7 years behind bars for prescription scheme
BOSTON (AP) — A doctor has been sentenced to seven years in prison for her role in a scheme to prescribe Adderall to people without a legitimate medical purpose. Leslie Caraceni, 58, of Uxbridge, was also sentenced Wednesday in federal court to three years of probation, federal prosecutors said in a...
Killer who became mentor in prison has sentenced reduced
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut inmate who helped start a mentoring program for younger prisoners has had his sentence reduced and could be released next year. Clyde Meikle, 49, who was convicted of murder in the shotgun slaying of a cousin in 1994, was granted a sentence modification Friday from 50...
Man convicted in 3 killings to be last executed under Trump
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — The last federal inmate facing execution before President Donald Trump leaves office was sentenced to death for the killings of three women in a Maryland wildlife refuge, a crime that led to a life sentence for the man who fired the fatal shots. Dustin Higgs, 48, who is scheduled...
Man convicted of killing ex-girlfriend sentenced to prison
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A man who killed his one-time girlfriend in a Sioux City hotel room before setting the rooom on fire has been sentenced to 75 years in prison. Jordan Henry, 31, was sentenced Friday in Woodbury County District Court to 50 years for second-degree murder and 25-years for arson, the...
Ex-Alabama psychiatrist sentenced in federal pill mill case
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A former psychiatrist in Alabama will not serve any time for his role in a federal pill mill case. James Edwards, who was at one time charged with drug distribution in an 87-count indictment, pleaded guilty to one count of information for aiding or abetting the acquisition of a...
Bond revoked for NW Indiana man charged in Capitol riots
HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — A federal magistrate has revoked the bond for a northwest Indiana man awaiting sentencing in a gang-related case after the FBI charged him for allegedly taking part in the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol. U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew P. Rodovich in Hammond granted the federal...
Court orders new trial for man convicted of abusing daughter
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A state appeals court on Friday overturned the conviction of a southern New Jersey man convicted of sexually abusing his daughter beginning when she was 5, and ordered a new trial. The three-judge panel wrote that some testimony shouldn’t have been admitted at the man’s...
US executes Virginia gang killer despite COVID-19 infection
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — The U.S. government executed a drug trafficker Thursday for slaying seven people in a burst of violence in Virginia’s capital in 1992, with some witnesses in the death-chamber building applauding as the 52-year-old was pronounced dead. Corey Johnson's execution went ahead...
Man who abandoned overdosing man sentenced on fed charges
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. (AP) — A man who abandoned an fatally overdosing man in a Port Townsend hospital parking lot has been sentenced on related federal charges. The U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release that 38-year-old Adam Michael Kelly on Thursday was sentenced to more than five years for...
Former Guam mayor sentenced to 3 years in extortion case
HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — A former Guam mayor has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison for extorting money from an informant who posed as a drug trafficker. Former Yona Mayor Jesse Mendiola Blas was sentenced Thursday to 37 months in prison, with credit for 15 months already served, the...
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