Tag: Sentencing
Mississippi court upholds life sentence for pot possession
JACKSON, Miss. — The Mississippi Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld a life sentence for a man convicted of a marijuana possession charge because...
Wisconsin appellate court rejects most of shaming sentence
MILWAUKEE — The Wisconsin Court of Appeals on Wednesday threw out part of a woman’s shoplifting sentence that required she tell the management of...
Sentence next for ex-UAW leader who embezzled, lived large
DETROIT — A welder who rose from the factory floor to become president of a venerable U.S. labor union is facing a prison term...
‘Monster’: 7 life sentences for ex-hospital worker in deaths
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A former nursing assistant who killed seven elderly veterans with fatal injections of insulin at a West Virginia hospital was sentenced...
Kansas man sentenced to life for killing woman, 2 children
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A Kansas man who killed his estranged girlfriend and her two children before setting their house on fire was...
Illinois justices weigh harshness of 19-year-old’s life term
SPRINGFIELD, iLL. — A state prosecutor told the Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday that a man who was 19 when he participated in a...
Judge sentences co-founder of ‘Students for Trump’ to prison
NEW YORK — A co-founder of “Students for Trump” during the 2016 presidential campaign was sentenced to 13 months in prison Tuesday for posing...
8 years for dad of Saints ‘super fan’ in charity, drug case
NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana man whose seriously ill son gained fame in New Orleans for his devotion to the Saints football team was...
Former world track chief Diack back in Senegal after release
DAKAR, Senegal — Disgraced former world athletics head Lamine Diack returned home to Senegal late Monday after a local soccer club paid a bond...
Sentencing set in insulin injection deaths of 7 VA patients
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Sentencing is set this week for a fired nursing assistant who admitting to killing seven elderly veterans with fatal doses of...
