Phoenix man sentenced to 8.5 years in prison for attempting to hire hitman to kill ex-wife A man was sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison after admitting to attempting to hire a hitman to kill his ex-wife over a custody issue. 05/1/2024 - 2:39 pm | View Link
Arizona man sentenced to prison for role in murder-for-hire plot Officials with the U.S. Attorney's Office say a man from Phoenix will spend eight-and-a-half years in prison for his role in a murder-for-hire plot that was connected to a child custody dispute.Per a ... 05/1/2024 - 12:08 pm | View Link
Lawyer gets 10 years in federal prison for trying to hire a hitman to murder mother of his kids An attorney who paid someone he thought would arrange to kill the mother of his children was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Friday in San Francisco, according to the U.S. Department of ... 04/28/2024 - 10:53 pm | View Link
Boston man sentenced to 8 years for murder-for-hire plot targeting his ex-wife, her boyfriend A Boston man was sentenced to nearly eight years behind bars after attempting to hire a contract killer to murder his ex-wife and her boyfriend for $8,000 total. 04/28/2024 - 8:30 pm | View Link
Lawyer gets 10 years in federal prison for hitman hiring attempt to murder his kids' mother Gessen was indicted in July 2022 and was charged with one count of murder for hire and was convicted by a jury. He was given 120 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. 04/28/2024 - 5:05 pm | View Link
The Colorado legislature convened Saturday for a final weekend of work in its 2024 session, which is set to end Wednesday. Major pieces of legislation are still pending, with lawmakers expected to debate gun regulations, housing, land-use policy, transportation, property tax reform and other priorities in the final days.
This story will be updated throughout the day.
Updated at 1:30 p.m.: A proposed Constitutional amendment to remove defunct language banning same-sex marriage will go to voters this November after a referred measure passed the Colorado House on Saturday.
The proposed amendment would remove a ban approved by voters in 2006.
Kimberly Zapata, the former Milwaukee elections official who committed election fraud in the 2022 elections by falsely filing for three military absentee ballots found out her fate this week.
Zapata had been facing up to five years in prison, instead was sentenced to one year of probation, a $3,000 fine and 120 hours of community service.
Ukraine estimates that over half of all Russian casualties are due to small, cheap FPV drones are just modified consumer items. Last year, Russian radio jammers often brought them down, to the point that Ukraine was losing upwards of 10,000 a month. Since then, the technology has advanced and their jammers don't work anymore.
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Russia has put Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on its wanted list, Russian state media reported Saturday, citing the interior ministry’s database.
As of Saturday afternoon, both Zelenskyy and his predecessor, Petro Poroshenko, featured on the ministry’s list of people wanted on unspecified criminal charges. The commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, Gen.
LONDON — Sadiq Khan, the Labour Party’s mayor of London, romped to victory Saturday, securing a record third straight term at City Hall, on another hugely disappointing day for the U. K.’s governing Conservatives ahead of a looming general election.
Khan won a little over a million votes, or nearly 44% of the vote, more than 11 percentage points ahead of his main challenger, the Conservative Party’s Susan Hall.
A high school athletic director in Maryland has been accused of using artificial intelligence to impersonate a principal on an audio recording that included racist and antisemitic comments, authorities said last month.
Authorities said the case appears to be among the first of its kind in the country and called for new laws to guard against the technology.