Conner sentenced in fentanyl trafficking case Joseph Conner was sentenced in federal court on May 1 to five years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release for trafficking fentanyl in the Great Falls area. Conner, aka Street, ... 05/1/2024 - 12:08 pm | View Link
Ortiz gets 7 years for leading drug ring in Orleans County Juan Carlos "JC" Ortiz, a 29-year-old from Springfield, Massachusetts, was sentenced today to 95 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release for his role in drug conspiracies that ... 04/30/2024 - 12:01 pm | View Link
The faces of a Cheshire drugs gang that flooded town with crack cocaine and heroin A drugs gang who flooded a Cheshire town with crack cocaine and heroin over a 13-month period have been put behind bars for more than 25 years. Six men and two women were convicted as part of ... 04/29/2024 - 1:46 pm | View Link
Tough-on-crime bill imposing adult sentences on juveniles heads to Gov. Bill Lee’s desk Teens as young as 14 years old who commit serious crimes in Tennessee will face up to five years of adult incarceration or probation once their juvenile sentence ends under a bill now awaiting Gov. 04/28/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
Final defendants sentenced in kidnapping of FBI employee near Oglala Deyvin Morales and Karla Lopez-Gutierrez were both sentenced Friday for their roles in kidnapping an FBI victim specialist at gunpoint in May 2022. 04/26/2024 - 11:46 am | View Link
Jerry Seinfeld’s Unfrosted, a feature film about the heated race to create the toaster pastry Pop-Tarts, starts streaming today (May 3) on Netflix. In his directorial debut, Seinfeld also stars as Kellogg’s head of development, facing cereal mascots and milkmen up in arms because they’re afraid that a breakfast food that doesn’t require milk is going to run them out of business.
Prison is more than a place. It’s also a mindset. When I entered Corrective Colony No. 2—or IK-2, in Mordovia, a region more than 300 miles east of Moscow—I flipped a switch in my head. I’m an inmate now, I told myself. I’ll be here at least nine years. I even rehearsed my release date: Oct.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A judge declared a mistrial Thursday after a jury said it was deadlocked and could not reach a verdict in the trial of a military contractor accused of contributing to the abuse of detainees at the Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq two decades ago.
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The mistrial came in the jury’s eighth day of deliberations.
In a dramatic example of government yielding to public opinion the Senate has introduced legislation to legalize cannabis on the federal level. Though passage before the November election is unlikely, this long overdue legislative action seeks to update a statute stemming [pun intended] from marijuana’s demonized image as depicted in the 1936 documentary film “Reefer Madness” and better reflect public opinion and liberal social trends.
LONDON — Britain’s governing Conservative Party is suffering heavy losses as an array of election results pour in Friday, piling pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ahead of a U. K. general election in which the main opposition Labour Party appears increasingly likely to return to power after 14 years.
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Labour won control of councils in England it hasn’t held for decades and was successful in a special by-election for Parliament that, if repeated in a general election in coming months, would lead to one of the Conservatives′ biggest-ever defeats.
The only negative so far for Labour has been in some areas with large Muslim populations, such as Oldham in northwest England, where the party’s candidates appear to have suffered as a result of leader Keir Starmer ‘s strongly pro-Israel stance in the conflict in Gaza.
Perhaps most important in the context of the looming general election, which has to take place by January but could come as soon as next month, Labour easily won back Blackpool South in the northwest of England that went Conservative in the last general election in 2019, when then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson won a big victory.
BOSTON — A highly anticipated trial began in Massachusetts this week involving a woman accused of striking her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV and leaving him for dead in a snowbank.
John O’Keefe died in a suburb about 20 miles (32 kilometers) from Boston on Jan. 29, 2022.
The case has garnered national attention because the defense alleges state and local law enforcement officials have framed her and allowed the real killer to go free.
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Here are the facts and legal arguments in the case:
The charges: A tumultuous relationship turns deadly
Karen Read, 44, of Mansfield, Massachusetts, faces several charges including second-degree murder in the death of John O’Keefe, 46.