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Lakeland, Fla. A former city commissioner was sentenced to three years in prison on Monday for admitting to shooting dead a man on suspicion of stealing a hatchet from his shop in 2018.Former commissioner Michael Dunn, 51, pleaded guilty…

A former British lawmaker was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Monday for sexually abusing a teenager, one of several incidents involving members of parliament who have called for change in Westminster's historically male-dominated…

A former South Carolina sheriff's deputy who threw a prison van into floodwaters while taking two women to a mental health center in 2018 and drowned in a backyard after the water rose, was convicted Thursday and sentenced to 18 years in…

Kim Demola died a week after being beaten, according to a 2015 report filed by a federal magistrate judge.In April 2005, a Riverside County Superior Court jury found Ms. Demola and Mr. Bell guilty of first-degree murder. He was sentenced…

Former world darts champion Ted 'The Count' Hankey, 54, has been sentenced to two years in prison after being caught on camera sexually abusing a teenager.BREAKING: Former Darts World Champion Ted Hankey jailed for sexual…

MEXICO CITY - At least 40 inmates were killed in a prison riot in northern Ecuador on Monday, the latest in a series of bloody clashes within the South American nation's violent detention system, officials say.The riots, which began Monday…

A Belarusian court on Friday sentenced a Russian law student whose boyfriend is a major dissident to six years in prison in the colony, almost a year after the country's authorities diverted a commercial flight to Minsk to arrest him.In A…

A New Jersey man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for his role in an online dating scheme in which he and others, posing as U.S. military personnel serving abroad, stole $ 1.75 million from more than 40 victims in four years,…

Katherine Fernandez Randall, a Miami-Dade state attorney, said the case highlighted weaknesses in eyewitness accounts. Mr James' beliefs were based primarily on the testimony of Dorothy Walton, the stepdaughter of Mr McKinnon, who was in…

"I think the military judge here sent a message that he was really taking it seriously," Mr Conway told the newspaper. "If he retires, it could definitely affect his retirement."The victim - who did not want to be named but agreed to…