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ADVERTISEMENT A Russian court has reduced the prison sentence of a US soldier who was convicted last year of theft and making threats of murder, state media reported on Monday, in the latest signal of thawing relations between Washington and Moscow. US Staff Sergeant Gordon Black was sentenced by a court in the port city […]
An 86-year-old Missouri man who admitted to shooting a Black teenager who mistakenly rang his doorbell has died before his sentencing, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Andrew Lester pleaded guilty last Friday to felony assault in connection with the April 2023 shooting of then-16-year-old Ralph Yarl. Yarl, who survived gunshot wounds to the head and arm, has […]
An 86-year-old Missouri man who admitted to shooting a Black teenager who mistakenly rang his doorbell has died before his sentencing, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Andrew Lester pleaded guilty last Friday to felony assault in connection with the April 2023 shooting of then-16-year-old Ralph Yarl. Yarl, who survived gunshot wounds to the head and arm, has […]
A New York judge on Friday upheld President-elect Donald Trump’s conviction in his hush money criminal case and scheduled his sentencing for January 10. New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said Trump, who is 78, may appear at his sentencing in person or virtually. Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of . . .
Universities in the United States have been especially repressive over the past year. Several like Columbia University and New York University have redefined protests against the state of Israel and its founding ideology Zionism as acts of anti-Semitism.
US rapper Young Thug was released from jail Thursday evening after pleading guilty to gang, drug and gun charges, in a dramatic twist that ended the longest criminal trial in Georgia history. The 33-year-old Grammy winner, born Jeffery Lamar Williams, has spent more than 900 days behind bars since his arrest on racketeering and gang-related […]
Farmerville, Louisiana AP  — A Louisiana state trooper pleaded no contest Monday to significantly reduced charges that spare him jail time in the deadly 2019 arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene, the first conviction of any kind in a prolonged police brutality case that once prompted national outrage.
A former University of Kentucky student caught on camera assaulting a black student worker while repeatedly calling her the n-word will spend a year in jail that will be served out in protective custody, a judge ruled last week. Â Sophia Rosing was hit with a 12-month prison term after pleading guilty to . . […]
For decades in the US, the incarceration rate for African Americans has been much higher than for whites, a racial disparity the US Attorney General Eric Holder has described as “shameful”. In part to address this, Mr Holder unveiled a policy shift, external that will mean the US locks up fewer people convicted of non-violent, […]
Sandra Hemme, a 64-year-old Missouri woman with a history of mental illness, was recently declared innocent of a murder she spent over four decades in prison for. The judge ruled her innocence “clear and convincing,” but she hasn’t been released yet. Prosecutors are appealing the decision and want Hemme to stay behind bars. They argue […]