Disgraced former professional basketball referee Tim Donaghy was sentenced today to a little over a year in prison after pleading guilty last year in a gambling scheme.
Corrected: After a five-year legal saga – in which he lost his job as one of Silicon Valley’s top investment bankers, was convicted of obstruction of justice on charges that…
An anonymous donor who has offered to post bail for a jailed California businessman can’t do so unless he’s willing to reveal his name, a federal judge says.
It took 64 years, and only two of 28 African-American soldiers wrongfully convicted of rioting charges connected with the lynching of an Italian prisoner of war in 1944, in the…
A convicted drug dealer who was accused but acquitted of most charges in the 1979 assassination of a federal judge has died. Jamiel Alexander “Jimmy” Chagra, 63, died Friday of…
Hawaii has developed an innovative probation program that seems to be significantly more effective than the standard approach in scaring offenders straight.
Dubbed “flash incarceration,” it focuses on immediate, short-term…
A trio whose $8 million Ohio armored car heist inspired a local lawyer to pen the song “Dumb as Dillon” are now facing the music for their crime, to which…
Updated: So-called spam king Robert Soloway was sentenced this week to 47 months in prison by a federal judge in Seattle, for sending out a slew of fraudulent e-mail messages…
Slavery officially ended in 1865. But it effectively continued until after World War II in some southern states, in which African-American men were routinely tried and convicted on petty charges…
A disgraced Olympic champion sprinter who lost her five gold medals due to her eventually admitted use of performance-enhancing steroids is seeking a pardon or a commutation of her six-month…
A troubled Ohio teenager has been sentenced to a one-year prison term for sending a threatening letter to a Licking County juvenile judge last year punctuated with his own blood.
Conditions at a Chicago jail run by Cook County are so substandard that prisoners are at risk of physical abuse and even death, a federal prosecutor and the Department of…
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