Category: Crime and Judiciary

Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard scientist who was arrested last month on a federal smuggling charge, was released Wednesday from federal custody following a detention hearing in Boston. Petrova, a Russian citizen, was taken into custody in May after prosecutors in Massachusetts accused her of smuggling frog embryos into the United States without properly declaring them....

 A teenage girl with a rare form of epilepsy won a unanimous Supreme Court ruling on Thursday that’s expected to make it easier for families of children with disabilities to sue schools over access to education. The girl’s family says that her Minnesota school district didn’t do enough to make sure she has the disability accommodations she...

 A Colorado funeral homeowner who pleaded guilty to leaving a woman’s corpse in the back of a hearse for over a year and improperly stashing the cremated remains of at least 30 people has been sentenced to 18 months in prison, the Denver District Attorney’s Office announced. Miles Harford, 34, pleaded guilty in April to one felony count of abuse of...

43-year-old Emily Nutley battled tears in court while she was to three years in prison for sexual intimacy with a 17-year-old student in Ohio. Nutley was the director of academic services at a private all-boys high school in Cincinnati, where she worked for 18 years. The accused said she had already lost her husband, home,...

Oklahoma prepared to execute a man Thursday whose transfer to state custody was expedited by the Trump administration. John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, is set to receive a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. Hanson was sentenced to die after he was convicted of carjacking, kidnapping and killing a Tulsa woman in 1999. Hanson, whose...

The United State Vice President JD Vance has slammed California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass over the riot in the state. Newsom had in one of his posts on X blamed president Trump for inflaming the protest, claiming that he doesn’t care for the people but just want to cause chaos...

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 Another 2,000 National Guard troops along with 700 Marines are headed to Los Angeles on orders Monday from President Donald Trump, escalating a military presence local officials and Gov. Gavin Newsom don’t want and the police chief says creates logistical challenges for safely handling protests. An initial 2,000 Guard troops ordered by Trump started arriving Sunday,...

A South Korean court has fined a woman for sexual misconduct after she pulled down a colleague’s trousers – and his underwear, by accident – in front of their colleagues, local media reported. On top of the 2.8 million won ($2,100; £1,500) fine, the woman in her 50s has also been ordered to complete eight...