Head of human smuggling plot gets 10 years after family of 4 froze to death on US-Canada border
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. -- More than three years after a family of four from India froze to death while trying ...
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Trump’s clash with the courts raises prospect of showdown over separation of powers
DENVER -- Tucked deep in the thousand-plus pages of the multitrillion-dollar budget bill making its way through the Republican-controlled U.S. ...
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Ex-FDNY chief gets 3 years for taking bribes to fast-track safety inspections
NEW YORK -- A former New York City Fire Department chief was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday for ...
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Kansas governor wants board to reconsider parole granted to a state trooper’s convicted killer
TOPEKA, Kan. -- A man convicted of killing a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper in 1978 has been granted parole after ...
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Texas man convicted of threatening to lynch Nashville DA
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A Texas man associated with a neo-Nazi group was convicted on Wednesday of posting threats to lynch ...
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Jury begins deliberations in murder trial of former Michigan police officer
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Jurors began deliberations Monday over whether a former Michigan police officer could have reasonably feared that ...
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Charge against former Wisconsin warden in inmate deaths is reduced to a misdemeanor
JUNEAU, Wis. -- Prosecutors have reduced a felony misconduct charge against a former Wisconsin prison warden implicated in two inmate ...
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A Detroit nonprofit’s former finance chief gets 19 years for $40 million theft
DETROIT -- A former executive at a major Detroit nonprofit was sentenced Thursday to 19 years in prison for stealing ...
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Judge to allow ‘bushy eyebrows’ testimony in Bryan Kohberger’s quadruple murder trial
BOISE, Idaho -- A judge says a former roommate of four University of Idaho students who were killed in 2022 ...
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Former Colorado deputy gets 3 years in prison for fatally shooting man who called for help
DENVER -- A former Colorado sheriff’s deputy convicted of killing a 22-year-old man in distress who called 911 for help ...
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