Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, a onetime American ally, was convicted in a New York court Friday of helping drug traffickers send tons of cocaine to the United States in exchange for hefty bribes that fueled his political career. The verdict underscored the extent to which narcotics gangs have penetrated some Latin American governments. … Read more
A woman stabbed a convicted sex offender to death over the weekend as police said the felon attempted to rape her inside a Louisiana business in broad daylight. The attack took place at a laundromat in Lacombe, a small, rural community about a 50-mile drive northeast of New Orleans. The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office … Read more
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary’s conservative president resigned Saturday amid public outcry over a pardon she granted to a man convicted as an accomplice in a child sexual abuse case, a decision that unleashed an unprecedented political scandal for the long-serving nationalist government. Katalin Novák, 46, announced in a televised message that she would step down … Read more
A man accused of diverting a national park river to ease boat access to Lake Michigan has been convicted of two misdemeanors. Andrew Howard of Frankfort, Michigan, was found guilty of tampering and vandalism Wednesday during a brief trial in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge Ray Kent. In August 2022, a National Park Service ranger … Read more
FILE – A lengthy stretch of sandy Lake Michigan beach is deserted on a sunny afternoon, June 29, 2011, at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Mich. On Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024, Andrew Howard, who is accused of using a shovel to divert a river within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, was convicted of two … Read more
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A former top prosecutor for the city of Baltimore was convicted Tuesday on one count of mortgage fraud, concluding a lengthy criminal trial in which Marilyn Mosby testified she unwittingly made false statements on loan applications to buy two Florida vacation homes. The jury announced a split verdict Tuesday evening after … Read more
ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani court on Saturday convicted and sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife to seven years in prison on a charge that their 2018 marriage violated the law, officials and a defense lawyer said. The verdict follows another case in which Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, were sentenced to … Read more
Donald Trump reportedly believes he will be convicted of attempting to overturn the result of the 2020 election in a trial later this year. The former president expects a jury in Washington DC will find him guilty of conspiring to “defraud the American people” on four charges that carry a maximum sentence of 20 years … Read more
The suspect in an alkali attack in south London was convicted of a sex offence in 2018 and was later granted asylum. Police are looking for Abdul Shakoor Ezedi, 35, who was last seen at a Tesco shop in north London on Wednesday evening. He was convicted of “sexual assault/exposure” in 2018, before being granted … Read more
HONG KONG — A Hong Kong court on Thursday convicted four people for rioting over the storming of the city’s legislative council building at the height of the anti-government protests more than four years ago. The break-in on July 1 in 2019 — the 22nd anniversary of the former British colony’s return to China – … Read more