Arizona Shooting & The 2nd Amendment
In 2008, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment to the Constitution protects the right of individuals to keep and bear arms for the purpose of self-defense. On Saturday morning, January 8, 2011, 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner, armed with a 9-millimeter Glock semi-automatic pistol and 90 rounds of ammunition, opened fire on [...]
Court Throws Out Death Penalty for Slayer of Three
The Arkansas Supreme Court has ordered a new sentencing for a death row inmate convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young children around the holidays in 2006. Justices on Thursday upheld James Aaron Miller’s murder conviction but ordered that he be resentenced. Miller was convicted of killing Bridgette Barr, 5-year-old Sydney Barr and [...]
Guilty Plea Date Set for Ponzi Scheme Case
A judge has set a Jan. 27 date for a disbarred South Florida lawyer to plead guilty to charges stemming from what authorities call a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme. The date was set at a hearing Wednesday after Scott Rothstein’s attorney announced he will plead guilty. Rothstein had initially pleaded not guilty to racketeering, fraud [...]
Missouri Officer Faces Child Sex Charges
A Boy Scout leader who is also the top police officer in the Missouri town of Fredericktown is facing statutory sodomy charges for allegedly having sex with children. The Missouri State Highway Patrol arrested 42-year-old Kenneth Tomlinson II on Tuesday. Details about the victims weren’t immediately available. Tomlinson is jailed on $100,000 cash-only bond in [...]
Woman Charged with Drowning Grandson
A 71-year-old German woman has been charged with drowning her 5-year-old grandson in a bathtub while vacationing in the Florida Panhandle. Marianne Bordt of Nufringen, Germany, was being held Tuesday at the Franklin County Jail in Eastpoint. She is charged with first-degree murder in the death Monday of Camden Hiers of Roswell, Ga., on St. [...]
Defendant Pleads Not Guilty in Mass. Arson Case
A 25-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to setting a fire at a western Massachusetts home that killed two of his neighbors. It was one of nine fires set within hours of one another in the community of Northampton. Anthony P. Baye was ordered held without bail Tuesday at his arraignment on two counts of [...]
Two Teens Charged in Ohio Slaying
Two Missouri teens have been charged in the death of an Ohio man whose body was found in the refrigerated compartment of a tractor-trailer. Six other people also have been charged in the death of 20-year-old James William Boyd McNeely, including the trucker in whose rig the body was found. Missouri officials wouldn’t say whether [...]
DeLaughter to Report to Federal Prison
Bobby DeLaughter, a former judge and prosecutor who helped convict the killer of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, was expected to report to prison Monday for lying to FBI agents investigating judicial corruption. In July, DeLaughter stepped down as a Hinds County circuit judge and pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice. The Clarion Ledger reported [...]
Man Pleads Guilty to 1982 Murder
A Vermont man has admitted to killing an 18-year-old girl in 1982 in a plea deal with prosecutors. Forty-seven-year-old Theodore Caron of Barre was arrested in February in the strangulation death of Pamela Brown. A DNA sampled linked Caron to the slaying. Caron initially pleaded innocent to first-degree murder. On Wednesday, he pleaded guilty to [...]
Bait Farmer Sentenced in Illegal Importation Case
A Wisconsin bait farming business that pleaded guilty to illegally importing fish has been sentenced to probation. Gollon Bait & Fish Farm was sentenced Wednesday to three years probation, fined $6,000 and ordered to pay the cost of additional monitoring of the health of bait fish by U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb. The business pleaded [...]