Petty Officer Jermiah Copeland strangled Petty Officer Angelina Resendiz to death after a disagreement at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia.

PENNSYLVANIA (WTAJ) — An Allegheny County man was sentenced to years in prison after he was convicted of threatening a public official and lying to the FBI. Edward Arthur Owens Jr., 30, was sentenced by Senior United States District Judge Nora Barry Fischer to two and a half years after he threatened a local public

Ryan Routh, the man convicted of attempting to assassinate President Trump at his Florida golf course in 2024, has been sentenced to life in prison. The sentence came down Wednesday during a federal court hearing. It was presided over by Judge Aileen ...

Second look laws, which enable judges to review and potentially modify lengthy prison sentences, are becoming increasingly prevalent. At least 25 states, the District of Columbia, and the federal government have adopted some form of what is also called sentencing review,

A Penrose funeral home owner who stashed 189 decomposing bodies in a building over four years and gave grieving families fake ashes was sentenced to 40 years in state prison on Friday on corpse abuse charges. Jon Hallford owned Return to Nature Funeral ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — Advocates, activists, Democratic lawmakers, and families of incarcerated New Yorkers gathered at the State Capitol on Monday to call for passage of three criminal justice bills. They said reforms would fix outdated sentencing ...

A judge on Wednesday sentenced a former Colorado School of Mines professor to 13 years in prison after he pleaded guilty in the 2024 death of a Golden police officer. Officer Evan Dunn was killed when a vehicle driven by Stephen Geer hit him while he was ...

A Texas teenager who fatally stabbed a 17-year-old track athlete from a rival team during a competition was convicted of murder Tuesday in a trial that drew attention far beyond the booming Dallas suburb where the two students attended different high schools.