Judge orders Va. man to live in his neglected home

A Richmond man will have to live more than a month in one of his neglected rental houses as punishment for failing to maintain his properties. Oliver Lawrence was sentenced Monday to 30 days in jail, followed by 40 days in home incarceration at a small, single-story house owned by his company, Bayou Properties. He also was fined more than $177,000.

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Pa. woman, daughter hold signs admitting theft

In exchange for no jail time, a woman and her adult daughter have agreed to stand outside a Pennsylvania courthouse holding signs saying they stole a gift card from a 9-year-old girl on her birthday.

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Prison time, felony charges rare for relic looters

Stepping into the afternoon sun last month, Jeanne Redd and her daughter Jericca walked away from a federal courthouse with probation papers — not prison time — for their role in the theft and illegal trafficking of Indian artifacts.

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Ohio judge orders shoplifters to wear T-shirts

A northwest Ohio judge has added neon green T-shirts to his sentencing repertoire. Western District Court Judge Jeff Robinson in Fulton County is requiring some defendants to wear shirts announcing "I'm a thief" while they perform court-ordered community service.

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Malaysia teacher makes student smoke to punish him

A Malaysian teacher forced a student to smoke 42 cigarettes for four hours as punishment after a cigarette and lighter were found in his locker, a news report said Thursday.

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Boy, 7, after joyride: ‘Dad, the cops are outside!’

Most kids who want to get out of going to church claim a stomachache or a fever — but not Preston Scarbrough. Like a modern-day Huckleberry Finn taking a joyride down the Mississippi on a raft, the 7-year-old Utah boy took a jaunt down the streets around his home.

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Court won't hear appeal from man convicted of rape

The Supreme Court won't hear the latest appeal from a man convicted in the rape and killing of a 15-year-old Kansas City girl.

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Indian teacher investigated for student's death

An 11-year-old girl allegedly abused by her teacher for failing to answer questions in class died in a hospital in the Indian capital Friday, police and news reports said.

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NYC court: Big city guns can equal stiff sentence

Federal judges can give harsher penalties to people who help bring illegal guns to big cities, a federal appeals court decided Thursday.

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Study finds minorities more likely to be paddled

Paddlings, swats, licks. A quarter of a million schoolchildren got them last year — and blacks, American Indians and kids with disabilities got a disproportionate share of the punishment, according to a study by a human rights group.

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Austria case revives European debate on light prison terms

Police say Josef Fritzl left a lot of human wreckage in his wake: the daughter he imprisoned and raped for 24 years, the seven children he fathered with her and the wife whose life he shattered.

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Australian Gets 3 Years in Laser Assault

An Australian man was sentenced Tuesday to nearly three years in jail for shining a laser pointer at a police helicopter and temporarily blinding the pilot.

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Prison Calls It Food, Inmates Disagree

When shooting suspect Christopher Williams acted up in prison, he was given nutraloaf — a mixture of cubed whole wheat bread, nondairy cheese, raw carrots, spinach, seedless raisins, beans, vegetable oil, tomato paste, powdered milk and dehydrated potato flakes.

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General Faces Demotion in Tillman Case

Army Secretary Pete Geren is expected to recommend demoting a retired three-star general for his role in providing misleading information to investigators about the friendly-fire shooting of Pat Tillman in Afghanistan, military officials say.

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Mom Makes Daughter Wear Her Offenses

A Tennessee mother fed up with her daughter's misbehavior took an unusual tack in for latest punishment, making her stand on a busy street corner with an attention-getting sign.

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Police: Mom Forced Naked Boy Into Cold

A mother accused of forcing her 10-year-old son to stand naked in subfreezing temperatures outside his home as punishment was arrested and charged with child endangerment, police said.

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Wis. Teen Says Bedroom Wasn't Locked

A 13-year-old girl testified Tuesday that her parents ordered her to stay in her sometimes cold, sparsely furnished bedroom for months as punishment for bad behavior, but said they never locked the door.

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Judge Makes Reluctant Juror Sit on Bench

Legal experts are questioning the legitimacy of a punishment levied by a federal judge after a suburban Detroit man balked at serving on a grand jury.

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Punching Horse May Land Man in Deep Doodoo

A 24-year-old man could be shoveling horse manure as part of his punishment for punching a police horse.

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A girl of 12 kept a diary of the mental and physical torture she suffered at the hands of her mother, who believed in the 'African way', a court heard yesterday. The youngster wrote about the sadistic punishment rituals her mother, a former banker, subjected her to.

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I did an entire college paper on automatism in the 80s. It was considered a fairly legitimate, if not radical defense, even then.

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PLACERVILLE, Calif. -- A 15-year-old girl accused of killing her mother in El Dorado Hills suffered physical abuse, according to court testimony on Thursday.

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PLACERVILLE, Calif. -- A judge on Tuesday ruled that a teenage girl accused of taking part in her mother's slaying is unfit to be tried in the juvenile justice system.

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GERMANTOWN, Wis. -- Police found the body of a 14-year-old boy in a vehicle parked at a Walmart in Germantown. Police said the boy's 37-year-old stepfather drove from Grafton to the Germantown WalMart with a plan.

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GREENVILLE, S.C. -- The man who slammed his Maserati through a home, killing the man inside, entered a guilty plea -- and ended up with no jail time.

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NICHOLS HILLS, Okla. -- A metro doctor has been arrested on suspicion of killing his 9-year-old son, police said.

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News broke this morning that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo detainees will be tried in federal court in New York.

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An Ugly Pendulum: On the Neccesary Evil of the Death Penalty

In common usage, people speak of what they "need" to do. It is used as a superlative to "want" and is often said as if that declaration alone will be sufficient to end the discussion, as if the statement alone makes it axiomatic and a universal constant.

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NEW ORLEANS -- New Orleans Saints safety Roman Harper told WDSU Tuesday he had mixed feelings about the execution of a serial killer who shot his aunt more than seven years ago.

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BATES CITY, Mo. -- Five family members were arrested on Tuesday in connection with child sex crimes, authorities said.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The woman accused in a plot to extort $10 million from Rick Pitino was forced to move from her home Tuesday. Karen Sypher said she was evicted on the same day her estranged husband signed the home over to her.

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JARRATT, Va. — John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind behind the sniper attacks that left 10 dead, was executed Tuesday as relatives of the victims watched, reliving the killing spree that terrorized the Washington, D.C., area for three weeks in October 2002.

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Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) and six other representatives introduced a bill last week that would allow death row inmates to have the opportunity to present newly discovered evidence of innocence.

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CLARK COUNTY, Ind. -- Monday, jurors heard from two mothers whose 12-year-old sons said they were sexually abused by a 33-year-old Clark County, Ind., woman.

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TRACY, Calif. -- Four people accused of torturing a captive teenager at a Tracy home will be in court today to challenge the indictment against them.

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SELLERSBURG, Ind. -- A 56-year-old man, brutally assaulted with a hammer, lived to tell the story. Meanwhile, police are searching for the man they said is still in the area and still dangerous.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Police are trying to solve a slaying after a man said he discovered a body in suitcase.

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STOCKTON, Calif. -- The so-called I-5 Strangler was sentenced Thursday to six consecutive life sentences after pleading guilty to six Northern California killings in an effort to avoid the death penalty.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A Louisville man has pleaded guilty to robbing a rural Indiana bank at gunpoint, and police say he could have pulled it off if not for a minor mistake.

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CLARK COUNTY, Ind. -- A woman charged with having sex with two 12-year-old boys is now on trial.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A father and mother are accused of child endangerment and drug possession after their two young daughters were found Monday night crying and wandering with no shirts in a Sacramento apartment complex, police said.

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MILWAUKEE -- A Milwaukee firefighter is accused of drugging his wife's tea, and police arrested him after the couple's 3-year-old drank the allegedly tainted drink.

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MT. AIRY, N.C. -- A man has been arrested and charged in connection with a shooting Mount Airy police said may be the largest mass killing in the city's history.

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MENDOTA, Calif. -- Authorities say the body of a missing 4-year-old California boy was found in the clothes dryer of a neighbor's home and a 14-year-old boy from the house in Mendota has been arrested on suspicion of the killing.

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