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A former Louisiana congressman who was sentenced to 13 years in prison on bribery charges will be allowed to remain free on bond while he appeals his conviction.
The founder of a Tibetan literary Web site was sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of disclosing state secrets, an overseas monitoring group said Tuesday.
Prosecutors called a former Louisiana congressman's corruption the most extensive in the history of Congress. His punishment delivered a similar message.
A former top NASA official was sentenced Friday to three years probation, six months of electronic monitoring and a $2,500 fine for steering contract money to a private client.
A federal judge sentenced an al-Qaida sleeper agent to a relatively light eight years in prison Thursday because the man received what the judge called "unacceptable" treatment in a U.S. Navy brig.
A 53-year-old North Carolina man is facing 14 years in prison for his part in a scheme which led investors to hand over more than $11 million to his company.
Tom Ridge, former U.S. Homeland Security secretary and a former Pennsylvania governor, wrote a letter requesting leniency for an Erie, Pa., man who assaulted his ex-girlfriend's daughter.
A son of the late Chicago newspaper columnist Mike Royko was sentenced Tuesday to 30 months in federal prison for attempted bank robbery.
A man accused in a cross-country killing spree was sentenced to death Thursday for the slaying of two Texas teenage girls.
The former president and chief operating officer of the online job services company Monster Worldwide has been sentenced in New York to two years in prison for stock options fraud.
A U.S. man who became an al-Qaida terrorist while attending college in Saudi Arabia and plotted to assassinate then-President George W. Bush was defiant Monday as he was sentenced to life in prison.
A man who spent 5 1/2 years in solitary confinement before pleading guilty to conspiring to help al-Qaida will spend almost another year in federal custody and then be deported to Canada.
A former HealthSouth Corp. finance chief has been ordered to spend three months in federal prison for his role in the $2.6 billion financial fraud that nearly wrecked the company.
Two New Jersey men whose escape from jail led to the suicide of a corrections officer and spurred comparisons to the movie "The Shawshank Redemption" were given maximum prison sentences Friday by a judge who rejected their attorneys' pleas for leniency.
Financier Bernard Madoff will not be ordered to pay restitution at his sentencing next week, a judge said Wednesday, citing the complexity of the multibillion-dollar fraud.
A judge on Monday will consider whether former NBA star Jayson Williams should be sentenced for covering up a fatal shooting at his mansion in 2002, given Williams' recent erratic behavior, including an assault arrest in North Carolina.
A judge should not delay Bernard Madoff's sentencing even though investigators have yet to determine how much money investors lost in the disgraced financier's multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, prosecutors said.
A judge in Milwaukee has sentenced a 21-year-old woman to 20 years in prison for helping a new boyfriend kidnap and kill a college student for his car.
A former New York City police officer convicted of shooting an unarmed man to death while off duty has been sentenced to one to three years in prison.
Federal prosecutors in Maine say a Florida woman has been sentenced after fraudulently receiving nearly $33,000 from the government.
A former New Jersey funeral director has been sentenced to five years in prison for his role in a ring that illegally harvested body parts.
The owner of a Long Island titanium factory has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for storing 12 tons of corrosive hazardous waste on his property, resulting in a mess prosecutors say looked like a scene from a horror movie.
A federal judge says former Orange County Sheriff Michael Carona cannot remain free on bail while he appeals a conviction on a felony count of witness tampering.
The sentencing of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff has been postponed until June 29.
A former sheriff in Southern California has appealed his conviction and 5 1/2-year sentence for felony witness tampering.
A Senate Bill to End Cocaine Sentencing Disparity Under current law, possession of five grams of crack cocaine (roughly the weight of two sugar cubes) triggers a mandatory minimum five-year prison sentence, while trafficking 500 grams (approximately one pound) of powder cocaine triggers the same sentence.
Age Is a Factor in Sentencing, but the Degree Varies Widely In a case involving an 87-year-old man convicted of racketeering, a federal judge in Manhattan rejected a plea for leniency last year, giving the man a five-year sentence. The judge in this case had a special perspective: He was 84 himself.
Dad faces prison for boy's tattooEnrique Gonzalez wanted his 7-year-old son to have a gang tattoo, like the many that adorn his own body. About that there is no dispute.
Man who stole, ate hot dog gets 18 monthsA Massachusetts man who stole a hot dog from another man sitting under a tree in a park has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.
Teen girl sentenced to life for brutal murder A Putnam County teenager has been sentenced to a mandatory life prison term for the slaying of a 66-year-old man last year so she could run away with her boyfriend.
Stalker who paralyzed woman to be sentenced Christine Kent, devout Christian, one-time model, ski enthusiast, can no longer feel her legs -- but the pain persists.
Update: Man sentenced to life in prison for toddler's death - St. Petersburg TimesA Hillsborough Circuit judge sentenced Derrick McNeal to life in prison today for trying to run over his ex-girlfriend and crushing to death a 2-year-old boy who got in the way.
Twins could become nation's first on death row Orlando identical twins Dante and Donte Hall, accused partners in a deadly robbery three years ago in Lake County, could both land on death row, a fate that would make them doubly unique.
Questions arise on monitoring of sex offenders Every April 5 for the past 10 years, Phillip Garrido registered on his birthday with the Contra Costa Sheriff's Office as a convicted sex offender.
Bank robber: I did it to get away from my wifeA Pennsylvania man said he robbed a bank in 2007 to go to jail and get away from his overbearing wife.
Acquitted 'Liberty City 7' member talks about terrorism case A man acquitted in the so-called "Liberty City Seven" case says when the group took a pledge to al-Qaida, "nobody had their hearts in it," according to a newspaper interview published Sunday.
Man gets Life for killing his grandmaA South Florida man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his grandmother by setting her house on fire in a scheme to collect insurance money.
MySpace crime: Man is sentenced for preying on minors A former information technology specialist with the Department of Veteran Affairs who preyed on teenage girls over the Internet on MySpace has been sentenced to 12 years in prison, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Police official pleads guilty to sex with teenA former central Florida police official has pleaded guilty to charges of having sex with a 16-year-old girl.
Our DA's Are All on the Take By Phillip Reynes | Colorado Independent Media CenterColorado like so many states is thinking of sentencing reform. Fear and lies it would seem is all the right wing and the republicans have no matter the issue. There not just the party of no there the party of special intrests and lies!
Boyfriend gets 12 years in child's beating deathA man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison in a beating that killed an Ohio preschool boy.
1st Woman convicted for dog fighting in the United States under new lawsA Hillsborough County woman Celena was found guilty Tuesday of five counts of dog fighting and faces up to five years for each count according to Hillsborough County Animal Services.
Teen's Life Sentence stirs fierce debateWhile other young men were heading to college or finding their first jobs, Terrance Graham entered a state prison at the age of 19 where he will spend the rest of his life
Man who killed teen commits suicide in prisonAn Ohio man convicted of killing his 15-year-old neighbor because he walked on the man's well-kept lawn has committed suicide in prison.
Jury sentences man to life in Arizona shootingsA jury sentenced a man to life in prison Wednesday for his role in a series of random nighttime shootings that unnerved metropolitan Phoenix in 2005 and 2006.
Kickback scheme lands ICE agent in jailA federal undercover agent was sentenced to two years in prison on Monday after pleading guilty to shaking down government informants for thousands of dollars while he was infiltrating an Ecuadorean-Chinese smuggling operation.
Record number of `lifers' in U.S. prisons, study findsA record number of criminals are serving life prison sentences, and in Florida, two of them are juveniles with their cases under review by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Spring Hill man gets 25 years for child pornography - St. Petersburg TimesIn a nearly empty courtroom, Richard Lamerton stood without emotion as the judge prepared to announce his sentence Friday. He watched as his teary-eyed brother, Robert Lamerton, read a letter to the judge. "My brother is not a bad man, your honor," he said.
Father of four pleads for mercy at sentencing for kidnapping and rape George Olmo held a photograph of his four young children while he begged for compassion Friday at his sentencing hearing in Hernando County Circuit Court.
Doctor faces jail over Internet pharmacy scamA Virginia doctor has pleaded guilty to writing tens of thousands of prescriptions for muscle relaxants and other drugs over the Internet to patients he'd never examined.
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