A former substitute school teacher who allegedly had a sexual encounter with a student in a Minnesota classroom earlier this year is the subject of a nationwide search, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported Friday. Caitlin Thao admitted to a social worker at a mental health facility that she had a sexual encounter with a 17-year-old boy, […]
In America, a filmmaker who makes it big is honored. In Iran, they get prison. Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has left Iran and secretly traveled to Europe after his latest film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” was accepted by the Cannes Film Festival, according to Variety. “We are very happy and much relieved that […]
MOSCOW — Kazakhstan’s Supreme Court on Monday convicted a former government official of torturing and murdering his wife and sentenced him to 24 years in prison in a case that has gripped the Central Asian nation. During the trial of Kuandyk Bishimbayev, Kazakhstan’s former economy minister, over the death of his wife, Saltanat Nukenova, thousands […]
Brittney Griner continues her efforts to settle into a normal routine following her release from a Russian prison 17 months ago. Life isn’t what it once was for the perennial WNBA All-Star. The 6-foot-8 center looks different and has different priorities. Gone are her familiar dreadlocks that couldn’t be maintained during her incarceration. She regularly […]
“We haven’t done anything wrong! Who would harm us?” 88-year-old Eva Edl recalls her mother saying as a result of communist oppression in post-World War II Yugoslavia. “Then our whole people was destroyed,” Edl said. “We hadn’t done anything wrong, as far as I know.” Edl is like so many who escaped to America to […]
A Pennsylvania nurse who administered lethal or potentially lethal doses of insulin to numerous patients pleaded guilty to three counts of murder and other charges Thursday and was sentenced to life in prison. Heather Pressdee, 41, was given three consecutive life sentences and another consecutive term of 380-760 years behind bars during a hearing in […]
A climate activist who defaced an exhibit last year at the National Gallery of Art in Washington will spend 60 days in prison. Joanna Smith, 54, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced on Friday, according to a Justice Department news release. On April 27, Smith and a fellow protester smeared red and black paint on […]
VENICE — Venice has always been a place of contrasts, of breathtaking beauty and devastating fragility, where history, religion, art and nature have collided over the centuries to produce an otherworldly gem of a city. But even for a place that prides itself on its culture of unusual encounters, Pope Francis’ visit Sunday stood out. […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer said Saturday that the onetime movie mogul has been hospitalized for a battery of tests after his return to New York City following an appeals court ruling nullifying his 2020 rape conviction. Attorney Arthur Aidala said Weinstein was moved to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan after his arrival on […]
Travelers to the Turks and Caicos Islands are finding that very small things in their luggage can result in very long prison sentences. Tyler Wenrich, 30, of Virginia, was arrested April 20 after authorities said they found two bullets in his backpack as he was getting ready to leave, according to CBS. All guns and […]
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