Prosecutors asked a court to convict the captain of the Costa Concordia and sentence him to 26 years in prison Monday for the 2012 shipwreck off Tuscany that killed 32 people, saying the term is hardly excessive given the death …
A suburban Philadelphia, Pa., woman who pleaded guilty to forging her stepson’s signature on a $150,000 insurance check has been sentenced to six to 23 months in prison. Forty-eight-year-old Eleanor Leistrum of Bristol Township pleaded guilty in Bucks County in …
A New Jersey man has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and ordered to pay over $326,000 in restitution for running an interstate scrap metal scam through a supposed recycling company he registered in Montana. The U.S. Attorney’s …
A court in the Siberian city of Perm has convicted seven people in connection with a nightclub fire that killed 156, sentencing them to prison terms of four to nearly 10 years. The December 2009 fire broke out when a …
A 51-year-old York woman has been given one to two years in prison for attempted insurance fraud. Online court records say Susan Schulz was sentenced last week. She’d pleaded no contest in February after making a deal with prosecutors. The …
An Omaha, Neb., man has been given four to 12 years in prison for stealing copper wire from pivot irrigation systems in Dodge County. The Fremont Tribune reports that 42-year-old Scott Mohr was sentenced on Thursday in Dodge County District …
Federal prosecutors say a judge has sentenced a Flint-area podiatrist to four years, seven months in prison for his role in a $1.6 million fraudulent medical billing scheme. U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade says Richard A. Behnan of Fenton was sentenced …
A Colorado man suspected of leading a ring of thieves who broke into cars at funerals, churches, schools and other places in Weld County has been sentenced to 36 years in prison. The district attorney says 31-year-old Ernesto Castanuela Jr. …
A 34-year-old Texas man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for setting a fire at a home he didn’t know had video surveillance. Prosecutors say Mario Guadalupe Meza wasn’t aware that his coming and going from the home …
A North Texas man has been sentenced to 80 years in prison for his ninth driving while intoxicated conviction. A jury in Fort Worth sentenced 50-year-old Miguel Medrano in the 2010 case. Prosecutors say Medrano had been drinking at a …