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Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha and Rhode Island State Police Colonel Darnell Weaver announced Friday that the leader of the Rhode Island chapter of the Pagans Motorcycle Club has been sentenced in Providence County Superior Court to serve 10

A marijuana dispensary owner and his roommate are abducted in the middle of the night at gunpoint from their Newport Beach home by three masked men. Driven to...

The gory tumult of the hanging of convicted murderer John Gordon caused then-Gov. Nelson Dingley Jr.’s Executive Board on July 6, 1875, to vote 4-3 to commute Lowell’s sentence to life in prison. With that, Lowell no longer faced the gallows.

Voting because they have been convicted of either murder or sexual assault. >> reporter: oliver is a convicted felon, she served 20 years in state prison for second-degree murder according to her attorney mark rankin. her attorney told cnn oliver was approached at a bus stop one day on the way to work by someone registering voters and she told them she was a felon. rankin says the person then told oliver she could fill out the form and if she was eligible she would get a voter registration card....

Rep. Bill Pluecker has represented the towns of Appleton, Hope, Warren, and part of Union at the State House for the last four years. This district (now 44) has been reconfigured to include Hope, Union, and Warren. Rep. Pluecker has served as an...

A few weeks ago, I happened to meet a friend of a friend named Manny. He is about my age and he was originally from...

State of California

August to crack down on supposed voter fraud. >> the state of florida has charged and is in the process of arresting 20 individuals across the state for voter fraud. these folks voted illegally in this case and theres going to be other grounds for other prosecutions in the future. they are disqualified from voting because theyve been convicted of either murder or sexual assault. >> reporter: oliver is a convicted felon, she served 20 years in state prison for second-degree murder according to he...

The public “betook themselves to the courthouse to hear one of the last, and most solemn, of the many scenes which the Switzerland road tragedy has afforded,” the Journal reported an hour later. “There they were, promptly on hand to hear the doom which the law should affix to the guilt it had already decided.”

Two California inmates were killed in separate prison attacks. They were serving life sentences for first-degree murder and kidnapping that resulted in death.