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A municipal ordinance that would compel the two pregnancy resource centers (PRCs) in Worcester, Massachusetts, to discuss abortion options has been dropped after the city solicitor and the city manager agreed the measure would be unenforceable.
The committee unanimously endorsed a proposal to rename Federal Square Plaza as Francis R. Carroll Plaza.
Ricardo Martinelli was president of Panama from 2009 to 2014. He was found guilty of money laundering in the purchase of a publishing group with public funds in 2010. The 71-year-old must also pay a fine of 19 million dollars. Martinelli rejects the allegations and can still appeal the sentence. The billionaire and supermarket magnate won the presidential election in 2009 with the promise to take action against rampant corruption in the country. But after his tenure, the Panamanian judiciary investigated numerous scandals in which he was involved.
Ricardo Martinelli was sentenced to to more than 10 years in prison and ordered to pay a $19.2 million fine. If the conviction is upheld, he will be barred from competing in next year's presidential race. ...
PANAMA CITY—Former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli was sentenced Tuesday to more than 10 years in prison for money laundering. Martinelli, 71, had been trying to mount a political comeback in next year’s general elections, but a judge sentenced him to 128 months in prison in a case that revolved around…