'Back-from-dead' canoeist and wife to stay in jail
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A British man who re-appeared five years after being presumed dead in a canoeing accident and his wife were remanded in custody Friday pending trials for fraud.
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By REX SPRINGSTON  Two men who had to get rid of some concrete waste at Buggs Island Lake took the easy way out. They dumped it in the water.  Now, they face an April 30 sentencing after pleading guilty to a federal crime.  One of the men, Loch L.
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A New York couple accused of keeping two Indonesian women as slaves for more than four years were ordered jailed by a federal judge on Thursday after prosecutors argued they might flee the United States.
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SELMER, Tenn. | A woman who killed her preacher husband with a shotgun blast to the back as he lay in bed was sentenced Friday to three years in prison, but with time served could be released on probation in a little more than two months.
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WALKERTON, ONT. - Stan Koebel was sentenced Monday to one year in jail for his role in the tainted water tragedy that killed seven people in Walkerton more than four years ago.
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Vili Fualaau, who married his former sixth-grade teacher Mary Kay Letourneau, was sentenced Friday in Municipal Court to a year in jail for drunken driving, with the time suspended except for one day.
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An American man convicted of killing his former girlfriend is being held in jail illegally after a judge failed to show up for an afternoon meeting to release him, Eric Volz's lawyer said.
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'Missing' canoeist John Darwin is been denied police bail and will remain in custody until 11 January.
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The sentences have been handed out after two brothers pleaded guilty in the Walkerton water disaster. It&#39;s one year in jail for Stan Koebel and nine months house arrest for his brother Frank.
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A woman who killed her preacher husband with a shotgun blast to the back as he lay in bed was sentenced Friday to three years in prison, but with time served could be released on probation in a little more than two months.
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By FRANK ELTMAN  CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. - A federal judge refused to grant bail to a millionaire couple accused of keeping two Indonesian women as slaves in their mansion for five years, finding that no conditions would be suitable for house arrest.  Last month, U.S.
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LONG BEACH  In an emotional hearing, a judge on Thursday sentenced Coronado fisherman Stephen Otto Reitz to 26 years to life in prison and derided Reitz&#39;s defense that he was sleepwalking when he killed his girlfriend Eva Marie ...
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The captain and owner of a boat that capsized in the US killing 20 tourists are charged after a 15-month inquiry.
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Two brothers involved in a deadly  tainted-water scandal that killed seven people in the small  Ontario town of Walkerton were sentenced on Monday, one to a  term in jail and the other to house arrest.
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ATTICA, NY -- John Lennon&#39;s killer will stay in prison for at least two years after being denied parole yesterday for the third time because of the &quot;extreme malicious intent&quot; he showed in gunning down the former Beatle in 1980.
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A former policeman who killed his terminally ill wife in an abortive suicide pact is given a suspended sentence.
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Prosecutors dropped charges against a man accused of killing his wife after a daylong excursion on their personal watercraft. He was to be released Monday night.