Ex-State Senator Resumes His Jail Sentence
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Former State Senator Guy J. Velella surrendered to the authorities today to resume serving a yearlong jail sentence for bribery.
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The hotly contested race to fill Florida's open U.S. Senate seat has been dominated by someone who is not running, an imprisoned former professor awaiting trial on charges of raising funds for Palestinian suicide bombers.
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A congressman who brought a loaded gun into Louisville International Airport received a 60-day jail sentence, but will not have to serve it unless he has other criminal troubles during the next two years.
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Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan,   promoted as a Nobel Peace Prize candidate for his vigorous   opposition to capital punishment, was sentenced to 6 1/2 years   in prison on Wednesday for corrupt dealings while in office.
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Saddam-era minister Tariq Aziz returns to jail near the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, after suffering a fall.
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A former Alaska lawmaker accused of getting thousands of dollars out of a corrections-company consultant in exchange for his help in the Legislature was convicted of bribery Monday.
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A Republican U.S. senator  who admitted to &quot;serious sin&quot; after he was linked last week to  a Washington escort service apologized for the sex scandal on  Monday, but said he will go back to work.
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Mississippi's junior Senator returns to leadership--and to wars with Democrats and the White House
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A man whose convictions in two 1985 slayings were overturned has been released from prison after prosecutors decided against retrying him.
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A state senator used foul language in a talk to high school students in his district, but defended himself by saying he was just repeating what some students wrote about him on a Web site.
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SANFORD, Fla. - A convicted felon was mistakenly released from state prison after serving only about half of his sentence on drugs and weapons charges. He was free 16 days before corrections officials realized their error and put him back behind bars.
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John Kerry returned to the Senate on Tuesday for the first time since the election and spent much of the day there the same way he has spent much of the last 20 years - on his own.
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A Basque separatist rebel convicted in 25 deaths was returned to prison Wednesday, after recuperating in a hospital from a hunger strike, officials said.
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The former U.S. Air Force arms buyer at the center of the biggest Pentagon contracting scandal since the 1980s began a nine-month sentence at a women's prison in Florida this week, prison officials said Tuesday.
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The former sheriff of a struggling, rural county was sentenced Tuesday to eight months in prison for lying to authorities about a scheme to resell drugs and guns seized from criminals.
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The state Senate president pleaded guilty Thursday and apologized for his driving drunk arrest in the hours after the Legislature finished its work for the year.
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Lionel Tate, the teenager who got a second chance after he beat and stomped a 6-year-old girl to death, was sent back to prison for 30 years Thursday for gun possession.