Former NHL player Rob Ramage was sentenced to four years in prison for a 2003 crash that killed ex-Chicago Blackhawks player Keith Magnuson. picked by punthe 10 months ago

A 29-year-old Illinois man who admitted to driving from his home near Chicago to Sterling Heights for a planned sexual encounter with a 5-year-old girl was sentenced to 10 years in prison in federal court today.
10 years ? I can think of a much better sentence.... picked by mutil8or 8 months ago

I'd rather be called "The Shoe Bomber". picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

A man who called himself "Papa Pilgrim" and took his family far from civilization to raise them according to his interpretation of the Bible was sentenced to 14 years in prison because, of course, he couldn't keep his hand off his daughter. picked by kamaloo 12 months ago

A Mount Airy man will spend 23 years in prison for fatally shaking his girlfriend’s 8-month-old son to death in February 2006 while trying to stop the infant from crying. picked by punthe 10 months ago

A former teacher was sentenced Tuesday to more than seven years in prison for forcing a Haitian girl to work as a slave for years, each day of the week, in her South Florida home.

Apparently the woman still refuses to admit she did anything wrong. picked by jhordie 6 months ago

Director John McTiernan today was sentenced to four months in federal prison for lying to the FBI about hiring indicted private investigator Anthony Pellicano to wiretap a veteran film producer seven years ago. picked by punthe 1 year ago

A Roman Catholic priest who had sex with two inmates while working as a chaplain at a women's prison was sentenced Monday to two years in federal prison.

Couldn't help but read the priest's name as Inmate picked by barwench 7 months ago

A woman who was drunk when the golf cart she was driving with six children aboard tipped over, injuring five of the children, was sentenced Friday to six months in jail -- to be served on weekend work release -- and three years probation. picked by mutil8or 8 months ago

A woman who boarded the wrong bus on an attempted shopping trip from Thailand to Malaysia has returned home after 25 years. There were some language barriers and mistaken identity issues but hey... she should have been back home in 12 years tops! picked by BrownTrout 2 years ago

A lawyer who stabbed his neighbor to death because he thought the man had molested his 2-year-old daughter was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison for first-degree manslaughter. picked by moe 1 year ago

China houses several early-human (Paleolithic) archaeological sites along the Nihewan Basin near Mongolia, some with artifacts that date back about 1 million years ago. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A cat has returned to its Birmingham home – nine years after disappearing. picked by AutumnLotus 2 months ago

A US soldier has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to murdering three detainees during a raid on a suspected al-Qaeda compound in Iraq last year. picked by teaya21 2 years ago

He went to an asylum for the criminally insane and spent 50 years there. There was just one problem. His father, whom he was thought to have killed, was still alive. picked by Moe 7 months ago

A collection of photos comparing a place about 100 years ago to the same place today picked by muppet 10 months ago

A Marion County judge sentenced a man to at least 38 years in prison for the murder of a woman whose body was found burning under a Salem bridge in 2006. picked by muppet 12 months ago

For the last 31 years, Charles Free has lived an ordinary life. He fell in love, married and raised two children. He spent more than 20 years in the Las Vegas construction business, working his way up to project manager. His family calls him a caring man, a model citizen. picked by dollyllama 9 months ago

Daniel Sharp, a 55-year old homeless man from South Bend, Indiana, pleaded guilty to murdering four men in a dispute over a space heater and was sentenced to 65 years in prison. picked by mitzuzake 1 year ago

A court in N'Djamena, Chad, has sentenced six aid workers from the Zoe's Ark organisation to eight years of hard labour in relation to the kidnapping one hundred and three children and attempting to take them out of the country (mostly into Europe) picked by pocksucket 11 months ago