Christian Dedmon received the longest prison term out of the ex-"Goon Squad" officers on Wednesday. Dedmon, who devised the scheme to cover up the involved officers' misconduct, was sentenced to ...

A federal judge on Thursday sentenced the last two of six White ex-law enforcement officers in Mississippi to lengthy prison terms for their torture of two Black men last year, a racist assault ...

During sentencing, prosecutors showed attack videos of Tyler Freeman and played jail phone calls in which he planned revenge ...

Judge Paul Friedman of the DC District Court, which has sentenced hundreds of January 6 rioters, told Duong at the court hearing Tuesday morning he believed he wouldn’t commit a crime again.

The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into a Mississippi sheriff's department whose officers tortured two Black men in a racist attack that included beatings, repeated use ...

The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they ...

Springfield, Mo. — A Missouri woman has been sentenced to two life terms in prison for killing a pregnant Arkansas woman and trying to pass off the dead woman's fetus as her own stillborn baby.

Divorced mom of two Hailey Clifton-Carmack, 26, was sentenced Friday to four years in prison — but with most of it being suspended if she completes a rehabilitation program for sex offenders ...

SALINAS, Calif. - Five members of the self-proclaimed "Murder Squad" crew were sentenced to a combined total of 161 years in prison for their parts in dozens of shootings, both fatal and nonfatal ...