JACKSON, Miss. — A judge sentenced two former Mississippi sheriff's deputies from a self-described "Goon Squad" to federal prison Thursday for the torture and abuse of two Black men in a racist ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

An East Valley teenager was sentenced to prison for his role in multiple assaults that were linked to members of the Gilbert ...

Online Arts Journal the Manchester Review is this afternoon publishing an exclusive extract from Jennifer Egan's award-winning novel ‘A Visit from the Goon Squad’. The Novel, acclaimed in the USA but ...

A Colorado cardiologist who was convicted of eight sexual assaults and numerous drug crimes was sentenced to 158 years on Friday. There was applause in a Denver courtroom when the sentence for ...

A North Dakota woman was sentenced to 25 years in prison for poisoning her boyfriend after mistakenly believing he had inherited $30 million and planned to break up with her, officials said. Ina ...

“I think any reasonable judge wouldn’t sentence the president-elect,” said Jill Konviser, a retired New York trial judge. Imposing a sentence now — even a non-prison sentence like home ...

The reasons range from the political firestorm that a sentence could fuel to the new legal defenses he can raise as president-elect and later as president. "The odds of him going to jail are zero ...