Archive for June 26th, 2008
Father convicted in disabled girl’s scalding death
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The father of a disabled girl who died after she was scalded in a bathtub was convicted of murder for failing to seek medical help for her for more than a week.
Shawn Lockett Sr. could face up to 40 years in prison after being […]
OJ: Anybody else wouldn’t be going to court
LAS VEGAS (AP) — O.J. Simpson says an ambitious Nevada prosecutor is pressing a kidnapping and armed robbery case against him that he says even the alleged victims don’t want to pursue.
“If I was anybody else, I wouldn’t be going to court,” Simpson told a reporter for Fargo, N.D., radio station […]
NY millionaire gets prison for enslaving workers
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — A judge has given an 11-year prison sentence to a millionaire who inflicted years of abuse on two Indonesian housekeepers held as virtual slaves in her Long Island mansion.
Varsha Sabhnani (Sahb-NAH’-nee) was convicted with her husband in December on a 12-count federal indictment […]
Court rules in favor of Second Amendment gun right
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting, the justices’ first major pronouncement on gun rights in U.S. history.
The court’s 5-4 ruling struck down the District of Columbia’s 32-year-old ban on handguns as incompatible with gun rights […]
Supreme Court strikes down `millionaire’s amendment’
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has struck down the “millionaire’s amendment” as an unfair way to help opponents of wealthy candidates who spend from their personal fortunes.
The law allows candidates to receive larger contributions when their wealthy opponents spend heavily from their personal fortunes.
The court says by a 5-4 vote that […]
British man gets life in deaths of wife, baby
WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — A British man convicted of shooting to death his 9-month-old baby and wife as they cuddled together in bed showed no reaction Thursday as he was sentenced to two life prison terms without the opportunity for parole.
Neil Entwistle was found guilty Wednesday of two counts of […]