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MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA –The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Runningbear Pettit, 24, of Bunch, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for one cou...
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Troubled windfarm is producing less than half the promised output, sensors are repeatedly tripping offline, and it’s engaged in a legal battle with its turbine manufacturer. Two summers ago , we began...
* Yale Law School is working behind the scenes to convince Yale University to stop trying to cut a deal with the Trump administration. [NY Times]* Latham cleaning up on AI power demands. [Bloomberg La...
MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA –The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Jason Duane Henrichs, age 47, of Checotah, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 70 months in prison fo...
Today is our term-in-review event at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center. The event, titled Executive Power and its Limits , will feature a fireside chat with the ACLU’s Cecillia Wang, who argue...
“The Nancy Pelosi Institute for Representative Democracy, or NPI, will be a hub for research, teaching and civic engagement rooted in a shared commitment to advancing the public good” The funniest par...
DAVENPORT, Iowa – A Fort Madison woman was sentenced on July 8, 2026, to 30 years in federal prison for sexual exploitation of a child and distribution of child pornography.
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA –ALFRED SEYMOUR (“SEYMOUR”), age 19, a resident of Metairie, Louisiana, andDAMION JONES (“JONES”),age 20, a resident of Walker, Louisiana, were indicted on June 11, 2026 for car...
HONOLULU – United States Attorney Ken Sorenson announced that Dylan Tai Dang, 55, of Garden Grove, California, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge Shanlyn A.S. Park to 87 months in...
A Bend, Oregon, man pleaded guilty today after robbing a Bend cannabis dispensary
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA –On July 8, 2026,ASHISH KAPOOR, a/k/a“Romy Kapoor,” (“KAPOOR”)age 28, a national of India, was sentenced for Transportation of Child Pornography, and Possession of Child Pornogr...
Four Columbian nationals unlawfully residing in the United States were sentenced to federal prison yesterday for a multi-state burglary conspiracy that targeted Asian American business owners in Orego...
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA–ANDRE BELL (“BELL”), age 38, a resident of New Orleans, was sentenced on July 8, 2026 by United States District Judge Greg G. Guidry to 78 months’ imprisonment, 3 years of super...
LAS VEGAS– A felon with multiple prior convictions made his initial appearance in court today for allegedly possessing stolen firearms and suppressors.
A Long Beach man was sentenced today to 318 months in federal prison for committing armed robberies of three Los Angeles County businesses in September 2023, a crime spree that ended in a high-speed p...
A San Francisco Bay Area man was sentenced today to 12 months and a day in federal prison for stealing approximately rare and historical Chinese manuscripts from the UCLA library system.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit yesterday denied a petition for review in a legal challenge to the Maritime Administration’s issuance of a deepwater port license to Delfin LNG. In deny...
JASON GIBSON, 46, of Ledyard, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Omar A. Williams in Hartford to 120 months of imprisonment and 20 years of supervised release for possession of child pornograp...