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Judge will consider new trial for Karmelo Anthony in Texas track meet killing 0
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- August 20, 2026
McKINNEY, Texas — A judge on Thursday will consider whether to grant Texas teenager Karmelo Anthony a new trial following his murder conviction earlier this summer in the stabbing death of a 17-year-old athlete at a high school track meet. In a legal victory for Anthony, the judge who presided over his trial was removed
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Texas teen convicted in fatal stabbing at track meet seeks a new trial and judge 0
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- August 19, 2026
DALLAS — A Texas teenager convicted of fatally stabbing a 17-year-old athlete at a high school track meet is arguing that a judge did not fairly preside over the high-profile case and is asking for a new trial. Karmelo Anthony, now 19, was convicted of murder and sentenced to 35 years in prison after a
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Former CEO of Citigroup sentenced to 30 years in prison for sexual crimes 0
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- July 29, 2026
NEW YORK — A Harvard-educated former managing director of Citigroup Inc. who blamed autism for his actions was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison for sex crimes that prosecutors say occurred over a 10-year period. Edward Gene Smith, 50, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court by Judge Paul A. Engelmayer after he pleaded guilty
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Supreme Court litigator jailed in tax evasion case after betting on poker 0
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- July 25, 2026
WASHINGTON– A prominent Supreme Court litigator was sentenced Friday to six years in prison for evading a multimillion-dollar tax debt to the IRS and engaging in mortgage fraud, a case that shed light on his secret lifestyle as a high-stakes poker player and featured trial testimony from a Hollywood movie star. Thomas Goldstein, who also
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Cuban artist and dissident exiled from the country after 5 years in prison arrives in the United States.0
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- July 19, 2026
MIAMI– A famous Cuban dissident artist and musician, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, arrived in Miami on Saturday after being released from a five-year prison sentence on the condition that he leave his country. Alcántara, 38, was greeted at the airport by a crowd that cheered, sang and raised their phones in the air to take
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Man goes to prison for shooting ex-girlfriend to death while pushing a baby’s stroller 0
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- July 14, 2026
NEW YORK — A New York man who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend while she pushed their baby in a stroller was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years to life in prison, prosecutors said. A jury convicted Isaac Argro in May of the 2022 murder of Azsia Johnson. Prosecutors said Argro shot her to death
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