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A woman who conspired with a former postal worker to steal and alter ballots during the 2024 general election was sentenced ...

A former corrections officer was sentenced to a deferred judgment and 12 months of probation for assault in the second degree ...

An off-duty Pennsylvania police officer who struck a bystander in the chest and knocked him to the ground as the man tried to ...

Vinyard was a bystander at the scene on Nov. 6, 2022, when he approached an officer about potential evidence. Hawk, who was ...

A man who is accused of setting a San Joaquin County probation officer on fire made his first appearance in court Monday. Adam Bud Lopez was arraigned on attempted murder and arson charges involving ...

Pennsylvania's attorney general says Kenneth Vinyard "was not a threat to anyone at the scene of this shooting" when the ...

Just two weeks after being sentenced to 10 years for possession of child pornography, a former federal probation officer has ...

An officer, who was off-duty at the time of a shooting at a Pennsylvania Walmart in 2022, pleaded guilty in the death of an innocent bystander, Attorney General Dave ...

A former Beaver County police officer was sentenced to five years of probation after pleading guilty to involuntary ...

A notorious exotic animal dealer who sold a jaguar cub in Riverside was sentenced to six months' probation Monday, federal prosecutors said.

Investigators say Johnley Jorcilien paid kickbacks and bought a luxury car with fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program loans.