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Jun 15 2023
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Montana man who set out on violent mission to rid town of LGBTQ people gets 18-year sentence
A man who shot up a woman's home with an AK-style rifle before setting out to rid his tiny Montana community of its LGBTQ+ residents has been sentenced to 18 years in federal prison. John Russell Howald was convicted by a federal jury in February of a hate crime for firing at the woman, who was a known lesbian, and targeting other LGBTQ residents in Basin, Montana. The sentence handed down by
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Jun 15 2023
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Montana Man Sentenced Over 'Mission' To Kill Local LGBTQ Community
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — A southwestern Montana man has been sentenced to 18 years in federal prison after being convicted of a hate crime and firearms charges for threatening a woman with violent, homophobic slurs and shooting at her house with an AK-style rifle as part of a self-described “mission” to rid a small town of its LGBTQ community. “Hate crimes are especially pernicious because
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Apr 10 2023
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Alex Murdaugh relocated to McCormick Correctional Institution
(NewsNation) — Convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh has been moved to McCormick Correctional Institution on the Georgia-South Carolina border, NewsNation has exclusively learned. The prison includes both a general population wing and a “special management” wing for inmates who may be in protective custody, according to prisonpro.com. The South Carolina Department of Corrections has declined to
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Jun 22 2023
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Va. mom of 6-year-old who shot teacher will cite Hunter Biden’s plea deal for leniency, lawyer says
A lawyer for a Virginia woman facing prison time for lying on her federal gun purchase application said Thursday he’ll cite Hunter Biden’s “sweetheart” plea deal as a reason to reduce her looming sentence. “In our sentencing memo, we will surely raise the inconsistency in the government’s approach to a vulnerable and scared very young mother, who does not have a privileged background and
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Jun 14 2023
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Man who wanted to kill gay people when he opened fire in Montana town sentenced to 18 years
A Montana man who fired an AK-style rifle at the home of a lesbian woman and said he wanted to “get rid of” gay people in his small town was sentenced to 18 years in prison Tuesday, prosecutors said. John Howald, 46, opened fire at the woman’s home in Basin in March 2020 and set off to shoot others before he was interrupted by a sheriff’s deputy, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of
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Jun 14 2023
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Former Colstrip cop gets 8 years for coercing girl to send him illicit photos
A former Colstrip Police officer who admitted to directing a minor girl to send him sexually explicit pictures and videos of herself was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release. Hossein Cristiano Luigi Borhan, 49, of Billings, pleaded guilty in February to information charging him with receipt of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Jesse
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Jun 21 2023
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Former FBI worker sentenced for illegally holding classified materials
As President Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump come under scrutiny for their handling of state secrets, a former FBI analyst has gotten a nearly four-year sentence for illegally possessing hundreds of classified documents. Kendra Kingsbury of Garden City, Kansas, was sentenced Wednesday to three years and 10 months in federal prison in the decision handed down by U.S. District Judge
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Jun 14 2023
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Navy Master at Arms in Virginia Beach Sentenced for Dealing Illegal Machine Guns
A Virginia Beach man was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in prison for possessing and selling unregistered machine guns and possessing unregistered destructive devices. According to court records and evidence presented at trial, between approximately October 2021 and April 2022, Patrick Tate Adamiak, 28, was obtaining illegal machine guns that were not registered and he was selling these
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Aug 03 2023
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Pence’s revenge: VP turns star witness against Trump in Jan. 6 case
Former President Donald Trump once called his vice president a “wimp” and the “p-word” for refusing to block Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s presidential victory.
Now Mike Pence has turned against Mr. Trump and become a star witness in a federal criminal case that could land the ex-president in prison for decades.
Special counsel Jack Smith’s four-count indictment of Mr.
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Jun 18 2023
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ACLU Laments Convicted Rapist And Murderer Never Got Gender-Affirmating Care Before Execution
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) raised eyebrows with a social media post Friday which bemoaned a serial rapist and murderer not receiving a “gender-affirming” surgery prior to his execution. The ACLU sympathetically tweeted on behalf of Duane Owen, claiming he was the victim of “enormous suffering” prior to his execution. Owen was in prison for over 30 years for crimes committed in
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