Bronx Man Gets 40 Years in Egg Shooting
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A Bronx man who shot two 16-year-old boys for throwing an egg at him, killing one and leaving the other permanently injured, was sentenced Tuesday to at least 40 years in prison, prosecutors said.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A man who spent 25 years on Texas death row was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for a 1980 murder after prison officials had to carry him to the death chamber.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A man convicted of murdering a couple who discovered him burglarizing their home in 1999 was put to death by lethal injection on Thursday.
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Subway gunman Bernard Goetz has filmed scenes for a low-budget horror movie in which he plays a nutritionist to vampires &#151; and uses a gun. Goetz, 57, was acquitted of attempted murder after shooting four youths on a subway in 1984.
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A man who served 27 years in prison before his murder conviction was overturned was awarded &#36;1.4 million Wednesday, Maryland's largest award for a wrongful conviction.
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A man accused of being the Phoenix Baseline Killer was sentenced to 438 years in prison Friday for the sexual assaults of two sisters. Mark Goudeau still faces trial for the slayings of eight women and a man in 2005-2006, and faces a possible death sentence if he is convicted. He has pleaded not guilty.
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PITTSBURGH -- The gunman who wounded five Duquesne University basketball players after a school dance last year pleaded guilty Friday and will spend up to 40 years in prison.
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The rapper the Game was sentenced on Monday to 60 days in jail after pleading no contest to felony possession of a firearm in a school zone, The Associated Press reported. Under a plea agreement, two other counts against him were dropped, but his sentence also includes 150 hours of community service and three years of probation. The Game, 28, above, whose real name is Jayceon Terrell Taylor, was accused of pulling a gun on an opposing player during a pickup basketball game at a south Los Angeles school nearly a year ago. ... A three-judge court in Los Angeles has denied an appeal by the R&B singer Ronald Isley of his 37-month federal sentence for tax evasion. Mr. Isley, 66, a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and one of the Isley Brothers, whose hits included âTwist and Shout,â argued that his sentence was unreasonable because of his age and poor health. The appellate court said the trial judge correctly âbalanced the need to sanction Mr. Isleyâs âpathologicalâ tax evasion against the need to accommodate Mr. Isleyâs poor health.â Mr. Isley is in the Federal Correctional Institution in Terre Haute, Ind. His projected release date is April 2010.
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A man with eight previous convictions for collecting birds' eggs is given six months in prison.
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A man was convicted of fatally shooting his half-sister, niece and grandniece in their beds more than five years ago in a feud over an inheritance.
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A man is arrested in connection with the murder of a baby in County Down 40 years ago.
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The man convicted of killing Southern Californiaâs Ryan Francis was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday. Louisiana District Judge Richard Moore III also sentenced the killer, 20-year-old DeAnthony Ford, to 10 years for aggravated battery in a shooting two days before the one that killed Francis.Francis, 19, was in Baton Rouge visiting his mother when he was shot and killed while riding in a car on May 13, 2006. Francis was the starting point guard for U.S.C. his freshman year.
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A man who shot and wounded singer-songwriter Marc Cohn during a botched carjacking last year was sentenced to 36 years in prison.
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The attorney who leaked grand jury testimony of Barry Bonds and other elite athletes investigated for steroid use agreed to a maximum sentence of two years and 9 months in prison, nine months longer than his original plea bargain.
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Three grains of pollen might help solve a 27-year-old murder mystery.
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A 14-year-old boy who was throwing eggs at cars along with two other teenagers was shot and killed by someone who had been in a sport utility vehicle that was hit, police said.
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MIDDLETOWN, Conn. -- A 41-year-old local man has accepted a plea agreement in the beating death of his girlfriend&#39;s stepfather.