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Las Vegas Strip shooter Omar Talley sentenced to life without parole

A man convicted of fatally shooting two Northern California women near the Las Vegas Strip nearly eight years ago has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Omar Talley, 38, was sentenced Tuesday after being reprimanded by a judge for his lack of remorse, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. According […]

VA Democrats reject GOP Gov. Youngkin’s picks for parole board, vision impaired board

A Democratic-led committee in the Virginia Senate voted Tuesday against confirming Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s selection of Patricia West to head the state’s parole board. Without explanation, the Richmond Times-Dispatch and television station WRIC reported that the Privileges and Elections Committee removed West’s name from a resolution containing a long list of appointees that required […]

Homeless Nevada man sentenced to life without parole for car-ramming murder

A homeless Nevada man was released on parole Monday after admitting to intentionally plowing his Jeep into a crowd serving food outside a Reno homeless center last year, killing one person and seriously injuring two others. He was sentenced to life in prison. David Turner, 58, was arrested shortly after the April 3 attack last […]

Michigan woman gets life without parole for letting disabled son starve to death

A western Michigan woman convicted of murder and child abuse in the starvation death of her disabled 15-year-old son, who weighed only 69 pounds, was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Ta. Shanda Vander Ark, 44, of Norton Shores, who was convicted in the July 6, 2022 death of Timothy […]