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North Dakota lawmaker sentenced after pleading guilty to drunken driving

Republican Representative Nico Rios of North Dakota has been sentenced to nearly a year of unsupervised probation for drunk driving. Rios pleaded guilty on January 8 and was sentenced to a 10-day suspended jail sentence, mandatory evaluation, and a victim impact commission. He faced growing calls for his resignation from within his own party, including […]

‘Suitcase Killer’ Heather Mack sentenced to 26 years for mom’s murder

“Suitcase Killer” Heather Mack was sentenced Wednesday to 26 years in prison in a Chicago court. It's been nearly 10 years since she helped bludgeon her mother to death during her luxury vacation in Bali. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly charged Mack, 28, with conspiring with her then-boyfriend to murder Sheila von Wiese-Mack in 2014 […]