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Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. A son of notorious Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo” pleaded guilty Monday to U.S. drug trafficking charges, months after his brother entered a plea deal. Known locally …
Read More »Prince George man found guilty of 1st-degree murder in stabbing death of young mother
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. A B.C. Supreme Court Justice found 25-year-old Zain Xavier Wood guilty of first-degree murder for fatally stabbing a Prince George, B.C., mother in front of her two …
Read More »Former senator Don Meredith found not guilty in sexual assault case
Politics Former senator Don Meredith was found not guilty in his criminal trial on sexual assault charges on Wednesday. Meredith was facing 3 counts of sexual assault, 1 count of criminal harassment John Paul Tasker · CBC News · Posted: Oct 29, 2025 9:57 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 …
Read More »Former FBI director James Comey pleads not guilty to federal charges
Former FBI director James Comey on Wednesday pleaded not guilty to charges of making false statements and obstructing a congressional investigation. A trial date was set for Jan. 5, 2026. An indictment approved by a grand jury late last month accuses Comey of authorizing an FBI employee to disclose information …
Read More »Former Ontario hospital exec and construction company president guilty of fraud tied to $300M project
A former hospital executive and the ex-president of a major Ontario construction company have been found guilty of fraud for their actions during the bidding process for the $300-million expansion of a downtown Toronto hospital. Vas Georgiou, former chief administrative officer at St. Michael’s Hospital, and John Aquino, ex-president of Bondfield …
Read More »Ontario’s self-styled Crypto King pleads guilty to assaulting woman
Aiden Pleterski, the self-styled Crypto King accused in Ontario of defrauding investors out of tens of millions of dollars, has pleaded guilty in a case of intimate partner violence. Court records reviewed by CBC News show Pleterski, 26, pleaded guilty on July 29 to charges of assault, harassment and entering a …
Read More »Lindsey Coyle gives up Ontario nursing licence in misconduct case, years after guilty plea in patient death
Lindsey Coyle of Fort Frances agreed to give up her licence during a disciplinary hearing Thursday by Ontario’s governing body for nurses, three years after she pleaded guilty in the 2015 death of an elderly patient. Coyle was a registered practical nurse at La Verendrye Hospital. She pleaded guilty in …
Read More »Crown in Hockey Canada sex assault trial for 5 ex-players won’t appeal not guilty rulings
The Crown has decided not to appeal an Ontario Superior Court justice’s July 24 not guilty decisions in the sex assault trial for five former world junior hockey players. Justice Maria Carroccia found Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dubé and Cal Foote not guilty of sexual assaulting a woman in a …
Read More »‘Ketamine Queen’ accused of supplying drugs to actor Matthew Perry to plead guilty
A woman known as the “Ketamine Queen,” charged with selling Matthew Perry the drug that killed him, agreed to plead guilty Monday. Jasveen Sangha becomes the fifth and final defendant charged in the overdose death of the Friends star to strike a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, avoiding a trial that …
Read More »Australian woman found guilty of murder after serving poisonous mushrooms to in-laws for lunch
An Australian woman was on Monday convicted of murdering three elderly relatives of her estranged husband with a meal laced with poisonous mushrooms, in a case that has gripped the country. Erin Patterson, 50, was charged with the murders of her mother-in-law Gail Patterson, father-in-law Donald Patterson and Gail’s sister, …
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