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Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A doctor sentenced to 30 months in prison for selling ketamine to Matthew Perry is appealling …
Read More »‘We’re still a mess’: N.S. man who lost 3 loved ones in crash speaks out over driver’s sentence
The day of Oct. 21, 2023, started out well for Adam Gabriel and his family. Gabriel, then a resident of Springhill, N.S., had driven to the Annapolis Valley for the day with his wife, Amanda, to see their son play in an Acadia Axemen university football game. By the time …
Read More »South Korea’s ex-president Yoon receives life sentence for imposing martial law
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to life in prison for his brief …
Read More »First Nation chief pushes for more firefighting support as man awaits sentence in death of woman, 4 children
Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. WARNING: This story contains disturbing details. Nearly seven years since a woman and four children died …
Read More »Iran adds 7 more years to sentence of jailed Nobel Peace laureate, supporters say
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Iran sentenced Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to over seven more years in prison after …
Read More »Iran protester will not be given death sentence, state media reports
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Earlier this week, rights organization Hengaw reported that 26-year-old Essam Soltani, arrested in connection with protests …
Read More »After fleeing to U.K. twice, Calgary woman gets 4-year prison sentence for $2-million fraud
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A judge gave a four year, two-month sentence Friday to a Calgary woman who twice fled …
Read More »Bolsonaro detained by police ahead of prison sentence
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was taken into federal police custody on Saturday before a planned supporters’ vigil near his home, ending months of house arrest as …
Read More »Trump commutes sentence for ex-lawmaker George Santos
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday commuted the more than seven-year prison sentence of former U.S. representative George Santos for fraud and identity theft, ordering his immediate release. Santos, who was expelled from Congress after a brief, scandal-plagued tenure, had pleaded guilty to inflating fundraising figures and falsifying donor names to secure Republican Party financial …
Read More »Parole denied for Erik Menendez despite reduced sentence in parents’ 1989 murders
Erik Menendez was denied parole Thursday after serving decades in prison for murdering his parents with his older brother in 1989. A panel of California commissioners denied Menendez parole for three years, after which he will be eligible again, in a case that continues to fascinate the public. A parole …
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