The Utah case that shocked readers across the United States reached its grim conclusion as Kouri Richins, the American woman who wrote a children’s book about grief after fatally poisoning her husband, was sentenced to life in prison without parole, according to US media reports. Richins was convicted of murder in March, and Judge Richard Mrazik said the mother of three was "too dangerous to ever be free," the Salt Lake City Tribune reported. Prosecutors said Richins murdered her husband, Eric Richins, in 2022 by giving him…

Nathan Chasing Horse, once known for his role in Dances With Wolves, has been sentenced to life in prison for sexually assaulting Indigenous women and girls. A Nevada judge handed down the sentence on Monday, after a jury had earlier found him guilty on 13 counts, most tied to the sexual assault of three women. Jurors cleared him on several other charges. Chasing Horse, 49, will become eligible for parole after 37 years behind bars. In court, accusers and relatives told Judge Jessica Peterson they are still living with the…

A Russian military court has sentenced four men from Tajikistan and 11 others to life in prison for the Moscow concert hall attack that killed 149 people in March 2024, state news agency TASS reported. The mass shooting and fire at Crocus City Hall, on Moscow’s outskirts, was the deadliest attack in Russia in two decades. The verdicts cap a case that saw 19 people charged in total. The remaining four defendants received prison terms ranging from 19 to 22 years, according to the RIA state news agency. Families of some victims…

South Korea’s Yoon Suk Yeol sentenced to life in prison for insurrection over 2024 martial law move SEOUL — A South Korean court sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to life in prison after finding him guilty of leading an insurrection when he declared martial law in December 2024, a dramatic coda to a crisis that rattled the country’s democracy and revived memories of past military rule. Presiding Judge Ji Gwi-yeon said Yoon deployed troops to the National Assembly in an effort to silence political opponents who had…

Irish man detained by ICE says he fears for his life in Texas facility, as Irish politicians urge action An Irish man who has lived in the United States for nearly two decades says he is in fear for his life after being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and transferred to a detention center in Texas, almost 4,000 kilometers from his home in Boston. Seamus Culleton, originally from Glenmore in Co Kilkenny, was taken into custody by ICE agents in September and later moved to a facility in El Paso, Texas, he…

Irish man detained by ICE in Texas pleads for help, says he fears for his life An Irish man who has lived in the United States for nearly 20 years says he fears for his life after being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and transferred to a facility in El Paso, Texas, almost 4,000 kilometers from his home in Boston. Seamus Culleton, originally from Glenmore, Co Kilkenny, was arrested by ICE agents last September and taken into immigration detention, as first reported by the Irish Times. Speaking from the…

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Ryan Routh, the 59-year-old man found hiding in the bushes along a Florida golf course with a semi-automatic rifle during an attempt to assassinate Donald Trump less than two months before the 2024 election, was sentenced to life in prison in federal court. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon imposed the punishment after a jury in September convicted Routh on five counts, including attempted assassination. “It’s clear to me that you engaged in a premeditated, calculated plot to take a human life,” Cannon…

Tallinn’s Slava Ukrainia restaurant was meant as a refuge for people displaced by the war next door. One winter morning, it became a crime scene. CCTV captured two men outside: one filming, the other setting the blaze that would gut the Ukrainian-themed eatery. Within weeks, a cross-border investigation had tracked the suspects — Moldovan nationals — to Italy. By summer, an Estonian court had convicted one of arson in the interests of a foreign intelligence service. Prosecutors said he worked for Russia’s military…

Japan convicts Abe assassin; Yamagami sentenced to life in Nara court The man who fatally shot former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been found guilty and sentenced to life in prison, more than three years after the broad-daylight assassination stunned a nation with some of the world’s strictest gun laws and triggered a reckoning over politics and religion. Judge Shinichi Tanaka delivered the sentence at a court in the city of Nara. Long lines formed early in the morning as people sought tickets to observe proceedings,…

Venezuela demands US provide 'proof of life' of Maduro Venezuela’s government has demanded that the United States provide “proof of life” of President Nicolás Maduro, an extraordinary request that injected fresh uncertainty into already fraught relations between Caracas and Washington. The call, conveyed in public messaging on Saturday, did not come with detailed context readily available. The unusual phrasing — typically used in cases of abductions or incommunicado detentions — immediately raised questions about what…