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Adnan Syed, the accused murderer who became the subject of the widely popular podcast “Serial,” has had his sentence for the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee reduced to time served. Baltimore City Circuit ...

In English, our sentences usually operate using a similar pattern: subject, verb, then object. The nice part about this type of structure is that it lets your reader easily know who is doing the ...

“It’s very upsetting, but very unsurprising,” Roher tells Deadline. “The regime has taken the approach of what I like to call ‘boiling the frog.’ Instead of just throwing a life sentence at Navalny ...

Baltimore prosecutors asked a Maryland magistrate to vacate the judgment Monday afternoon in the case of Adnan Syed, whose decades-old murder conviction garnered renewed interest after it was featured ...

BALTIMORE — Adnan Syed, whose case amassed a worldwide following of “Serial” podcast listeners, will remain free — even though his murder conviction still stands, a Baltimore judge ruled on Thursday.

TEXARKANA, Texas (AP) — A Texas appeals court has upheld the 99-year prison sentence given to a mortician who was the subject of the 2011 film “Bernie.” The 6th Texas Court of Appeals in Texarkana on ...

Real estate heir Robert Durst will serve seven years and one month in prison on a weapons charge after a federal judge approved a plea deal on Wednesday, the Associated Press reports. U.S. District ...

A man convicted of rape and murder when he was a teenager, and whose story was documented in the 2015 Netflix series “Making a Murderer,” asked Wisconsin’s governor for a pardon or commutation of his ...

Erin Brunett, 4, and her 6-year-old sister were the subjects of an Amber Alert in June 2024 after they were kidnapped from ...

The music mogul’s lawyers said in a filing that their incarcerated client deserves to be let go soon after his Oct. 3 ...