A former Wiggins businessman has been sentenced to serve 12 years in prison for defrauding south Mississippi homeowners who had hired him to fix their properties after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. Harrison County Circuit Judge John Gargiulo sentenced 53-year-old …
The president of a now-defunct Mercer County, N.J., construction company was sentenced to eight years in state prison for stealing more than $450,000, according to Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa. New Jersey’s AG’s office reported that Herlindo Garcia-Merlos, 49, provided …
The driver of a Hummer that struck down and killed a Southern California bicyclist has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. Fifty-year-old Satnam Singh, the owner of a Santa Paula liquor store, pleaded guilty last month to …
A Minnesota man made a tearful plea for leniency before a judge sentenced him to just over four years in prison for a crash that killed two people, including a woman with whom he allegedly was having sex while driving. …
A Duluth, Minn., building contractor convicted of vandalizing a client’s duplex over a billing fight has been sentenced to almost seven years in prison. A jury convicted 35-year-old Adam Leroy Seavey of first-degree arson. He was sentenced Friday to the …
A West Fargo, N.D., man has pleaded guilty to his 14th drunken driving charge and been sent to prison. Sixty-year-old Kevin Tegtmeier was sentenced to four years behind bars, a year less than the maximum possible term requested by prosecutors. …
One of two Fargo, N.D., men accused of burglarizing home construction sites has been sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to more than 20 counts of conspiracy. The Forum newspaper reports that 35-year-old Jason Leines also must …
A former central New York mail carrier has been sentenced to more than a year in prison and ordered to pay back the more than $325,000 in workers compensation funds she stole from the federal government. The U.S. Attorney’s Office …
A Billings, Mont., businessman has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for his role in an insurance fraud scheme. The U.S. attorney’s office says Robert Shane Peterson was sentenced on July 12 after earlier pleading guilty to a federal …
The wife of former Minnesota Viking Joe Senser was sentenced Monday to almost four years in prison in a hit-and-run crash that killed a Thai restaurant chef. An attorney for Amy Senser had sought probation, saying she was “deeply remorseful” …