The man convicted of attacking the-US House speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. David DePape, 44, was found guilty last November of attempted kidnapping of a federal official and assault on the immediate family member of a federal official. Judge Jacqueline...
Man jailed for life for murdering wife by burying her alive in Arizona
An Arizona man who buried his wife alive in a hand-dug grave near their home has been jailed for life. Seven years after the killing, David Pagniano pleaded guilty to murdering his wife before his trial was due to start and allowed a judge to determine his sentence without a...
Michigan: Man charged under new gun storage laws after daughter, 2, shoots herself in the head
A Michigan man has become the first person charged under a new gun storage law after his two-year-old daughter shot herself in the head. Michael Tolbert, 44, was arraigned on Monday on nine felony charges including single counts of first-degree child abuse and violation of Michigan's gun storage law, said...
Man cleared of sexually assaulting child after 35 years in prison
A man who spent 35 years behind bars in the US after being wrongly convicted of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl has been freed from prison thanks to a DNA breakthrough. Louis Wright, now aged 65, had lived near the child's home in Albion, Michigan, at the time of the...