ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — The treasurer of a Rockford-area gymnastics booster club has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $34,000. Shondra Mclarty, 55, of Rockton, admitted as part of a plea agreement in federal court that she stole money from the Tumbling and Acro Boosters Club between 2023 and 2024. According to court records, board…
The founder of a Texas megachurch who resigned last year after a woman in Oklahoma accused the pastor of sexually abusing her in the 1980s pleaded guilty Thursday to five counts of lewd and indecent acts with a child, authorities said. Robert Preston Morris, 64, entered the pleas before a judge in Oklahoma’s Osage County…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A Republican member of the South Carolina House who prosecutors say used the screen name “joebidennnn69” agreed Friday to plead guilty to distributing sexual abuse material involving children. RJ May signed court papers to change his plea a few days after a hearing where prosecutors laid out how they would present…
Five partially completed homes in the Laurel Canyon community that have been the subject of two decades of legal battles will be torn down under a plea agreement with the homes’ developers, Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto announced in a statement. The unfinished, three-story, 5,000-square-foot single-family homes along N. Woodstock Road near Mulholland…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman known as the “Ketamine Queen,” charged with selling Matthew Perry the drug that killed him, agreed to plead guilty Monday. Jasveen Sangha becomes the fifth and final defendant charged in the overdose death of the “Friends” star to strike a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, avoiding a trial that…
“How fair is it to a family to be driving down the road and have juveniles hanging out the windows, shooting off automatic weapons? That’s not fair,” said Bernalillo County District Attorney Sam Bregman.Bregman has been leading the charge to change the New Mexico Children’s Code, so penalties are tougher on juvenile offenders.One way he…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The second of two defendants from Nevada who were charged in Minnesota with conspiracy to commit voter registration fraud pleaded guilty Tuesday, federal prosecutors announced. Ronnie Williams, 58, entered his plea before U.S. District Judge Laura Provinzino in St. Paul. Court records don’t say whether there was a formal plea agreement. “Free…
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A Mexican man who prosecutors say briefly evaded arrest with the help of a Wisconsin judge has agreed to plead guilty to illegally entering the United States. Federal prosecutors in Milwaukee on Monday filed a plea agreement with Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, 31, resolving an illegal reentry charge filed against him after federal…