24 h. ago Bryan Kohberger admits to killing 4 Idaho students, motive remains unclear

BOISE, Idaho — A criminal justice student who avoided a potential death sentence by pleading guilty Wednesday to the brutal stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students carefully planned the attack for months and took multiple steps to cover his tracks, the lead prosecutor said. Bryan Kohberger, who was a graduate student at nearby […]

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28 h. ago Magical Midways Inc. Pleads Guilty to Safety Maintenance Violation

Ontario, July 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Toronto, ON, July 2, 2025 – Magical Midways Inc. has pleaded guilty to one count of violating the Technical Standards and Safety Act, following a serious safety incident involving one of its amusement rides in Campbellford, Ontario. The Ontario Court has imposed a fine of $30,000, along with […]

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33 h. ago University of Idaho murder suspect due in court to plead guilty

The deal drew mixed reactions from the victims' families, ranging from support to outrage that the suspect in the stabbings would live.

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58 h. ago Canadian World Bank employee jailed in sickening child pornography probe

A Canadian employee of the World Bank in Washington has been sent to a U.S. prison for four years after he was busted for distributing twisted child pornography involving babies. Matthew Norman Ballek, 32, of Saskatchewan, was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court to 46 months in federal prison. Ballek pleaded guilty in October in […]

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69 h. ago Kohberger to plead guilty to killing 4 University of Idaho students: Reports

BOISE, Idaho — Bryan Kohberger has agreed to plead guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students as part of a deal with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty, multiple media outlets reported Monday. The news was delivered to families of the victims in a letter from prosecutors, according to ABC News. A change of […]

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7 d. ago Violent prowler who targeted north Edmonton women admits to sexual assault, stealing underwear

A man has admitted to terrorizing women in a north Edmonton neighbourhood two years ago, pleading guilty to crimes including sexually assaulting a stranger at knifepoint.

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8 d. ago Canadian conman flees U.S. sentencing after learning how long his prison term might be

Antonio Palazzolo kept pulling an almost identical fraud as the one he pleaded guilty to — after he was allowed to remain free in Canada pending sentencing, U.S. prosecutors said

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1 week ago Chris Brown pleads not guilty to a charge that he beat and injured a music producer in London

LONDON — Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown pleaded not guilty Friday to a charge related to the serious beating of a music producer with a bottle in a London nightclub in 2023.  Brown, 36, wearing a blue suit, white shirt and black-rimmed glasses, was arraigned in London’s Southwark Crown Court on one count of attempting to […]

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2 w. ago Nova Scotia woman who killed daughter granted day passes from prison, but not parole

Boudreau was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the Jan. 27, 2008, death of Karissa Boudreau, after pleading guilty to second-degree murder for strangling her only child.

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2 w. ago Company pleads guilty to workplace safety charge in Edmonton worker’s smokehouse death

The company was charged after the death in March 2023.

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2 w. ago N.S. youth pleads guilty to one of 33 charges in case alleging high school threats

Investigators allege the teenager threatened three people, and possessed weapons such as multiple rifles, shotguns and air guns, as well as brass knuckles and a knife.

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2 w. ago Doctor who supplied ketamine to Perry, called him ‘moron’ will plead guilty

LOS ANGELES — A doctor charged with giving Matthew Perry ketamine in the month leading up to the Friends star’s overdose death has agreed to plead guilty, authorities said Monday. Dr. Salvador Plasencia has agreed to plead guilty to four counts of distribution of ketamine, federal prosecutors said in a statement. They said the plea carries […]

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2 w. ago Matthew Perry death: 2nd doctor to plead guilty to supplying ketamine

Dr. Salvador Plasencia has agreed to plead guilty to four counts of distribution of ketamine, which the 'Friends' actor fatally overdosed on in 2023, federal prosecutors said.

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2 w. ago Worker at Toronto supervised injection site sentenced in connection with fatal shooting

The former harm reduction worker, who pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact to the fatal shooting of woman Karoline Huebner-Makarat, was given a conditional sentence.

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2 w. ago Former 911 operator pleads guilty to provincial offences in connection with data breaches

Admits to collecting personal information she had accessed in three databases

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2 w. ago HUNTER: Why was accused sex worker killer let out of prison?

Christopher Dunlop pleaded guilty to manslaughter in a 2009 death and is now on trial for the 2023 murder of a woman

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2 w. ago Evidence closed at Quebec truck attack trial, jury to hear final arguments next week

Forty-year-old Steeve Gagnon has pleaded not guilty to five charges including three counts of first-degree murder.

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2 w. ago Kilmar Abrego Garcia pleads not guilty to human smuggling charges

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Kilmar Abrego Garci pleaded not guilty to human smuggling charges during an arraignment in federal court in Tennessee on Friday. Abrego Garcia is a citizen of El Salvador who had been living legally in the United States before he was wrongfully deported in March. His case has become a rallying point […]

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2 w. ago Unlicensed drunk driver who caused Toronto fatal collision in 2023 pleads guilty

Inside a fourth-floor courtroom on Thursday, a 40-year-old Toronto woman pleaded guilty to an impaired driving causing death charge as the victim's family watched on.

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2 w. ago MANDEL: Unlicenced speeding driver with almost triple the legal limit pleads guilty in fatal crash

It was a triple header of selfishness and stupidity: Tara MacMunn was unlicensed, drunk and speeding when she slammed into Hazela Baksh’s car on Albion Rd. in a fatal crash that should never have happened. Except that MacMunn, 38 at the time, was driving with almost triple the legal amount of alcohol in her system […]

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