William Toye and Beryl Ann Toye, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Robert E. Lucky, Jr., of New Orleans, were indicted for selling non-authentic paintings falsely attributed to Clementine Hunter.
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The adorable little girl abandoned at a Delaware gas station this week may be the child of a woman whose charred body was found in Rockland County, officials said Thursday.
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Francisco Morales Rodriguez, of Chico, California, was convicted of possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Walter Taylor, of Baltimore, Maryland, was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin.
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Nicole Stepney Turner, of Baltimore, Maryland, was sentenced to two years in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for embezzlement from a health care benefit program.
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Raymond Jackson, of Sacaton, Arizona, was sentenced to 23 years in prison for killing a man by shooting him in the chest following an argument.
Read about our Top Ten news stories of the week, including the guilty plea of Najibullah Zazi to terrorism charges; the superseding indictment returned against two individuals for their alleged roles in Zazi’s plot to attack the New York subway system; and the guilty plea of a New Orleans police officer to conspiring to cover up a police-involved shooting that occurred in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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Hugo Santamaria, of Monroe, North Carolina, was sentenced in Charleston, West Virginia to 15 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute marijuana and two counts of witness intimidation.
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Warren Joseph Annunziata, of Roslyn Heights, New York, an executive of Local 91 of the United Craft and Industrial Workers’ Union (Local 91), was arrested on an indictment charging him with extortion and receiving unlawful labor payments in violation of the Taft-Hartley Act, which prohibits payments from regulated industries to union officials.
Alicia Bell, of Wichita, Kansas, pled guilty to one count of bribery, admitting that while working as a bondsman agent from 2005 to 2008, she paid Wichita city employee and co-defendant Kaylene J. Pottorff to alter data in the computerized records system of the Wichita Municipal Court.
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